President Obama Announces His
2015 Budget
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/04/president-obama-announces-his-2015-budget?utm_source=snapshot&utm_medium=email&utm_content=030414-topper
President Barack Obama signs
copies of the FY 2015 Budget as Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Director, Office of
Management and Budget, and OMB staff look on in the Oval Office, March 4, 2014.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Today, after sending his 2015
budget to Congress, President Obama visited a local elementary school to
discuss what he called a “roadmap” for the agenda he laid out in his State of
the Union address to restore opportunity for all Americans.
President Barack Obama talks
with students during a classroom visit at Powell
Elementary School in Washington, D.C.
March 4, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
"These kids may not be
the most excited people in town on budget day," President Obama said,
"but my budget is designed with their generation and future generations in
mind."
The budget I sent Congress
this morning lays out how we’ll implement this agenda in a balanced and
responsible way. It’s a roadmap for creating jobs with good wages and expanding
opportunity for all Americans. And at a time when our deficits have been cut in
half, it allows us to meet our obligations to future generations without leaving
them a mountain of debt.
This budget adheres to the
spending levels that both parties in both houses of Congress already agreed to.
But it also builds on that progress with what we’re calling an Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative that invests
in our economic priorities in a smart way that is fully paid for by making
smart spending cuts and closing tax loopholes that right now only benefit the
well-off and the well-connected.
“Our budget is about
choices,” President Obama said. “It’s about our values. As a country, we’ve got
to make a decision if we’re going to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest
Americans, or if we’re going to make smart investments necessary to create jobs
and grow our economy, and expand opportunity for every American.”
The American people have made
clear time and again which approach they prefer. That’s the approach that my
budget offers. That’s why I’m going to fight for it this year and in the years
to come as President.
Later that afternoon, Deputy
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Brian Deese took to Twitter to
answer questions about the President's budget, which folks could ask using the
hashtag #BudgetChat. Take a look at some of the questions and answers.
And if you want to be in the
loop on Twitter chats like this in the future, make sure you're following
@WhiteHouse and @OMBPress .