On Thursday, President Biden released his proposed budget for the upcoming year, a document amounting to a messaging exercise in policy priorities. However, the Republican-controlled House is likely to reject the plan - setting in motion a complicated and tense congressional budget process that will test the boundaries of both parties.

The president's spending priorities include investing $1.4 billion in Social Security, instituting a $35 cap on insulin prices, quadrupling the stock buyback tax, and freeing community college tuition. Republicans have already scoffed at these proposals, instead prioritizing their own plan of balancing the budget in 10 years without cuts to Medicare, Social Security, or military spending. Whether they can accomplish such a goal and keep their own members in line remains to be seen.

For this reason, Biden and Senate Democrats are openly challenging House Republicans to put forth their own spending blueprint first - a plan not easily achieved.