“Why is it so easy for DOGE to identify wasteful spending?”
What about the NY Judge?
Trump team needs to sell the elimination of federal government workers as an Inflation Reduction Initiative. By firing half or more of the federal workforce with their overblown salaries and benefits, you now have fewer dollar$ chasing the same amount of goods. Cut the pay and benefits of those that are left for more inflation reduction. Encourage states to cut state, county, and city bloated payrolls and the effect on inflation will be exponential.
This is only partially right. In addition to the baseline being carried forward 3% plus inflation is added to the previous amount every year. This is per the congressional budget act of, I believe, 1972 and all of its subsequent spawn.
The budget needs to be scrapped and a new Zero Base Budget generated.
What if all the other agencies that had their Trump-appointed appointees confirmed say the same thing as what Vought did, that they won’t take any money that’s suspect.
What would that judge do then?
There's your answer where much of the $ lands.
I wish that Musk or Trump would understand that understanding and ending provisions of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and all amendments to it are key to controlling rampant spending and the whole shut down cycle and CR’s. Without killing that beast there can be no lasting reform or actual budget.
Some of us have been screaming this for years without notice.
Why? Why doesn’t anybody understand this is one of our very biggest problems?
There’s been a lot of missing money in these two agencies for decades.
In my humble opinion each payment should be coded with the CFR number that gave the authorization and appropriation. Also you can use MS project or some such software tool and tie all federal work to a CFR this would align the activity to the legislation. or if the CFR is just a regulation without appropriate legislation then i could be eliminated .
how in the world haven’t past Tsy Sec’ys not instituted these basic accounting rules? as stunning as hearing the SS system has no set-up to identiy duplicate use of SS#s. good God.