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Republicans Vow To Get Really Serious About Cutting Spending In Like 20 Or 30 Years
The Bee ^ | April 11, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 04/12/2025 7:10:49 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an inspiring show of commitment to the American people, congressional Republicans pledged to get really serious about cutting government spending in like 20 or 30 years.

The move came in response to the Republican voting base's concerns over growing government spending and national debt, which prompted GOP leaders to make a vow to do something about it sometime in the next half-century.

"We are committed to reining in federal spending... sometime," Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told reporters. "We campaigned on promises to our voters that we would bring fiscal responsibility back to the federal government, and we will. Probably a couple of decades from now. Maybe three decades. We remain focused on making good on our promises. Eventually. Probably."

Other Republican politicians have also stepped forward to assure their constituents that they'll be "all over" cutting overspending just as soon as they can get around to it.

"It'll be the high point of my century of public service," said Senator Mitch McConnell. "The time for bringing government spending under control is long overdue, which is why we're serious about doing something about it by the year 2050. Or something like that. We'll see."

Voters across the nation were pleased to hear that their elected officials would prioritize cutting government spending eventually.

"My voice has been heard," said plumber James Castillo. "Until they finally get the cuts in, though, I'll keep propping up government spending as best as I can."

At publishing time, congressional Republicans had announced a bipartisan agreement with Democrats to quadruple the national debt.

(Excerpt) Read more at babylonbee.com ...


TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakestofnews; letusknowwhen; veryfakenews
This time the RINOs mean Business!
1 posted on 04/12/2025 7:10:49 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Johnson is DOGEing his responsibilities.


2 posted on 04/12/2025 7:14:27 AM PDT by Paladin2 ( )
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To: Navy Patriot

This IS the Bee. ;-)


3 posted on 04/12/2025 7:19:38 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: Navy Patriot

I thought the Bee was supposed to go satire . . .


4 posted on 04/12/2025 7:57:37 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: All

Hard to cut spending when such a growing % of it is interest on the national debt.


5 posted on 04/12/2025 8:03:09 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Navy Patriot
Trump and Musk are serious about cutting spending.

RINOs want to continue the pork. They benefit from the corruption. So it's not just the Democrats.

6 posted on 04/12/2025 8:05:37 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MCSETots
I thought the Bee was supposed to go satire . . .

They do, however this article was written the one day of the month that the Truth Commission Representative was in the office.

7 posted on 04/12/2025 8:06:20 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

We’ll know they are serious when they stop using baseline budgeting.


8 posted on 04/12/2025 8:06:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

True.


9 posted on 04/12/2025 8:06:55 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: mewzilla

That will be a big help.


10 posted on 04/12/2025 8:09:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

We really mean it this time!


11 posted on 04/12/2025 8:09:49 AM PDT by OKSooner (Oh, the mad fools!)
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To: Navy Patriot

“ I thought the Bee was supposed to go satire . . .”

“They do, however this article was written the one day of the month that the Truth Commission Representative was in the office.”

That ‘splains it . . .


12 posted on 04/12/2025 8:23:16 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: Navy Patriot

No worries. The next time they’re in the minority and have no chance of passing a bill, they’ll put forth all the good bills.


13 posted on 04/12/2025 8:27:50 AM PDT by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Yes, it’s the Bee.
However, it is sad that they no longer write satire and parody.
It use to be funny. Now, it’s just depressing.


14 posted on 04/12/2025 8:29:21 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: sjmjax

The courts are so ripe for Bee articles—something like this:

“Judge Ooga Bugmaga orders the President to invade Mozambique and save his transvestite child from execution.”

Lol.


15 posted on 04/12/2025 8:35:20 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Navy Patriot

If they don’t get things on paper and passed before the mid terms they will be SOL.

Talk is cheap


16 posted on 04/12/2025 8:54:14 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MCSETots
I thought the Bee was supposed to go satire . . .

Nah. The Babylon Bee has now won the EnderWiggin Award for Accuracy in Media for 3 years running...

17 posted on 04/12/2025 9:25:03 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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