According to the White House, the GOP proposal endangers public safety, raises costs for families, hurts seniors, weakens national security, and even makes the border less secure by eliminating funding for more than 2,000 border agents.
The White House on Monday called the House Freedom Caucus’s budget proposal a ‘five-alarm fire,’ arguing that its spending cuts would endanger Americans’ safety.
The key ways, according to the White House, include endangering public safety; raising costs for families; shipping manufacturing jobs overseas and undermining American workers; weakening national security; and hurting seniors. Biden’s budget included funds to hire an additional 350 Border Patrol Agents, $535 million for border technology at and between ports of entry, and $40 million to combat fentanyl trafficking.
The White House also said the proposal would scale back rail safety inspections, especially in the wake of the train derailments in Ohio that led to a politically charged situation over President Biden not visiting the site. The statement claims the proposal would lead to 11,000 fewer rail safety inspection days next year alone and 30,000 fewer miles of track inspected annually.
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