Immoral Choices in the House GOP Budget

Budgets, as Rev. Jim Wallis says, are moral documents. They contain choices that reflect our priorities and define our values. The Republican-led House Budget Committee’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal, “A Balanced Budget For A Stronger America,” is a document full of immoral choices that will have devastating effects on the most vulnerable Americans.

The proposal is short on specifics and covers little new ground. House Budget Committee Chair Tom Price (R-Ga.) previewed the proposal’s focus on balancing the budget, and $5.5 trillion in spending cuts, in a speech at a Heritage Foundation event in January. Most of the rest borrows heavily from the budgets Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) proposed when he was the budget committee chair.