"Exactly. Not a shock at all.Add to that the reasonable expectation that Trump has no interest in shrinking the size of government — and it is definitely not a shock."
Is that a fair slam at him? You know full well the only easy to slim the government is to cut the Military? Do we want that?
You also know that the last time the budget was cut and balanced was solely due to the Congress. Gingrich and company. It had nothing to do with Clinton, right? Therefore whether he is interested in cutting or not it really won't be his job. It would be nice if he wanted to but pretty much irrelevant.
The bulk of the black ink budget and red ink borrowing is completely on autopilot. so what do you propose that *he* propose to cut? I say let's try to fix the damn amnesty if at all possible before piling on anything else, because if it can't be stopped, it won't matter. Whatever gets cut now will be back x10 later when they have a bulletproof voting electorate. Jeez.
Bureaucracy, Dem patronage jobs to include do-nothing foundations, think tanks, NGOs subsisting on fat government contracts, plum patronage projects to Unions, grants for all kinds of "-studies" majors and colossal white-elephand science projects, The Dept. of Education, The Dept. of Energy, much foreign aid (*keep giving* the aid to Israel), anti-"bullying" efforts, ...and ALL pensions for Congress and the Senate. Serving in the Legislature, like welfare, was never meant to be a career choice.
Oh, and drastically cut the EPA: and require Congress to write and vote on regulations that implement the laws, themselves, rather than delegating the task to unelected, anonymous, unaccountable, career bureaucrats.