(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House adopted a budget plan that would allow congressionalRepublicans to bypass Democrats and send President Barack Obama abill to repeal his landmark health care law.

The House adopted the budget measure 226-197 Thursday, and theSenate plans to vote on it next week. It would enable Congress topass Obamacare legislation later as a separate proposal. Thepresident has said repeatedly that he would veto any proposal togut or repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

The budget proposal spells out the Republican Party’s prioritiesby calling for $5.3 trillion in spending cuts to reach balance innine years. Most of the reductions, $4.1 trillion, would come fromprograms including entitlements like Medicare. The plan would use a reserve fund toincrease military spending.

“America needs real growth, and that means real pro-growthpolicies to fix the tax code, expand American energy production,and solve our spending problem,” House Speaker John Boehner, anOhio Republican, said at a news conference earlier Thursday. “Allof those things are in this balanced budget.”

A key aspect of the measure would give Republicans a vehicle togo after Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which his administration saidhas extended coverage to 16.4 million previously uninsuredAmericans.

Budget reconciliation

The budget agreement would let Republicans use a process calledreconciliation to send Obamacare legislation to the presidentwithout needing Democratic votes. While the House has voted morethan 50 times to delay or repeal Obamacare, Democrats controlledthe Senate until January and still have the power as the minorityparty to block most legislation.

House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, a Georgia Republican,said his party is committed to sending legislation to repeal thehealth care law to Obama’s desk.

“Reconciliation is a very powerful tool,” he said.

A policy statement contained in the deal said the health carelaw “is unaffordable, intrusive, overreaching, destructive andunworkable” and “should be fully repealed.”

Democrats would have the votes to keep Congress from overridinga presidential veto of repeal legislation.

The budget measure is a non-binding framework for spending billsto be passed later. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a NevadaDemocrat, said Wednesday that his party would block spending billsbased on the proposal.

“If Republicans insist on moving appropriations bill based onthat budget, it is a waste of time,” Reid said. “It will nothappen.”

Democrats want tax increases for wealthier Americans and oncompanies that park their profits overseas.

‘Entirely inadequate’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, toldreporters Thursday the budget plan was “entirely inadequate to meethardworking Americans’ needs.”

The unified budget, S.Con.Res. 11, uses emergency war funds toevade a limit on defense spending while keeping in place caps ondomestic programs.

The measure would limit discretionary spending in 2016 to $1.016trillion, while war funding would total $96 billion, far aboveObama’s request. The plan allows total spending of $3.9 trillion in2016, with a $400 billion deficit.

The House and Senate adopted their own versions of the budgetplan last month and conferees worked out the differences.

A budget document is typically little more than an aspirationalframework for spending. The appropriations bills due at the Oct. 1start of each fiscal year set the actual spending details foragencies and government functions.

With assistance from Kathleen Miller, Billy House and ErikWasson in Washington.

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