Mike Pence vice presidential campaign, 2016/Budgets
The overview of the issue below was current as of the 2016 election.
When Gallup asked Americans to name the "most important problem facing the country" in February 2016, 17 percent said the economy. Just six percent named the federal budget deficit as the country's most important problem. Americans ranked the deficit below the problems of government, immigration, jobs, national security, and terrorism in that survey. At its peak in 2013, 72 percent of Americans said reducing the deficit was a top priority. Indeed, only the economy and jobs ranked higher in priority. Priorities shifted during President Obama's second term. In 2016, 56 percent of Americans said that shrinking the deficit should be a top priority for the next president and Congress.[1][2]
See what Mike Pence and the 2016 Republican Party Platform said about budgets.
Pence on budgets
- Each year The Cato Institute reviews America's governors' fiscal policies. According to The Cato Institute's 2014 Fiscal Policy Report Card, "[Pence] has restrained spending growth. The general fund budget increased an estimated 1.9 percent in 2014, and Pence proposed a 2.8 percent increase for 2015. However, his support for Medicaid expansion under the ACA will increase state spending down the road."[3]
- Pence voted for H.R.3521 - the Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2012, which proposed authorizing "the President to propose the rescission (line item veto) of all or any dollar amount of funding provided by any enacted bill or joint resolution."[4]
- Pence voted for S.627 - the Budget Control Act of 2011.[5]
- In November 2011, Pence voted for H.J.Res.2 - Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.[6]
- Read what the 2016 presidential candidates and other vice presidential candidates said about budgets.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Pew Research Center, "Budget Deficit Slips as Public Priority," January 22, 2016
- ↑ Gallup, "Economy Tops Americans' Minds as Most Important Problem," February 11, 2016
- ↑ Cato Institute, "Fiscal Report Card on America's Governors: 2014," accessed January 2, 2015
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.3521," accessed April 1, 2015
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.627," accessed April 1, 2015
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.J.Res.2," accessed April 1, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Republican Party, "The 2016 Republican Party Platform," accessed August 23, 2016
