Congressman Mike Rogers made the following remarks today after the president released his budget request for Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15).

“The president’s budget would lock in deficit spending, increase the tax burden, do nothing to strengthen or secure Medicare and Social Security and unnecessarily weaken our armed forces – all while adding $8.3 trillion to our national debt over the life of his plan.

“This isn’t a budget; it is a blueprint to bankruptcy. The American people know what it means to live on a budget and deserve better. As East Alabama’s working families know, Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.”

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