John Hickenlooper: “this month, my fellow colleagues in the Senate--the Republican Senate Members--are working to pass a budget proposal…”

“this month, my fellow colleagues in the Senate--the Republican Senate Members--are working to pass a budget proposal that I feel can best be described as dangerous. Their plans are going to dramatically reduce--even gut--services like Medicaid and SNAP, which give food to hungry, low-income workers. It will strip healthcare away from, most likely, more than 16 million Americans and threaten millions of seniors living in nursing homes. All of this is focused, really, on just trying to give larger tax breaks to very wealthy people--who don't, really, in most cases, want them--or to the largest corporations. This lavish--and I think ``lavish'' is the only word that describes it fairly. This lavish tax bill gives more to the top earners while taking away from Americans with the least. But it really doesn't have to be that way. If Republicans could focus on extending tax cuts for working families rather than on the wealthiest--that one effort, in and of itself, that one initiative-- they could avoid ripping away healthcare from more than 15 or 16 million Americans; gutting our much needed investments in climate change--in fighting climate change--and making sure we have lower energy prices. Instead, they are going full steam ahead with really what is a god-awful bill. I want to focus today on another dangerous part of this plan: how it explodes our national debt and really risks our economic future.”