As the recent job report shows, our economy is steadily improving with 12 straight months of private sector job growth. Now, I state, now is the time for us to build on this progress and work together in a bipartisan effort to create jobs, not reduce jobs. I state, not to reduce jobs. But, sadly, my Republican friends are letting the extremists dictate their agenda, protecting special interests at the expense of working families. The Republican budget would destroy 700,000 jobs and turn back the clock, I say, turn back the clock on our recent economic progress. This budget would do critical harm to American families. Mothers and children would be stripped of nutrition benefits from the WIC program. Thousands of youth would be kicked out of Head Start. And now the Republicans are ready to continue their assault on the middle class by terminating the mortgage relief program that keeps families in their homes. We should be helping families, not making them homeless. Let's work together to pass a budget that creates jobs and helps middle class Americans.
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The speaker addresses the impact of the Republican budget on job growth and middle-class families.
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