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Article snippet: Republicans on the House Budget Committee are pushing forward with a new budget resolution this year designed largely to rein in spending on entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, according to the panel’s chairman. MORE (R-Ark.) said Wednesday, “and it's now the Congress’s time to act.” Womack, who captured the Budget gavel just last month, acknowledged that the sweeping fiscal agreement enacted last week — which solidifies discretionary spending levels over the next two years — essentially precludes the need for Congress to enact a new budget governing domestic programs for 2019. He also conceded that the Senate, for that very reason, is likely to skip the budget process this year altogether. But citing skyrocketing deficit spending, Womack said he wants his committee to step in with a new budget blueprint — if only as a symbolic gesture — “to put America on a different glide path, from a fiscal perspective.” “We've got to have an opportunity to look at these from top to bottom, and then come up with what we believe are solutions that can be politically doable,” Womack told Bloomberg Television. “That's what the Budget Committee process will begin to do.” That effort, Womack suggested, will focus heavily on the entitlement side of the ledger, which was largely disregarded in the newly passed budget deal that Trump signed into law on Friday. “I think it’s fundamental,” Womack said of entitlement reform. “Seventy-eight percent of what we s... Link to the full article to read more