House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday said the budget proposal floated by House Speaker John Boehner that failed to garner enough votes represented a “direct assault” on the middle class.
“First of all, we’re here for the middle class,” Pelosi said during a press briefing with Hosue Democratic leaders. “The bill that would have come to the floor was a direct assault on middle-class. And the idea of the speaker says, ‘well, I’m giving additional tax cuts to the wealthiest people in the country while I raise taxes on the middle-class,’ well, I don’t think that is a very good idea and that is how I would answer it.”
