Story highlights Republicans' primary focus of the 2018 budget is to use It as a vehicle for tax reform

The House Budget committee is planning to consider the proposal on Wednesday

Washington (CNN) After months of infighting, House Republicans are unveiling a budget resolution Tuesday that would dramatically reshape the federal government, requiring more than $200 billion in cuts to mandatory programs and set the path for a major overhaul of the tax code.

The document is essentially a GOP wish list with many of the policies and reforms Republicans have pushed for years like repealing Obamacare, rolling back financial regulations, paring back social welfare programs and getting rid of some of the Obama Administration's top priorities.

Even before the budget panel set the topline numbers for the 2018 fiscal year, the appropriations committee already crafted spending bills that designated $621 billion for defense spending and $511 billion for non-military domestic programs.

But the primary legislative focus of the 2018 budget is to use It as a vehicle for changing taxes. As they did with their Obamacare repeal plan in the 2017 budget, GOP leaders are employing a a budget tool called "reconciliation" to move tax legislation through the Senate with a simple majority.

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus pressed House Speaker Paul Ryan and other leaders to include hundreds of billions of mandatory spending cuts in the proposal, which balances the federal budget in ten years.

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