Progressive Caucus Announces the Budget for All

WASHINGTON - March 21 - Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Rep. Michael Honda, the CPC Budget Taskforce Chairman and principal author of the CPC 2013 Budget, today announced the CPC’s alternative budget, the Budget for All. The CPC budget calls for a no cuts policy for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits, in stark contrast to the House Republican cuts-only scheme that fails to balance our budget. The Budget for All invests in proven job creation initiatives and includes popular reforms such as public financing of Congressional and presidential elections, progressive taxation and a public health care option.

“Our budgets mean schools, firehouses and hospitals stay open and people get the education and job training they need to find good jobs when they’re ready,” Rep. Grijalva said. “Cutting billions from public education, low income health care, school nutrition and public services and giving the money to big corporations isn’t making a tough choice. It’s a choice that’s going to make it tougher for a lot of working Americans, but that’s not the same thing. Republicans say we’re headed off a cliff because of spending. Well, our budget increases funding for job training, for education, for infrastructure, for low-income and veterans housing, and we chart a much more fiscally responsible path than the Republican scheme. It’s about more than numbers on a page to us – it’s about people.”

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/03/21-5

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