+100.
This country's budget is a disaster and the new majority is promising to barely nibble at the solution. Even if there was an ironclad pledge to shut a whole agency every year, it would barely scratch the surface of what is needed. A fully 10% of the US GDP is government spending on borrowed money, and the GOP leadership is attacking, what, .01% of it?
There will be no leadership from politicians to greatly shrink the size of the federal behemoth. There is going to have to be a bond crisis to wake the electorate up. What this election did was to seek out a different credit counsellor, not to actually pay the bills. The voters want some way to stiff the creditors and still have access to their loans. Most Republicans are just playing along, and stringing things out to their own personal advantages. Hardly anything has changed, sad to say.