Trump Budget threatens to spark new fight among Republicans

Washington

REPUBLICAN US Representative Todd Rokita keeps a clock hanging on the wall of his Capitol Hill office which tracks the US government's rising debt in real time and reminds him of his top priority: reining in federal spending.

"I was sent here on a fiscal note," said the Indiana lawmaker and vice-chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, who rode a Republican wave during his first election to Congress in 2010.