House set to defeat bipartisan budget plan

WASHINGTON — The House was poised Wednes­day to reject a bipar­ti­san bud­get plan mix­ing tax increases with spend­ing cuts across the bud­get to wring $4 tril­lion from the bud­get deficit over the com­ing decade, paving the way for Repub­li­cans to mus­cle through on Thurs­day a strin­gent GOP bud­get that blends big cuts to safety-net pro­grams for the poor with a plan to dra­mat­i­cally over­haul Medicare.