WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the extreme and rehashed policies in the Democrats’ budget that will crush the middle class and grow the government, not the economy:

“The Senate Democrat budget is extreme and unbalanced.

“Here what we’d get if it passed.

“A tax hike of up to $1.5 trillion, the largest in U.S. history. It will cost the average middle-class family thousands. Washington Democrats already just got hundreds of billions in new taxes, plus $1 trillion from Obamacare, so this would  be on top of all that.

“A nearly two-thirds increase in big-government spending. It would siphon a half-trillion out of the economy and into the hands of Washington bureaucrats and politicians.

“Forty-two percent more debt, with each American owing $73,000. An average of 850,000 fewer jobs per year. And an average of more than 11,500 annual job losses in Kentucky.

“Medicare would be allowed to go bankrupt in a few years. And It wouldn’t balance – ever.

“Top Washington Democrats say they simply don’t care about balancing the budget anymore – and it shows.

“Their budget won’t give Americans a better economy, real job creation, or the kind of deficit reduction our country needs – just a massive tax hike and more spending to ‘grow the bureaucracy from the pockets of the middle class out.’

“Democrats like to say budgets aren't just about dollars and cents, they're about values; well, what their budget tells me is that they’ve completely lost touch with the hopes and concerns of their constituents – that they're serving the needs of government instead of the needs of those who elected them.

“The budget we waited four years for is just a rehash of the extreme policies that continue to pummel the middle class.

“It’s time to grow the economy, not the government.”