New Web Ad: Patty Judge Announces Opposition to Iowa's Balanced Budget Requirement

In an alarming admission, Patty Judge told the Sioux City Journal's editorial board that she not only opposes a federal balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, but she also opposes Iowa's balanced budget requirement, saying "I did not think it was the wise thing to do on the state level, and I really do not think it's the wise thing to do for the country." Patty Judge's alarming admission is disqualifying for state office, let alone federal office where national debt approaches $20 trillion. Spending within one's means is a responsibility that Iowans meet every day and voters deserve to be represented by elected officials who reflect that basic value," said Grassley campaign manager Bob Haus. "This stunning admission should come as no surprise considering that even with Iowa's balanced budget requirement, the Culver-Judge administration used reckless and irresponsible budget gimmicks to get around the rule, saddling Iowans with hundreds of millions of dollars in debt that won't be paid off for a generation," said Haus.Even with Iowa's balanced budget requirement in place, the Culver-Judge administration still invented ways to spend more than they took in, spending $1.14 for every dollar the state gathered, and going $875 million in debt for the failed I-Jobs program. Their mismanagement led to a catastrophic ten percent across-the-board cut and a budget shortfall of nearly one billion dollars.

Senator Grassley has been a longtime supporter of a federal balanced budget amendment, telling the Sioux City Journal editorial board that the first step to reducing national debt is a federal balanced budget amendment.

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