it is time the American people got a refund because what they are getting out of this Congress they didn't pay for. In every war, from Lincoln with the land grant colleges, Kennedy during the Cold War, who built literally NASA and put a man on the Moon, to Roosevelt, who thought of during World War II the GI Bill of Rights, every President in the middle of a war has thought about how to bring home the peace and invest in our future. It is only this President with this Congress, in the middle of the war, who cuts education while Americans are trying to get their kids to school, who cuts health care while we face skyrocketing costs in health care, who cuts the police program while cities are facing a shortage of police. It is only this President in the history of his predecessors who stands on their shoulders and does exactly the opposite with this budget. It cuts back our investments in the future of America in a time of war where every President prior to him thought of America post that war and invested in its future, putting a man on the Moon, a GI Bill of Rights, an Atlantic to Pacific railroad system, at every point in our history. President Kennedy said that leadership is about priorities. To govern is to choose. The majority has made its choices, and their priorities are clear for all to see. Now it is up to the American people to demand change.…
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