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COLUMBIA, MO. -- House Members in Washington today passed a 2012 budget that includes $4.4 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years.

President Obama opposed the measure that has a very small chance of getting through the senate that is controlled by Democrats.

Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt issued an ultimatum to President Obama.

Blunt wants the President to make significant reforms to the budget process to control the deficit or he’ll vote no on raising the debt ceiling.

Blunt wants Democratic leaders in Congress to stop spending more than they get from taxpayers.

Blunt said, “One of the bigger jobs for the appropriations committee in this Congress is not to figure out how to spend more money, it’s how to figure out how to get better results and spend less money like everybody else in America has been doing for 20 years.”

Blunt has proposed a balanced budget plan that calls for a constitutional amendment requiring that the nation’s spending not exceed its revenues.