Any candidate who cannot SPECIFICALLY name which programs he would cut is spewing crap. This “across the board spending cut” talk is nonsense. So is talk of increasing efficiency (like Algore’s old efficiency task force, or whatever it was called).
What agencies will he cut or eliminate? What will he do with entitlement spending (something like 60% of the federal budget is considered nondiscretionary entitlement spending)?
If he proposed eliminating subsidies to ethanol producers, or tax subsidies provided to small general aviation airports, or subsidies to AMTRAK, or reducing earmarks, I’d be impressed.
But, like The Beast and most of the other candidates, he is vague and wants to make everybody happy.
For this ex-New Yorker, Rudy is a nonstarter.