President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018, released in March, was met with widespread criticism, even from members of his own party. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham notably called the proposal “dead on arrival.”
Last week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), the largest caucus within the House Democratic Caucus, released a blueprint for “The People’s Budget: A Roadmap for the Resistance,” which, as its title suggests, aligns much more closely with what the American people actually hoped to see in a budget plan.
The budget was released in conjunction with a detailed analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Policy Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that focuses on bringing attention to the economic needs of low- and middle-class Americans.
