Pete Aguilar: “Earlier this month, we saw encouraging news about our economy continuing to move back from the debilitating recession…”

“Earlier this month, we saw encouraging news about our economy continuing to move back from the debilitating recession that we faced only a few years ago. While we still have a ways to go, we are certainly moving in the right direction. However, if the GOP budget revealed today should come to pass, it would have devastating effects on America's middle class and undo the progress that we have made. This budget will force middle class families to work harder and get less. The GOP has presented us with legislation that will keep paychecks stagnant, making it harder to buy a home; it would cut student loans, making it difficult for kids to afford college, and it would strip away the secure retirement by privatizing Medicare. We cannot afford to balance America's checkbook on the backs of the middle class. In the district where I come from--California's Inland Empire--families are struggling from the recession and are fighting to catch up with the rest of the Nation. I cannot and will not ask them to bear this burden because the GOP can't pass a budget. ____________________”