Shaun Donovan: “Where are our future workers going to come from if we are leaving all these kids behind? And that is a cost we can't…”

We cannot afford a return to mindless austerity.

Not only have we seen the slowest growth in healthcare costs over the last 3 years that we have seen in 50 years, but the budget goes farther.

The budget is a blueprint for the President's vision for middle class economics in the 21st century.

I would really describe [sequestration], in many cases, as mindless austerity, cutting just simply straight across the budget without reflecting, really, which are the critical investments.