Chris Van Hollen: “Some things do not improve with age. We are here one day later, and this Republican budget is just as bad for the…”

“Some things do not improve with age. We are here one day later, and this Republican budget is just as bad for the country today as it was yesterday. Our Republican colleagues are going to have to choose: either you claim your budget balances or you fess up to the American people that you are keeping big parts of the Affordable Care Act, because you can't do both. As we talked yesterday, the House Republican budget only reaches their claim of balance in 10 years if they take the revenues from the Affordable Care Act and all the savings from the Affordable Care Act. And if they are going to claim that they are repealing that-- as they voted 54-plus times to do on this floor--then their budget is automatically out of balance. Now, all of these budgets significantly reduce the deficit as a share of our economy in the outyears. The fundamental question is what choices these budgets make in getting there. And the Democratic budget that has been proposed and the President's budget, all those budgets say we need to have shared responsibility and we need to work together to accomplish that goal. The Republican budget rigs the rules in the favor of the most powerful and the most wealthy--right? So if you are a millionaire, under the Republican budget, you get your top tax rate cut by a full one-third, and everybody else in this budget gets walloped.…”