TPA Slams Latest Budget-Busting Reconciliation Round

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Kara Zupkus (224) 456-0257

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) denounced lawmakers for their latest reconciliation push (“recon 3.0”), which consists of $95 billion in new spending—including more than $60 billion in supplemental military funding. The package is designed to sidestep the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, and because it includes no spending offsets to balance the new debt, it is facing heavy pushback from fiscal conservatives and taxpayer watchdogs.

Ross Marchand, Executive Director of TPA, offered the following comment:

“Lawmakers’ insistence on further increasing spending shows a complete lack of willingness to take on America’s surging red ink. The national debt is quickly approaching $40 trillion. That’s a nearly $120,000 burden on every man, woman, and child in the United States. Rather than codify efforts to fight fraud and embrace long-overdue reforms to trillion-dollar entitlement programs, Congress once again appears to be kicking the can down the road and leaving future generations with soaring red ink. Congress doesn’t need more rounds of reconciliation: it needs to get debts and deficits under control.”

“The budget reconciliation process was established under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with the clear and simple mission of paving the way for deficit reduction. Yet, in a bitter twist of political irony, Congress has completely corrupted this process, turning a mechanism designed for balance into a vehicle for unchecked spending. Using reconciliation to bypass standard rules and ram through unpaid-for spending is a total travesty and a profound betrayal of the public trust.

“TPA will continue to hold lawmakers accountable and push reforms that force Congress to confront its spending addiction head-on.”

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The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis, and dissemination of information on the government’s impact on the economy.