Will the House Budget Reflect Speaker Ryan’s Statements to Spend the Same Amount in Fighting Poverty?
Signs Are Not Promising
End Notes
[1] Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity, A special presidential-candidate forum on poverty, Morning Joe Panel, minute 17:40, http://www.aei.org/events/expanding-opportunity/.
[2] In the interview, when discussing reforms to poverty programs Speaker Ryan said: “The question to ask is, let’s not make it about money — let’s just spend the same amount of money.” Katie Couric, “Ryan holds poverty summit,” Yahoo! News, January 6, 2016, minute 2:40, https://news.yahoo.com/video/ryan-holds-poverty-summit-045012113.html.
[3] Robert Greenstein and Richard Kogan, “Ten Serious Flaws in the Congressional Budget Plan,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, updated June 8, 2015, https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/ten-serious-flaws-in-the-congressional-budget-plan.
[4] “Statement of Robert Greenstein on Chairman Ryan’s Budget Plan,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 5, 2011, https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/statement-of-robert-greenstein-president-on-chairman-ryans-budget-plan?fa=view&id=3452; Kelsey Merrick and Jim Horney, “Chairman Ryan Gets 62 Percent of His Huge Budget Cuts from Programs for Lower-Income Americans,” CBPP, March 23, 2012, https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/3-23-12bud.pdf; Richard Kogan and Kelsey Merrick, “Chairman Ryan Gets 66 Percent of His Budget Cuts from Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes,” CBPP, March 15, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/3-15-13bud.pdf; and Richard Kogan and Joel Friedman, “Ryan Plan Gets 69 Percent of Its Budget Cuts From Programs for People with Low or Moderate Incomes,” CBPP, April 8, 2014, https://www.cbpp.org/research/ryan-plan-gets-69-percent-of-its-budget-cuts-from-programs-for-people-with-low-or-moderate?fa=view&id=4122.
[5] The report also called for financing its proposals rather than adding to budget deficits, recommending that this be done through a combination of reducing “entitlement spending for the affluent,” limiting “corporate welfare” spending, and raising revenues by limiting tax expenditures. AEI/Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity, “Opportunity, Responsibility and Security,” 2015, https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/opportunity_responsibility_security_doar_strain_120315_FINAL.pdf.