Fight For Obama's Budget

After the success of passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Obama's next big priority was to pass the fiscal 2010 federal budget resolutions. Once again, the conservative opposition mounted a fierce campaign to embrace the failures of Herbert Hoover and the Bush presidency, and even supported an alternative budget which called for more Bush-style tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy as a way to get us out of the recession those same policies helped create. Once again, we called on the progressive community to fight for real solutions from Congress.

And once again progressives responded. As a result of our call to action, over 20,000 emails were sent to members of Congress urging them to support President Obama's crucial investments in America, and to reject wasteful tax cuts for those who don't need them. As with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, your pressure helped produce a truly progressive budget that puts us on a path toward health care for all, affordable and accessible education and a clean energy economy. This budget truly represents a blueprint for change.