Flake Statement on President's $4 Trillion Budget

Statement

U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) today issued the following statement in response to the release of President Barack Obama's 2016 budget, which would spend nearly $4 trillion and run a deficit of $474 billion:

"Instead of heeding the Congressional Budget Office's warnings, the president has sent Congress a budget that raises taxes, glosses over entitlement reform and busts the caps established by the Budget Control Act. In short, it does little to help us climb out of the fiscal hole we're in."

In a speech on Senate floor last week, Flake similarly attacked the "culture of spending in Washington" and urged his colleagues join in the effort to "get this country's fiscal house in order."

"…Some will argue that we need to take baby steps to address our fiscal crisis. I think we are well past that time, but whatever kinds of steps we take, we need to take them now," said Flake. "We need to turn this culture of spending in Washington to one that will fully repair our economy - that will give the private sector the stability and confidence to create jobs. We also need to reform our cumbersome Tax Code. Most of all, we need to relieve future generations of the burden of our financial mess. In short, it is well past time to start climbing our way out of this fiscal hole we are in."

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