White House: Paul Ryan budget ‘doesn’t add up’

Published March 12, 2013 4:00am ET



The White House on Tuesday panned the release of the Republican budget plan, saying the blueprint outlined by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan “doesn’t add up.”

“Deficit reduction that asks nothing from the wealthiest Americans has serious consequences for the middle class,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. “By choosing to give the wealthiest Americans a new tax cut, this budget as written will either fail to achieve any meaningful deficit reduction, raise taxes on middle class families by more than $2,000 — or both.”

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