
House Republicans released a budget plan for fiscal year 2015 and beyond that keeps defense spending with partial sequester in ’15 but eliminates it completely in FY ’16 and beyond–at the expense of domestic spending, which would see its sequestration cuts more than doubled. The Republicans’ budget blueprint document, released Tuesday, notes that “the first job of the federal government is to protect the country from threats at home and abroad,” and therefore restores “defense budgets to the levels dictated…