March 25, 2015
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative,

You will soon vote on several different budget proposals for fiscal year (FY) 2016.  On behalf of the more than one million members and supporters of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), I urge you to support the budget resolution as reported by the House Budget Committee and the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) budget resolution, both of which will put the nation back on the path to fiscal sanity.

Under the leadership of Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.), H. Con. Res. 27, as reported by the House Budget Committee, would reduce spending by $5.5 trillion over 10 years and balance the budget by 2025.  Specifically, H. Con Res. 27 would maintain the spending caps established by the 2011 Budget Control Act, fully repeal Obamacare, and eliminate “double dipping” of Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Insurance.  The budget proposal also makes note of duplicative programs that need to be consolidated, wasting not only millions of taxpayer dollars but also failing to achieve their stated objectives.  Furthermore, the committee-reported resolution includes a deficit-neutral reserve fund to offset $19.5 billion of increased spending in the Overseas Contingency Operations account.

The RSC budget enacts many of the same reforms as the House Budget Committee’s plan, but it proposes to reduce government spending by $7.1 trillion over 10 years and achieves balance in six years.  The RSC plan reduces annual spending to $975 billion in FY 2016 and freezes it at that level for two years; repeals Obamacare and replaces it with the RSC’s American Health Care Reform Act; brings spending down to an average of 18.2 percent of GDP while limiting average revenue to 18.2 percent of GDP; and gradually raises the eligibility age to 70 for Social Security and 67 for Medicare.

I urge you to support both the House Budget Committee’s FY 2016 budget resolution as reported and the RSC’s FY 2016 budget resolution.  The era of reckless spending and rapidly rising debt must come to an end now.  All votes on the FY 2016 budget resolutions will be among those considered in CCAGW’s 2015 Congressional Ratings.

Sincerely,

Tom Schatz
President, CCAGW