Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) slammed President Obama's forthcoming budget proposal calling it a "nervous breakdown on paper."
Cleaver said the proposed budget would go too far to rein in government spending in the midst of an economic recovery.
"This budget is a nervous breakdown on paper," said Cleaver during an interview on CNN's "Starting Point" Monday morning. "We're still in a recession, we're still struggling. Unemployment is still too high," he said.
We suffer from 'spendicitis,' said Cleaver, but the president was not
"the one who spread this disease" and had inherited those problems when
he came to office.
The Obama administration will unveil its budget Monday morning.