President Obama has taken aim at the new Republican budget proposal in his weekly address. Obama said the GOP plan would widen inequality.
President Obama: “The Republican budget begins by handing out massive tax cuts to households making more than $1 million a year. Then, to keep from blowing a hole in the deficit, they’d have to raise taxes on middle-class families with kids. Next, their budget forces deep cuts to investments that help our economy create jobs, like education and scientific research. … Policies that benefit a fortunate few, while making it harder for working Americans to succeed, that’s not what we need right now.”
The Republican budget would also repeal the Affordable Care Act. In addition to signing up more than seven million people for private health insurance plans, new figures show Obamacare also added at least three million to Medicaid.