"But Murray’s filing calls for $1.160 trillion in discretionary spending, $19 billion more than the level called for in the budget filed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Aides said Ryan’s filing reflects the true spending baseline for 2015 under the Murray-Ryan agreement, and that Murray’s new plan is higher.
“I’m disappointed that Senate Democrats have chosen to make yet another end-run around the Murray-Ryan spending limits in an effort to spend $19 billion more this year than we agreed to,” Sessions said in a statement on Tuesday. “While House Budget Chairman Ryan filed spending enforcement numbers at the same level as the CBO baseline, Senate Budget Chairman Murray did not."
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