Ayotte Statement on the Senate Budget Resolution

Statement

U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following statement regarding the Senate's Fiscal Year 2016 budget resolution, which provides a blueprint to guide federal spending decisions for the next fiscal year.

"I ran for the Senate to get our nation's fiscal house in order and to make sure we leave our country better off for our children and grandchildren. Putting our nation back on a fiscally responsible path requires us to make difficult decisions - and the people of New Hampshire sent me to Capitol Hill to make those decisions. This budget plan makes hard choices. While I don't like everything in this budget, I believe it's important for us to move forward with what is ultimately a fiscally responsible blueprint for our nation. This framework balances the budget in 10 years, provides our best opportunity to address Obamacare, preserves retirement programs, and does not raise taxes. By contrast, the president's budget doesn't even attempt to address our looming fiscal crisis. It would raise taxes by almost $2 trillion to pay for new spending, increase the debt to $26 trillion, and it never balances.

"I will also continue my efforts to find a bipartisan solution that addresses sequestration and ensures that we provide the funding necessary to protect our service members and meet the threats our nation faces. That's why I worked to include in the Senate budget a mechanism that will allow us to provide funding for defense and domestic priorities. This is an initial step that will allow Republicans and Democrats to work toward a bipartisan solution that would replace the Budget Control Act's arbitrary budget limits and prevent additional across-the-board cuts that harm our national security and non-defense priorities like cancer research."

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