Rep. Davis Endorses 2019 Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget

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Congressman Danny K. Davis today enthusiastically endorsed the Congressional Progressive Caucus 2019 Budget. The budget offers states the ability to transition to single-payer health care systems and improves the Affordable Care Act while protecting Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP. It lowers costs of prescription drugs and expands access to mental health care and treatment for opioid and heroin addiction. It repeals excise tax on high-priced health care plans for workers and replaces those plans with public option.

It invests $2 trillion in infrastructure to transform our water, transportation, information and energy systems and expands our commitment to efficient renewable energy and green jobs
It invests $2 trillion in infrastructure to transform our water, transportation, information and energy systems and expands our commitment to efficient renewable energy and green jobs. This budget taxes Wall Street and the wealthiest few and ends subsidies provided to oil, gas and coal companies to fund Main Street and ensures profits from investments are finally taxed at the same rate as income taxes and expands the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Care Credit. The Peoples' budget makes college free of debt a reality for all students and provides greater investments in K-12 education.

The budget implements comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship and clearing the family- and employment-based immigration backlogs. Supports a minimum wage increase and collective bargaining rights and provides a plan to reduce poverty by half in ten years. In this budget there are increased funds for voter protection and legal assistance programs, funds for public financing of campaigns and initiatives to significantly reduce gun violence. This budget Increases access to mental health care and funding to end homelessness for all veteran and service members. This budget sets a sustainable baseline for defense spending and ends emergency funding for Overseas Contingency Operations.

The Peoples' Budget for 2019 from the Congressional Progressive Caucus

President Trump and Congressional Republicans want Americans to believe that we must slash funding for vital cornerstones of our society, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, to pay for their tax handout to corporations and the extremely wealthy. The Congressional Progressive Caucus knows that this is a false choice, and recognize a path forward for our country that will put workers and everyday families first.

The Fiscal Year 2019 Congressional Progressive Caucus's People's Budget: A Progressive Path Forward, builds bridges of opportunity, starting with the most vulnerable communities. The People's Budget creates millions of jobs and increases wages for those who continue to be on the sidelines of our economy. It invests in our neglected infrastructure, ends the systematic inequality in our tax system by making corporations pay their fair share, and stops the rising cost of prescription drugs. The People's Budget provides a progressive pathway to building a strong economy so working families can prosper.

The People's Budget invests $2 trillion to eliminate our lead-contaminated water system, address our overburdened mass transit system, and rebuild our schools, crumbling roads, and bridges. This budget transforms our fossil-fuel energy system to ensure our children have an inhabitable planet, and provides funding for worker re-training and apprenticeship programs.

The People's Budget takes a family first approach to budgeting. It cuts funding for the cruel immigration policies under the Trump Administration and adopts comprehensive immigration reform to strengthen our economy. The budget invests $1 trillion for universal childcare, increases access to SNAP benefits, and expands the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax credit.

Access to affordable health care remains one of our greatest challenges, especially in light of Republican attacks on the Affordable Care Act. The People's Budget supports immediate improvements to the ACA, provides $12 billion in funding for states to transition to a single payer system, and addresses the rising cost of prescription drugs.

In order to give everyday families, the future they deserve, we must close the tax loopholes that the Trump tax scam left in place and rewrite the rules of a rigged economy that puts the interests of billionaires and big corporations over everyday families. The People's Budget protects Medicare's integrity and improves its long-term solvency, andensures that Veterans Affairs will not be privatized and receives the necessary funding so that our veterans can access the best care and full benefits they deserve.

The Trump agenda drastically cuts programs supporting working families, the environment and our health care, while giving massive tax cuts to big corporations and bloating the military budget beyond belief. The People's Budget takes a very different path, reinvests in American families, and prioritizes funding for education, health care, jobs and clean air and water. The Congressional Progressive Caucus's People's Budget: A Progressive Path Forward puts political and economic power back in the hands of the people.

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