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Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016/Budgets

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Marco Rubio suspended his presidential campaign on March 15, 2016.[1]


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  • On December 22, 2015, Marco Rubio defended his decision to be absent from the December 18, 2015, vote on the omnibus budget bill. He said that “we are going to win this election, so the American people are no longer subjected to these kind of votes where the outcome is already predetermined, and at the end of the day, it’s an issue there was no transparency on.” Rubio continued, “I was doing something, and that is running for president so we don’t have to keep doing this in the future. I want to win this race so that we have a president that doesn’t force us to take the garbage that was in that omnibus that was passed last week.”[2]
  • According to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, the policy proposals Rubio offered at the first Republican debate on August 6, 2015, would lead to an estimated savings of $68.1 billion over five years, more than any other candidate.[3]
  • According to his official website in 2015, Rubio "believes that we must immediately freeze non-defense, non-veterans spending at 2008 spending levels. He also believes that we need to cut the budgets of the White House and Congress by ten percent and has co-sponsored legislation that would require all savings from Congressional budgets to be used for deficit or debt reduction."[4]
Senator Rubio opposes budget deal on The Kelly File
  • Rubio did not support the 2013 Paul Ryan budget. He said, "It raises it by $60 billion, the spending, but it pays it over ten years. Well, you know how that works. Over the next couple years they’ll forget it, and they will keep borrowing more. The fundamental problem that we have here is that we have a government that continues to spend more money than it takes in."[5]
  • Rubio co-sponsored S.3482 - the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2012.[6]
  • In April 2011, Rubio introduced S.726 - the Decrease Spending Now Act, which would have required "the Obama administration to cut $45 billion in unused taxpayer dollars sitting in federal coffers."[7][8]
  • While serving in the Florida Legislature, Rubio supported the privatization of toll roads in 2007.[9]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The New York Times, "Marco Rubio Suspends His Presidential Campaign," March 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Breitbart, "Rubio: I Missed Omnibus Bill Because I Was Running to Ensure We Don’t Have Bills Like It In the Future," December 22, 2015
  3. ↑ National Taxpayers Union Foundation, "The Debate’s Bottom-Line: What Would GOP Hopefuls’ Fiscal Proposals Save or Spend," August 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Marco Rubio, "Spending," accessed February 17, 2015
  5. ↑ Marco Rubio, "ICYMI: Rubio Opposes Budget Deal On 'The Kelly File,'" December 12, 2013
  6. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.3482," accessed February 17, 2015
  7. ↑ Marco Rubio, "Sen. Rubio Joins Rep. Tom Price In Introducing Bill To Rescind $45 Billion In Unspent Money," April 6, 2011
  8. ↑ Congress.gov, "S.726 - Decrease Spending Now Act," accessed February 17, 2015
  9. ↑ Florida House of Representatives, "Floor Vote 0985," accessed August 13, 2015
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