{"id":370913,"date":"2018-07-26T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/house-progressives-introduce-peoples-budget\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:23:20","slug":"house-progressives-introduce-peoples-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/house-progressives-introduce-peoples-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"House Progressives Introduce “People’s Budget”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Offering an ambitious alternative to the House GOP\u2019s \u201cmorally bankrupt<\/a>\u201d 2019 budget proposal\u2014which demands over $5 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and other life-saving programs\u2014the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) on Tuesday unveiled a budget that calls for massive investments in infrastructure, healthcare, and education while proposing significant cuts to the completely \u201cout-of-control<\/a>\u201d Pentagon budget.<\/p>\n

Titled <\/span>The People<\/em>\u2018s Budget: A Progressive Path Forward<\/em><\/a> <\/span>(pdf), the CPC\u2019s plan also calls for a ban on \u201cany expansion of U.S. combat troops in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and many other countries,\u201d demanding an immediate end to \u201cthe policy of funding endless wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe electorate is looking for a new vision for the country and for foreign policy in particular,\u201d <\/span>Paul Kawika Martin, senior director for policy and political affairs at Peace Action, noted in a statement<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cThe People\u2019s Budget embodies that new vision by investing in the interests of the people over the interests of the arms industry and the billionaire class.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe #PeoplesBudget<\/a> would take the blank check for endless war off of the books.\u201d \u2013 @RepBarbaraLee<\/a> @USProgressives<\/a> #EndEndlessWar<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/hMMiOpLd62<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Win Without War (@WinWithoutWar) July 24, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Highlighting the Trump administration\u2019s deeply inhumane immigration agenda\u2014which has been a <\/span>boon for the private prison industry<\/a>\u2014the CPC\u2019s budget also calls for scaling back \u201cexorbitant funding for immigration detention and enforcement; creating due process, fairness, and accountability in the system; and eliminating the profit motive in immigration detention.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Trump pushes to ramp up excessive border spending and hire more border patrol agents, we\u2019re saying no,\u201d Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the First Vice Chair of the CPC, declared on Tuesday. \u201cI just returned from…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Offering an ambitious alternative to the House GOP\u2019s \u201cmorally bankrupt\u201d 2019 budget proposal\u2014which demands over $5 trillion in cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and other life-saving programs\u2014the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) on Tuesday unveiled a budget that calls for massive investments in infrastructure, healthcare, and education while proposing significant cuts to the completely \u201cout-of-control\u201d Pentagon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}