Adam Schiff: “Simply put, America needs a wartime budget. We need a budget that will provide the resources necessary to win the war on…”

“Simply put, America needs a wartime budget. We need a budget that will provide the resources necessary to win the war on terrorism, but not a dollar of wasted spending, that will stimulate our economy without aggravating our long-term deficits and that will protect and reform Social Security and Medicare but not finance the war out of its trust funds. In sum, our country needs a budget that will call on the American people to make sacrifices to win, sacrifices they are willing to make if only their leaders will have the courage to ask and speak plainly. The President's budget is not there yet. The budget calls for the most significant increase in military spending in more than 2 decades, and most of that increase will enjoy broad bipartisan support. The budget also proposes more than $500 billion in additional tax cuts, and it also proposes some additional domestic spending. And the budget requires sacrifice. There is only one problem. It is not we who are being asked to sacrifice, it is our children.”