House Republicans Slice Budget

House Republicans are proposing to cut $32 billion dollars from agency budgets over the next few months. Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan says the plan would cap total appropriations at just over one trillion dollars -- which is $74 billion less than what the president requested for 2011. The measure would bring non-security discretionary spending back to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, as House Republicans called for in their Pledge to America. The White House says the GOP effort could cause widespread furloughs of federal employees, force vulnerable people off subsidized housing, reduce services in national parks and mean less aid to schools and police and fire departments. Ryan plans to file the budget resolution next Tuesday.