President Obama’s ambitious budget proposal for fiscal 2016 would end sequestration and replace ‘mindless austerity’ with programs designed to help the middle class, funded by higher taxes on the wealthy, USA Today reports.
Though considered unlikely to pass the Republican Congress, the budget is intended “to bring middle class economics into the 21st Century,” according to the president.
The budget, totaling nearly $4 trillion, includes billions in public works programs, initiatives in education, child care and paid leave for employees and other programs to benefit families.
For the federal government, the budget includes a 2.6 percent increase in IT spending, a 1.3 percent pay raise for federal employees and funding to add 25 more agencies to the U.S. Digital Service’s portfolio.
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