Unfortunately, the House majority passed a child tax credit that seeks to make tax cuts to families whose incomes are between $110,000 and $270,000 permanent, yet only extends the tax credit for low-income workers for one year! And how does the majority want to pay for this massive tax cut? By adding to our nation's swelling national debt - the largest in our nation's history. When our country is $8 trillion in the red, we must pass tax cuts that are fiscally responsible, and unfortunately, the bill passed in Congress this week fails to do that. 

Also this week, the House majority passed an incredibly irresponsible budget that digs deeper into our national debt, while at the same time, slashes funding for important domestic programs, including education, rural water projects, grants for our rural fire departments, and law enforcement. This budget also fails to protect and preserve Social Security, which will be broke by 2042. 

It simply makes no sense to enact a budget that creates billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest people in America by borrowing the money to pay for these cuts from our children and grandchildren.  Our grandparents' generation left this country a little bit better off than they found it for our parents' generation, and our parents' did the same for our generation.  I believe we have a duty and an obligation to leave this country better off than we found it for our children and grandchildren.  It is wrong to continue to borrow $1.1 billion a day to fund tax cuts for the rich and leave our children and grandchildren with the bill.