President Joe Biden's top Cabinet secretaries will be summoned to Capitol Hill this week to defend his $6.8 trillion budget proposal for the next fiscal year in front of a divided Congress and a skeptical GOP majority in the House that's looking to cut spending next year.

Officials such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are expected to face partisan fireworks at GOP-led House hearings while also sitting for lines of inquiry that are likely to be more reserved in the Democrat-majority Senate.

Republicans have argued that Biden's proposal to impose $3 trillion in new taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans would hurt the economy while the billions in funding for progressive policy points are out-of-step with families that are suffering under infl ...