Obama's final budget plan given short shrift by GOP - CNNPolitics.com www.cnn.com/2016/02/09/politics/obama-budget-republicans/index.html?sr=fbnewday021016obama-budget-republicans1205AMVODtopLink&linkId=21119822 The annual budget plan -- nearly always deemed "dead on arrival" to the Republican-controlled Congress -- appeared particularly lifeless this year: Republicans said before the document even arrived they would break the long precedent of hearing from the President's budget chief as they draft their own fiscal blueprint.