House approves Republican deficit-cutting plan

WASHINGTON — A divided House approved a $3.6 tril­lion Repub­li­can bud­get on Thurs­day recast­ing Medicare and impos­ing sweep­ing cuts in domes­tic pro­grams, cap­ping a bat­tle that gave both polit­i­cal par­ties a campaign-season stage to spot­light their war­ring deficit-cutting priorities.