The President is clearly reacting to the success of recent Republican efforts to build a better budget. Americans don't share his willingness to stick with the status quo in our nation's tax code, and he's begun to figure that out. But they also don't share his willingness to increase the size of government through new taxes and spending. The American people reject the notion that we have to raise taxes in order to cut taxes. With a Republican Congress we've made government more accountable by delivering the first balanced budget in a generation, the first tax relief in 16 years, and reforms that are moving people from welfare to work.
Republicans are ready to take the next step in the drive for fiscal responsibility.
We're eager to work with the President to relieve families of the marriage tax by shrinking government by one-percent over the next five years.