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The Republican budget plan, their Roadmap to Ruin, is breathtaking in its recklessness.  It’s one of the worst proposals I can recall seeing during 18 years in Congress.

We need other choices, like the People’s Budget that the Congressional Progressive Caucus is offering today.  It’s called the People’s Budget because it invests in people and listens to people…because its values are American values.

The People’s Budget shows that you can tame the deficit without shredding the safety net, without destroying Medicare, without giving the back of the hand treatment to the middle class.  We think working families deserve more prosperity, not more austerity.

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