Issue Position: Fiscal Responsibility

Issue Position

Fiscal Responsibility

Congressman Garcia is committed to working with his colleagues on a bipartisan basis to find a thoughtful, measured, and balanced approach to deficit reduction that creates jobs in the short-term and brings down deficits over the long term. Toward that end, Congressman Garcia helped launch a bipartisan group of freshman members of Congress calling for sensible action and compromise. Earlier this year, bipartisan members of this group came together to support legislation to cut $200 billion in duplicative federal spending over the next 10 years.

Congressman Garcia is a strong supporter of the pay-as-you-go principle--or "PAYGO"-- a tried and tested tool for fighting deficits that that helped create budget surpluses during the Clinton Administration. Under the PAYGO law, Congress--like families across Florida--must pay for all new policies that call for new entitlement spending or reduce revenue so that they add nothing to the deficit.

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