HUTCHINSON, Kan. — First District Congressman Tracey Mann says Speaker Pelosi’s forced vote on a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint through a tool called budget reconciliation is the largest tax and spending measure in American history, adding trillions to the $30 trillion national debt.
Mann added that it includes damaging taxes, falling largely on the shoulders of middle-income families, small businesses, and family farms.
Reconciliation was created in 1974 to reduce the national deficit through a simple majority vote. The idea was that through reconciliation, elected leaders would put aside political preferences and instruct congressional committees on how to best prioritize the country’s spending for the next year. Mann stated that since January, the house used reconciliation to pass the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in March and the $3.5 trillion budget blueprint, both passing on party lines only.
Mann says he will continue to strongly oppose the budget as it stands now.
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