Melvin Watt: “the budget agreement has over a 5-year period 135 billion dollars' worth of tax cuts. Eighty-five percent of those tax…”

“the budget agreement has over a 5-year period 135 billion dollars' worth of tax cuts. Eighty-five percent of those tax cuts go to the 5 percent of the richest people in America. How can we give $135 billion in tax cuts when there are children who cannot read; when there are children who are going to school hungry and we are not fully funding the WIC Program; when there are people sleeping on the street and we are not putting any money into the housing programs; when there are children who cannot read when they enter the first, second, third, fourth grade, and we are cutting the Title I reading program; when unemployment is rampant in our communities, in some places 17, 18, 19 percent unemployment in our communities, and we are cutting the summer jobs program? How can we give tax cuts to the richest people in America when the schools are falling down around our students in our public schools? Yet, it is the Congressional Black Caucus budget which is the only budget that addresses all of these needs. This is the budget that has its priorities in order. It should be the priorities of America. Yet, the agreement says let us cut taxes while our children go hungry. Let us cut taxes while our children cannot read. Let us cut taxes while people sleep on the street. We can be a better America. Support the Congressional Black Caucus budget.”