WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts today said the President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Proposal is more of the same tired, agenda-driven wish-list that taxes, borrows and spends too much.

“The President’s budget is especially hard on Kansans. It raises taxes on savings and small businesses. It borrows so much that at the end of President’s plan, annual interest costs would be larger than his proposed spending for national defense, Medicaid or the combined total of all non-defense agency spending.

“The President is especially hard on farmers, proposing to cut the crop insurance program and again placing a disproportionate share of federal budget cuts on the shoulders of producers.

“Following four years of extreme drought, Kansas is living proof that the crop insurance program works for the farmer, the taxpayer and the economy.

“Our nation cannot afford the President’s course. Fortunately, the new Senate Republican Majority will soon debate a budget, one that will actually balance and one that will work for the taxpayer.”

Senator Roberts is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

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