>>Make a daily request. Tweet away at each boondoggle and they have a 45 day clock ticking to take a vote. Trump will be the hero for forcing them to consider each piece individually. Key is to take lots of little bites.<<
He could even put up a challenge to the public: Send me your suggestion for the most ridiculous spending item over $50 million in this budget and I’ll pick the winners, presenting them day by day in descending order of ridiculousness.
I’ll bet the winner would be a real doozy, one that even many Democrats would vote to rescind.
“He could even put up a challenge to the public: Send me your suggestion for the most ridiculous spending item...”
Good idea - may be even better to challenge the Departments employees to search their authorizations for items that can be eliminated or reduced and why the “the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons” (2 USC 683).
When I was an engineer on a major weapons program in the ‘80’s I came up with two “Value Engineering Change” proposals and got them approved, saving close to $10M which the USAF and my employer split. Of course I didn’t see a dime of the $5M pure profit my employer realized, I was just getting problems fixed as part of my job. Incentivize the process - x amount (scale, probably couldn’t do percentage) if identified and actually passed.