White House denounces conservative GOP budget proposal as harmful to national security and families.

The White House has criticized the House Freedom Caucus's budget proposal, calling it a "five-alarm fire" that would endanger public safety, raise costs for families, ship manufacturing jobs overseas, weaken national security, and hurt seniors. The proposal would eliminate funding for more than 2,000 border agents, defund the police, scale back rail safety inspections, and shut down services at 125 air traffic control towers across the country. The White House has been using the Freedom Caucus as a foil as President Biden prepares to launch his reelection bid, seeking to cast the group as the face of the GOP.