“Any candidate for Speaker Of The House that does not pledge to take a chain saw to government spending should be dismissed out of hand.”
Just as long as you know only about 20% of the electorate agrees with you.
And after two years the American people will run you out of town on a rail.
By and large the American people give only lip service to balanced budgets, spending, borrowing and deficits.
But if you actually start cutting where the bulk of money is spent, a firestorm awaits.
But if you actually start cutting where the bulk of money is spent, a firestorm awaits.
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True. The democrats, media, & voters will be “champing at the bit” to vote the bums out.
The $1.7 trillion discretionary spending bill, which had a ton of military spending already passed, so the rebels can act like “tough guys.”
Over $4 trillion of the Federal Budget is mandatory spending that would need Congress to pass a bill to change the automatic spending. This part of the budget has things like Social Security and Medicare in it.
I am pretty sure that the bulk of the budget these days is servicing the debt.