President Biden just introduced his budget for fiscal year 2025, and the $7.3 trillion proposal is a mirror-image of his lofty 2024 budget that was swiftly rejected by Congress. BreakThrough News Editor-In-Chief Ben Becker argues that Biden is proposing a plan that he knows will fail to generate enthusiasm for his 2024 re-election – a campaign that is beleaguered by the swelling protests against Biden’s support for Israel’s war. While both parties swiftly agreed to budget cuts for UNRWA to avert a government shutdown, the sole UN agency providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, Becker argues that both parties partake in a drawn-out back-and-forth on budget resolutions that increasingly “propose more budget cuts on the working class” while the astronomical budget for war goes unchallenged.
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