This is the progressive budget that Democrats have been waiting for

Why liberals should rally behind the Congressional Progressive Caucus' latest budget

This could be a potential budget solution.
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It's springtime, which means it must be federal budget season again.

One of the more interesting spectacles to emerge from this process in the last few years was the annual budget proposal put together by one Paul Ryan in 2014. It would've sliced an eye-popping $4.8 trillion over 10 years out of all government spending other than defense, with two-thirds of the cuts coming from programs that serve the poorest and most vulnerable Americans.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.