But both major parties have agreed to slash the safety net.
And I have been proud to lead the fight against the Ryan-Republican budget agendas that undermine economic progress for women, gut investments in education, and slash the safety net for families with potentially devastating consequences.
Of course, if talking points aren't your thing, then you can always read about ways to cut the federal budget without slashing the safety net -- but we're feeling feisty this week, so let's get started, shall we?
They can also use a tool called the budget reconciliation process, which cannot be filibustered, to eviscerate Obamacare, cut taxes and slash the social safety net.
Indeed, the logic of slashing the social safety net fits cozily with an upwardly redistributive programme of tax cuts and deregulation.
They agree on the death penalty, on no universal health care coverage now, on more military spending, on the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement, on corporate welfare and on slashing the social safety net.
LIBERAL Catholics have argued that today's Republican Party has veered far away from traditional conservative values: the Republican mission to slash the social safety net and deregulate Wall Street will worsen structural inequalities in a way that is radical and even anti-Christian.
Whereas President Franklin Roosevelt had responded to a similarly dire housing crisis by creating the National Housing Agency, Ronald Reagan reacted by slashing the social safety net, telling stories of a Chicago "welfare queen" who drove a Cadillac and ripped off the government for upward of $150,000.
But as we slash the social safety net, once basic things—a home, college, a dignified old age become mirages.
We cannot afford to have an OMB Director determined to slash the social safety net and cut the investments we need to create an economy that works for everyone.
