Rep. Lynn Westmoreland: Opposes President’s Budget

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Westmoreland Opposes President’s Budget

The White House released the president’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015. The budget calls for $3.901 trillion in spending, which includes another tax hike and $56 billion in additional stimulus spending. A central element includes a 6.3% increase to the Internal Revenue Service’s budget, which is currently set at $11.3 billion, even though this agency remains under scrutiny. Furthermore, despite the president and vice president’s assurance, there was no funding included for the Port of Savannah project. Congressman Westmoreland’s statement is below.

“This disastrous budget shows once again that the president is out of touch with reality,” stated Westmoreland. “At $172 billion over the discretionary level set in the bipartisan budget agreement, which was just signed into law in December, it shows he’s even out of touch with his own party. I would have expected a more serious proposal seeing as the budget was late again this year. Our country sits in over $17 trillion in debt, and instead of a plan to pay that down, the president is calling for more spending, more taxes, and more government.  In this outrageous proposal with increased spending, the president didn’t even include the Savannah Port, a project that is expected to create 11,554 jobs.

“Compensating the president’s frivolous spending habits by growing the government and raising taxes makes life more difficult for all Americans and shows his administration isn’t interested in addressing the deficit. I’ve said time and time again: we don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. This budget makes it even more evident that the White House is not serious about addressing the problem.”