Tim Kaine 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 Tim Kaine and the Democratic Party Platform said about budgets below.
Kaine on budgets
- On his official U.S. Senate site in 2016, Tim Kaine wrote, "As a member of the Budget Committee, I am committed to working with my colleagues to return to a normal budget process and put an end to short-term gimmicks and governing by crisis." He also wrote about his experience as governor of Virginia: "As a Governor who had to keep a budget balanced during the worst recession in a generation and the only Governor in modern times to leave office with a smaller general fund than the one I inherited, I believe my experience is of value on the Budget Committee as Congress wrestles with the fiscal challenges our nation continues to face. Through rigorous debate and compromise, we can put forward a balanced and comprehensive deficit reduction plan that puts our country on a sustainable path and protects the investments that are critical to our future."[3]
- When Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Keith Hall testified before the Senate Budget Committee following the release of CBO’s 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook on June 16, 2015, Hall said that he agreed with Sen. Kaine's statement that "reforms to federal benefit programs, coupled with tax reform, are the answer to the country's fiscal challenges."[4]
- Kaine helped pass two-year budgets in 2013 and 2015 as a member of the Senate Budget Committee.[5]
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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
- ↑ Tim Kaine United States Senator for Virginia, "Budget Committee," accessed October 7, 2016
- ↑ Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, "Senate Budget Committee Hearing on CBO Long-Term Fiscal Outlook," June 24, 2015
- ↑ Tim Kaine United States Senator for Virginia, "Issues: Budget," accessed July 25, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Democratic Party, "The 2016 Democratic Party Platform," accessed August 23, 2016
