The voters don’t want them to cut spending.
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Six months ago Voters voted GOP to control the House.
Didn’t take them long to abandon their promises.
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Yep, we would have to cut all non-entitlement spending (yes, it is an entitlement, its not your money per ( Nestor v. Fleming ), including defense and we might balance the budget for FY 2023, 2.3T is needed for SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid, which is over 50% of the budget, not including the other 2.8T of accounting slight of hand instruments dishonestly nicknamed the "Social Security Lockbox".
So until these entitlements are privatized, there is no way out of this mess.