Gaerz has long been one of my favorites.
However, in this case, he seems to have cut off his nose to spite his face.
Two reasons. Frist, the spending bill he blocked did cut spending significantly, up to 8% domestically I’ve read. That’s clearly not enough, long term, but it’s better than what we ended up with now with the CR, which is no cuts.
Second, they have as promised broken up the Omnibus bill into the different appropriations bills for each department, which is a huge win. But rather than be happy with that achievement as well, we get stuck with the CR which
Is in effect a short term Omnibus again, with no cuts.
A CR of some sort was probably a requirement, due to delays in creating those individual appropriations, but the one we had lined up had budget cuts in it, that Gaetz blocked.
Respectfully, see my post above....
Our spending is so out of control now that we have record deficits as far as the eye can see. I don’t have the numbers in front of me nor the energy to look them up but we are destroying the economic prospects of our children and its immoral and unethical. I would argue that it should be illegal and its definitely unconstitutional to do this to future generations.
I don’t put it past the DC cabal to inflate the request and then concede to a 10% cut. They are 100% out of control.