Trump warns Ryan budget ‘very dangerous for Republicans’

{mosads}“I’m looking at the Republicans and seeing things that are like they have a death wish,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News. “Whether it’s the Ryan plan, which is a death wish, for him to have brought this plan out at this time, why doesn’t he allow Obama, you know these are not good business people or these are not good chess players, why doesn’t he allow Obama to come out first, why does he have to come out with a plan?”

Trump also blamed Ryan’s plan for now-Rep. Kathy Hochul’s (D-N.Y.) upset win in a special election.

But this is a significant policy break from Romney, whom Trump has vocally supported since endorsing him last month in Nevada. Trump has recorded robocalls and made fundraising appeals on behalf of the GOP front-runner.

In a statement released earlier this week by his campaign, Romney praised Ryan “for taking a bold step toward putting our nation back on the track to fiscal sanity.”

“As president, I look forward to working with Chairman Ryan and his House Republican colleagues to pass bold reforms that restore America’s promise,” Romney continued.

Democrats have blasted the budget, with White House press secretary Jay Carney saying backers of the legislation are “aggressively and deliberately ignorant” for supporting deep cuts to clean energy and education funding.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said the budget “fails the test of balance, fairness and shared responsibility.”