On the recordApril 2, 2014
Yesterday, we learned the details of the Ryan budget, a proposal that would have devastating impacts on my western New York community. For seniors, the Ryan budget would put Medicare on the road to privatization, handing older Americans a voucher and forcing them to fend for themselves to find quality health care. This budget slashes Pell grants that provide young people the opportunity for a college education; ends AmeriCorps, a program filling a critical need in urban schools and neighborhoods; and eliminates all support for the National Endowment for the Arts. The Ryan budget would gut domestic priorities such as infrastructure, education, and medical research, cutting nation-building here by $791 billion in less than a decade. A budget is the clearest message of a nation's values. The Ryan budget abandons seniors, students, patients awaiting medical breakthroughs, and struggling families. This is not who we are as a nation. ____________________
