Statement by the White House Secretary on the Passage of Senate Budget

[Fred Sanders]

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release March 27, 2015

Statement by the Press Secretary on the Passage of the Senate Budget

Following in the footsteps of their House colleagues, Senate Republicans today voted in favor of a budget that relies on top-down economics and gimmicks. The Senate Republican budget refuses to ask the wealthy to contribute a single dollar to deficit reduction, putting the entire burden on the middle-class, seniors, low-income children and families, and national security. Senate Republicans voted in favor of locking in draconian sequestration cuts to investments in the middle class like education, job training and manufacturing and also failed to responsibly fund our national security, opting instead for budget gimmicks, an approach that now faces procedural hurdles put in place by their own party.

Meanwhile, the President has a plan to bring middle class economics into the 21st Century. The President’s Budget builds on the progress we’ve made and shows what we can do if we invest in America's future, and end sequestration, by cutting inefficient spending and reforming our broken tax code to make sure everyone pays their fair share. It lays out a strategy to strengthen our middle class with investments in research, education, training, and infrastructure, while also fulfilling our most basic responsibility to keep Americans safe.

In 2013 Republicans came to the negotiating table and ultimately chose the responsible path by supporting the Murray-Ryan agreement, which reversed harmful sequestration cuts to both defense and non-defense equally, dollar for dollar. Last night, Senators from both parties came together to call for building on that approach this year and to support paying for sequester relief with both spending and tax reforms. The President has been clear that he will not accept a budget that locks in sequestration or one that increases funding for our national security without providing matching increases in funding for our economic security. The Administration will continue to abide by these principles moving forward.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/27/1373686/-Statement-by-the-White-House-Press-Secretary-on-the-Passage-of-the-Senate-Budget

[stage left]

1. I despise Republicans

And I despise the people who voted for them. And any Democrats who act like Republicans? I don't like them either. That is all.

[Fred Sanders]

2. The Asterik Budget increases off book war spending and kills the defence sequester, but not domestic sequester

How the MSM takes and twists almost every topic to make the science and fact denying GOP seem reasonable is a crime against the nation.

[freshwest]

3. Guess they let the GOP make that 20% cut next year, too. Another midnight murder. Standard GOP. n/t

[erronis]

4. Gee, why don't we just make everything "black"?

If we can go that way, the whole US budget will just be a question mark.

Well, maybe a few line items outside of black for Charter Schools, or Christmas decorations.

Taxpayers, file your 1040s on time! We'll need to start giving out presents to our favorite corporations, lobbyists, corporations, mistresses, etc. But don't worry Taxpayers, you won't have to get your little brains involved.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Maybe blacking out income tax deductions lines, claim whatever and use lots of asterisks*.

*actual deduction to be named later

Who runs a business this way, is this what the GOP thinks of businesses? Very insulting to businesses.