H.R. 1 Is Not the Answer

Floor Speech

Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Ask Americans if we should reduce government spending and most say yes. I agree. But let's dig a little deeper. Let's make the kind of choices that families make.

H.R. 1 that the Republicans have offered in cuts will result in 218,000 fewer children getting the proven benefits of a preschool program called Head Start. H.R. 1, at the same time, does nothing to cut the $4 billion that we are giving every year to the Big Oil companies. If we want to talk about oil prices, our taxpayers give $4 billion to the wealthiest corporations in the history of the world.

We are cutting about $5.7 billion from Pell Grants in H.R. 1. I voted ``no.'' What are we doing about billionaires who are getting tax breaks to leave to their heirs? Eleven billion dollars a year for the wealthiest Americans and their heirs.

We have to make the kind of choices that help middle class Americans. We can tighten our belt, but we don't have to do it on the backs of the middle class.

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