This is about to lead to a rush of local entities to spend what has been allocated to them, but not spent.
It will lead to a whole bunch of “how dare you take away that money we were going to spend on poor people”, but in reality was going to spent on pet projects.
Why o why do we have inflation? Duhhhh
Close the Department of so-called “Education”.
Stop half of the green stuff...Natural gas is the best way to go for buildings and homes.
I'd be happy if they could just tell us how the 4.12 was spent.
I’m sure I don’t remember the numbers correctly, but I have a memory of a budget discussion during the Reagan years. At the time, the Republicans were proposing something like $805 Billion for Defense. It was Star Wars, and the Cold War, and Reagan was rebuilding the military. Wanted to spend $805B.
The Democrats freaked out. Are you kidding?? $805B??Far too much! So wasteful! No sane country would ever spend $805B on Defense!
The Democrats had a much more rational plane. Fiscally sensible, would not harm the economy, a very reasonable Defense bill of $795B. Who could argue with that?
Of course, the two parties compromised at $800B and everyone was happy. Which told me everything I ever needed to know about how federal spending works.
That’s fine but is that all?
What about starving a whole bunch of programs and projects like, oh say, the massive fbi building planned that is twice as big as the pentaagone?
Is this the kind of thing that lead to me disenrolling from the Republican Party?
It is the dipsy doodle fast finger shuffle.
They make a few cut and raise the debt ceiling.
Why do they need to raise the debt ceiling, if they are making cut?
Because those cuts are only window dressing. Same of sham, same old political tricks.
The author seems to be blissfully unaware that the US has a far mor serious problem than just the debt ceiling issue, it has a DEBT issue. The Democrats don't have, and never have had a plan to fix this problem. They are simply spending the country into inflation oblivion. Erasing unspent budgeted money is a nearly painless way of partially addressing this.
This would be really smart to do. Best thing the congress could do to slow inflation right now. It would stop states from enacting tax cuts with these funds as the money flows from the Federal government into their overstuffed state treasuries.
Schweikert was targeted by the Uber-Left here in Scottsdale.
They ran a nobody fake Republican against him in the primary saying he was a crook.
Then when he won the primary, the left used almost identical ads against him.
He nearly lost.
If you are the 118th GOP Congress, you make a show of turning off the illegal spigot. "No vengas aquí. Inmediatamente serás encarcelado y posiblemente ejecutado."
And then you proceed to impeach Biden, and you explain it in Nancy-speak: "We have to Impeach Biden, to find out what's in the Impeachment."
As far as I can see Republicans aren’t doing jack, as expected.