Posted on 02/09/2025 9:31:07 AM PST by SoConPubbie
“Why is it so easy for DOGE to identify wasteful spending?”
What about the NY Judge?
Do you know what is happening in regard to the Judge blocking DOGE from looking at the US Treasury Dept. books?
What about the NY Judge?
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I’m wondering the same thing.
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.
Good. I thought I was stressing alone. 😉
Your assuming that all of those people are real. I’m assuming that a decent percentage of them are ghost employees.
After that, analyze the cross-subsidization of health insurance premiums under Obamacare and make transparent on each monthly premium paid how much is bing paid for the individual's insurance and how much is buying down the premiums of others. Do that and the political support for "Obamacare" will evaporate.
it’s easy when you are a MUSKeteer... muskets and swords, muskets and swords! intimidating, sharp and devastatingly effective, as we have seen. now if only there were another group as effective that could “persuade” the activist judges to stand down.
Hopefully we’ll see the answer on this thread.
That judge included the Secretary of the Treasury from looking into it. No way that can stand.
Musk will know how to deal with it.
Somebody is spending that money.
Hopefully swinging gently in the breeze.
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?
Ignored. Just as Biden ignored SCOTUS ruling on student loan debt.
Pam Bondi isn’t going to send the US Marshals. If anyone is prosecuted for defying a court order, Trump has pardon power.
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?
Also unsweeten federal retirement provisions. Just about nobody in the private sector can even think of retiring in 20 years like some government employees can. Private sector retirement reality is more like 40 years.
I am onboard as that would end all the double and triple dipping going on.
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