Congressman Cárdenas believes in a balanced approach to our debt and deficit. This means investing in the middle class, making smart, targeted reductions in spending, closing tax loopholes and reducing subsidies to profitable industries.

While Republicans use the example of American families sitting around their kitchen table to explain our national budget, they focus on cuts without looking at what services will be lost. Congressman Cárdenas does not look at budgets in the same way, because no American family is the lender of last resort for other nations. We are not a family around the kitchen table.  We are the largest economy in the world. The decisions we make have global implications. This is why we must be strategic in deciding our priorities and getting our fiscal house in order.

Congressman Cárdenas served as Chair of the California State Assembly Budget Committee and Los Angeles City Council Budget Committee, balancing the California budget for the first time in decades.  The Congressman brings this experience to our Nation’s Capitol as a Member of the House Budget Committee.