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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today released the following statement regarding President Obama’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2016:

“One of the concerns I often hear from folks in North Carolina is that the federal government spends too much. Many worry that our ballooning national debt threatens economic stability and jeopardizes the American dream for their families. 

“President Obama’s budget proposal disregards those concerns and delays dealing with them, ignoring our crushing debt burden. His budget is more of the same ineffective policies we’ve seen in the past: more taxes, more spending and more debt. These are outdated, Washington-centered ideas that don’t work.

“Washington owes the American people a responsible budget that reins in federal spending, not more one-size-fits-all federal dictates. That is why I am committed to passing a budget that cuts spending, balances the budget, reforms our complicated tax code to be fairer and simpler without raising taxes and removes many of the unnecessary onerous federal regulations that tie the hands of employers.”

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U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx is currently serving her sixth term as the representative of North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District and is the elected Republican Conference Secretary. Dr. Foxx is the chair of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and serves as Vice Chair of the House Rules Committee.