The Obama administration on Monday said the president’s senior advisers would recommend a veto of the House version of the FY ’14 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2217) if the House doesn’t establish a budget framework for all of the appropriations bills.
The Statement of Administration Policy on the homeland security bill warns that any appropriations bills that pass without a larger budget framework would be vetoed.
“Unless this bill passes the Congress in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery and enables sufficient investments in education, infrastructure, innovation and national security for our economy to compete in the future, the President’s senior advisers would recommend that he veto H.R. 2217 and any other legislation that implements the House Republican Budget framework.”
The House budget framework is built around a non-binding resolution crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, which would keep in place hundreds of billions of dollars in planned cuts to federal spending in the next 10 years as a result of sequestration.
The House is set to consider the $38.9 billion Homeland Security Appropriations Bill this week.