I love when the left turns on each other.

(The Hill) — “Draconian” budget cuts proposed by both House Republicans and President Obama will hit minority communities the hardest and should be rolled back, leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) warned this week.

The reductions — targeting programs as diverse as energy subsidies, neighborhood grants and tuition assistance — would only exacerbate the economic troubles of low-income communities at a time when minority unemployment is already much worse than the national average, the lawmakers said.

They’re calling on both Congress and the White House to seek cuts where they can be better absorbed.

“Draconian austerity measures will directly impact and harm our communities,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), the CBC chairman, told reporters in the Capitol this week. “I tend not to think that we ought to be fair. I think that gets us in trouble, because the poorest people should not have to pay the same price as, for example, the Wall Street barons that got us in trouble.”

Another CBC member, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), echoed that sentiment, warning that the proposed cuts would “give a pink slip to hundreds of thousands of Americans.”

“If no one speaks for the least and the last, we will do it” Fudge said.