This week, the House “will vote on a plan to improve the lives of American families by balancing the budget in ten years,” says Chairman Paul Ryan in the Weekly Republican Address. “We’re not balancing the budget as an accounting exercise,” he says. “We’re not trying to simply make numbers add up. We’re trying to improve people’s lives.” Watch Chairman Ryan here and read more below.
MORE FROM THE SPEAKER’S BLOG:
- Balancing the budget to grow our economy & expand opportunity: The GOP budget cuts wasteful spending, fixes our broken tax code to create jobs and increase wages, and protects priorities like Medicare and defense.
- Putting job-seekers in the driver’s seat: The House-passed SKILLS Act updates our nation’s job-training system, eliminating and streamlining programs to make it easier to get the right skills for the right jobs.
- Preserving welfare work requirements: The House voted to prevent the Obama administration from undermining the 1996 welfare reform’s work requirement that is central to helping millions of Americans out of poverty.
