Paul Ryan Hosts Budget Meeting With House Freedom Caucus. It Didn’t Go Well.

*Fifty-four million Latinos in the U.S. have a stake in the outcome of this meeting. Twenty-five members of the House Freedom Caucus – the same caucus that pressed for sequestration – say they want deeper cuts to the proposed federal budget. This is important because this small group of legislators can paralyze government if they don’t get their way, and they haven’t said what they would cut from the budget to make them happy. Latinos will be affected. VL

By Matt Fuller, Huffington Post Politics

WASHINGTON — With the House Republican budget facing increasingly long odds, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) met with more than 25 members of the Freedom Caucus late Tuesday to try to persuade the conservative group to support the 2017 spending plan.

Over beer, chips, soda and, according to one caucus member who asked to remain anonymous to discuss the private meeting, “all the normal kinds of bagged munchies that you’re not supposed to eat,” Ryan hosted caucus members around a large conference table in his office to tell them that, if Republicans want to pass appropriations bills this year, they have to accept the budget number that leaders from both parties agreed to at the end of October.

“There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that I’ll vote for that,” caucus member Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) told The Huffington Post after the meeting.

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