Taxpayer Watchdog Slams Irresponsible White House Budget

For Immediate Release

Contact: David Williams – (202-258-6527)

Washington, D.C. – The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) expressed concern about President Biden’s $1.5 trillion discretionary budget for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The budget package includes an 8.4 percent increase over current year funding and contains drastic increases to the operating budgets for the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services.

In response, TPA President David Williams offered the following comment:

“After a year marked by trillion-dollar deficits and record spending, the Biden administration has kicked off the new year with trillions of dollars more in spending with COVID relief, an inflated and unnecessary ‘infrastructure’ proposal, and now a bloated budget proposal for FY ‘22. In particular, this proposal would increase spending for the Department of Education by 41 percent and the Department of Health and Human Services by 23 percent. Some agencies are receiving their highest funding level in decades.”

“Even though Department of Defense spending will only increase 1 percent in the budget released today, this proposal only covers discretionary spending, meaning the Pentagon may be in for quite a pay raise under this proposal. With expensive and failing programs like the F-35 and billions of dollars worth of earmarks, the Pentagon is a prime candidate for spending cuts, not increases.”

“With a national debt of $28 trillion and counting, the exorbitant bill the United States has accumulated will come due very soon. It is long past time to make the difficult decisions required to move America toward a more responsible, sustainable spending system that will ensure economic security for years to come. This proposal by the Biden administration is irresponsible and should be rejected by Republicans and Democrats before it even reaches Capitol Hill.”

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