Posted on 05/04/2025 2:51:43 PM PDT by DFG
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) joined Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" to discuss the efforts of congressional Republicans to pass President Donald Trump's agenda.
It was a wide-ranging discussion, covering the first (and next) 100 days, Democrats' efforts to thwart the successes of the administration — and Republicans — and tariffs. But the key moments, in my view, came when Bartiromo pressed Barrasso on proposed spending cuts in the reconciliation package.
House Republicans have proposed roughly $1.5 trillion in cuts, and the concern is that Senate Republicans won't be able to meet that. But Barrasso stated affirmatively that he believes they will meet, if not exceed, that level of cuts as they work toward finalizing the reconciliation package.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Just do it. It’s not hard. Get your heads out of your old butts. It’s 2025.
Just take DOGE findings ( that YOU should have found since you fund that crap, don’t read the bills, and do ZERO oversight which is your JOB! ) and go from there.
That’s a measly $150B a year on $7T+ budgets.
And 2 trillion of that will be added to the deficit.
2 trillion or 1.85 trillion...that’s not gonna save the day
It’s a start, and a move in the right direction…..finally. I’ll take it.
Unfortunately it’s not a slam dunk with the 3 squish pubbies…murkowdki, Collin’s, McConnell. I doubt any Dems will support..maybe Fetterman.
And that useless Rand Paul.
Indeed, $1.5 trillion sounds like a lot, but its spread over 10 years.
Its a few drops in a big bucket.
Yep.
Whoops.
Two words: Baseline budgeting.
That’s a measly $150B a year on $7T+ budgets.
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People are just starting to understand. It’s not a good start, but that will be the mantra.
Do we all realize how the increase in the debt each year generates increase in interest on that debt? And that interest is in the category Government Spending. So interest swallows that $150B without even a drink of water. And then it’s more the next year and the next year.
Let me guess...the cuts all come in years 7, 8, 9 and 10.
It won’t happen. There are enough Romney types left to make sure if it.
Yeah, pretty much “Kabuki Theater”...$2 Trillion annual deficits continue. At least a $45 Trillion national debt by the end of the bill period of 10 years. (Probably more like $55 Trillion in reality).
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14/text
It’s astonishing how people can’t see that it all went too far and there is no answer.
It’s not original. People have always presumed hope can overwhelm mathematics, and then when it doesn’t, they will never attribute the reality to their own self delusion. It will be someone else’s fault.
There is now a solid handful of Freepers who say things like “this is nothing. This is insignificant. The only way out is to do $2T cuts this year. Not next year. This year.”
They are on their way to seeing reality, which is that $2T is not just politically impossible. It’s mathematically impossible because interest on the debt is now over $1T. What is left to cut would 100% end Medicare and Social Security and DoD and also any courts that would hear cases stopping that.
Then when we are not immediately invaded by China or Russia, we would come to realize US society is not worth to them to endure the bother.
If we don’t start cutting, the debt will eat us alive. Compounding is a miracle, but also a double edged sword.
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