2027 Presidential Budget Request Will Make Life Harder

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Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Garcia) for yielding time.

Mr. Speaker, a budget for our country is a moral document. It shows our priorities. It shows what kind of future we are laying the groundwork for.

A budget should reflect investments in Americans by funding education and housing while also lowering costs. But Donald Trump's budget request sends a clear message about the kind of country Republicans want; one that invests in war, not Americans.

What happened to the so-called America First project by this President? What happened to the so-called America First project?

The President's budget slashes $8.5 billion from K-12 programs, cuts 52 percent of the budget for the agency charged with protecting our air and water, and reduces housing programs by $11 billion--all of that to pay for the largest percentage increase to the Department of Defense since World War II. Let me say that again. All of that is to pay for the largest percentage increase to the Department of Defense since World War II.

The American people are tired of seeing their tax dollars fund more endless wars in the Middle East. They are tired of seeing a President who sends our sons and daughters to war while apparently being increasingly unstable both mentally and emotionally. They are tired of seeing his top aide say nothing, nothing, and do nothing to intervene when the President clearly needs help.

How much longer does this have to go on before this Republican majority steps in? How many more AI-generated Jesus images does the President have to post before you, my Republican colleagues, are alarmed like the majority of Americans?

History will remember this Republican-controlled Congress as complicit in this President's behavior and his ill-informed proposals.

Mr. Speaker, it is not too late for Republicans to join Democrats in fighting for a budget that actually puts Americans first, one that seeks to fund and build schools at home and not fund bombs abroad, a budget that reflects the values of a government and its President, and that fact rings true here.

The President is asking Congress to steal from our children's future to prop up a war that no one wants. I urge my Republican colleagues to stand opposed to this cruel budget.

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