April 9, 2014
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative,

You will soon vote on several different budget proposals for fiscal year (FY) 2015.  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 House Budget Committee’s FY 2015 budget resolution and the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) FY 2015 budget resolution, both of which will put the nation back on the path to prosperity.

Under the leadership of Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the House Budget Committee resolution, H. Con. Res. 96, proposes to reduce spending by $5.1 trillion over 10 years and balance the budget by 2024.  The budget resolution would save trillions of dollars by repealing Obamacare, lowering the top individual and corporate tax rates to 25 percent, reforming welfare programs and devolving power to the states, removing special interest loopholes from the tax code, and ending the simultaneous collection of disability insurance and unemployment insurance.

Chairman Ryan’s budget also tackles the nation’s growing entitlement liabilities.  The plan reforms Medicare through increased competition and a means-tested premium-support payment system, and provides for more individualized healthcare choices for Medicare recipients.  Additionally, the plan features numerous program cuts, consolidations, terminations and reforms that CCAGW has recommended for years in Prime Cuts, such as a reduction in the federal auto fleet and structural reform of the dysfunctional federal real property inventory process.  The budget plan would streamline the asset sale process, loosen regulations on property disposal and sales, and hold federal agencies accountable for the buildings and structures they oversee.  The budget highlights recommendations made in the Government Accountability Office’s four annual reports on duplicative and overlapping federal programs, such as the reorganization and streamlining of K-12 programs, including 82 duplicative teacher quality programs, as well as consolidating law-enforcement programs, litigation and judicial activities, correctional operations, and state-and local-justice assistance.

The RSC budget enacts many of the same reforms as the House budget plan, but achieves balance in four years through expedited enactment of these provisions.  The RSC plan reduces annual spending to $950 billion a year and freezes it at that level for four years; repeals Obamacare and replaces it with H.R. 3121, the RSC’s American Health Care Reform Act; brings spending down to an average of 18.1 percent of GDP while limiting average revenue to 18.1 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 2015 budget resolution and the RSC’s FY 2015 budget resolution.  The era of reckless spending and rapidly rising debt must come to an end now.  All votes on the FY 2015 budget resolutions will be among those considered in CCAGW’s 2013 Congressional Ratings.

Sincerely,

Tom Schatz
President, CCAGW