Winning The Battle Of The Budget

The week of March 23 is crucial in determining whether the priorities in President Obama's 2010 budget will be a reality or a casualty of right-wing obstruction, says Deborah Weinstein, the executive director of the Coalition for Human Needs. She is an active member of a coalition of progressive groups uniting to defend Obama's budget proposals from attacks from Republicans and by "Republicrats"—self-styled Blue Dog conservative Democrats and their siblings in the Senate [1].

Weinstein is calling for grassroots calls to House and Senate members to ask them to resist pressure to cut spending on health care, education, green energy and human needs in the wake of a Congressional Budget Office estimate of a $1.8 trillion deficit.