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Aug
16
Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after the Trump administration was forced to restore an online database of apportionments by a federal court, but has failed to publish all apportionments as required by the court.
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Aug
15
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement in response to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing that Trump’s Big Ugly Law adds so much to the deficit that it will trigger $536 billion in automatic cuts to Medicare.
Aug
14
Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement marking the 90th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act.
Aug
12
Today, Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan F. Boyle, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported an annualized CPI inflation rate for July of 2.7 percent:
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The nonpartisan CBO confirmed that the Big Ugly Law (Public Law 119-21) will trigger $536 billion in Medicare cuts over a decade.
Non-partisan analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) shows that the bill worsens inequality, gives the ultra-rich a historic tax break, and makes working people worse off.
The reconciliation bill takes health care and nutrition assistance from hardworking Americans while lavishing tax breaks on billionaires. The enacted bill isn’t just mean-spirited, it’s also misleading. Republicans know their policies are widely opposed, so they’ve resorted to lying about what the measure does, who it hurts, and the effect on the deficit.
This is not a budget. It is President Trump’s annual appropriations request. Not only is it three months late, but it also covers less than one-third of all federal spending.
Brendan F. Boyle, Ranking Member
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Congressman Brendan F. Boyle was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia. The son of an immigrant, Congressman Boyle’s father was a janitor for SEPTA and his mother was a school crossing guard. The first in his family to attend college, he attended the University of Notre Dame and later graduated from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government with a master's degree in Public Policy.