Biden Rips Republicans for Not Releasing a Budget Yet: ‘Doesn’t Sound Like They’re on the Level’
President Joe Biden is taking aim at Congressional Republicans for not yet releasing a budget for the 2024 fiscal year. “I told the speaker, as soon as he’s ready to lay out his budget, I’m ready to sit down,” Biden…
President Joe Biden is taking aim at Congressional Republicans for not yet releasing a budget for the 2024 fiscal year.
“I told the speaker, as soon as he’s ready to lay out his budget, I’m ready to sit down,” Biden said on Friday, adding, “Now I’m hearing things like, ‘Well, we’re not going to have our budget till April or May, maybe even June.'”
He went on, “All this talk pushing me to get my budget done. I said I’d have it done by the ninth. I had it done by the ninth. I handed it to them.”
“Why all of a sudden can’t they get it done in March, or maybe even April, maybe even May? I don’t know, doesn’t sound like they’re on the level yet,” Biden added.
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His comments come a day after he revealed his budget for the 2024 fiscal year.
It calls for increasing the Department of Defense’s discretionary budget to $842 billion, up 3.2% from the previous year.
Additionally, it would impose a minimum 25% tax on Americans whose wealth is greater than $100 million.
And the proposal would increase the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.
Biden claimed his budget “reflects our values as a Nation — a Nation of good people, growing in a new age of possibilities, and standing as a beacon to the world.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy