Louise Slaughter: “just 2 weeks ago, the majority forced a budget vote by two votes to cut $50 billion from education, from health care…”

“just 2 weeks ago, the majority forced a budget vote by two votes to cut $50 billion from education, from health care, from foster care, child support, and a host of other vital programs. They claimed that they were simply eliminating waste and promoting fiscal responsibility and, most importantly, curbing our national debt. But today, they want us to agree to a tax cut for $56 billion. If we take away the $50 billion in the budget tax cuts, but we add $56 billion in tax giveaways, we end up with more debt, not less. In fact, we end up adding $6 billion to the largest deficit in our country's history, the one created by this Republican Congress. Now, if reducing the deficit is not a priority, what has made the majority's agenda? How we control the purse strings in our hands reveals who we work for. Of the proposed $56 billion in cuts, 50 percent, that is, $28 billion, will go to the superrich, those among us who need it the least. This bill is for them, the men and women among us who earn more than $1 million a year, a mere fraction of 1 percent of Americans. At the same time, the middle class will continue to be squeezed, while workers who make $40,000 or less, in other words, those who need help the most, will receive 1 percent of today's cuts. That is what this is about. Does the Republican Party really think the American people do not see what is going on here?…”