Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) released the following statement in response to President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget request, which was today submitted to Congress:

“With a debt of over $18 trillion, President Obama’s calls for $2.4 trillion in new spending and $2.1 trillion in tax increases are bold to say the least.  Adding insult to injury, his plan never balances and continues down the same unsustainable path that the American people have resoundingly rejected.  Our fragile economy cannot handle it, and as a member of the House Appropriations and Budget Committees, I look forward to doing the work the President won’t: reviewing our current spending line-by-line to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent responsibly and purposefully.”

Congressman Steve Womack has represented Arkansas’s Third Congressional District since 2011 and serves on the House Appropriations Defense, Financial Services and General Government, and Labor-Health and Human Services subcommittees and the House Committee on the Budget.

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