SCHUMER REVEALS: PRESIDENT'S BUDGET BLUEPRINT A BOON FOR UPSTATE NEW YORK; SENATOR HIGHLIGHTS MAJOR INVESTMENTS FOR NEW YORK FAMILIES, WORKERS, AND UPSTATE COMMUNITIES

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed how the President's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2024 will help boost funding for a number of key programs for Upstate New York. The senator said he is pushing for bipartisan support for the President's proposal, breaking down the positive impacts it will have for families and workers across the Empire State.

Specifically, Schumer highlighted how the budget would protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, lower prescription drug costs, boost working families, invest in manufacturing, rebuild Main Streets and infrastructure, and train workers for good-paying jobs, all while reducing the deficit by nearly $3 trillion over 10 years and uplifting dozens of key programs that support Upstate New Yorkers.

"President Biden's budget blueprint is a bold vision that shows how we can invest in communities like those in Upstate New York, while lowering the deficit, and helping families and workers. From increasing funding for Community Development Block Grants to rebuilding Main Streets, extending the $35 insulin cap to all Americans and strengthening Social Security and Medicare, and boosting federal support to bring manufacturing back to America, this budget puts Upstate communities that rely on these programs first," said Senator Schumer. "I will do everything in my power to bolster bipartisan support for these vital investments, which will improve lives in every corner of the Empire State from Buffalo to Albany and Watertown, to the Southern Tier and Hudson Valley."

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