Every penny spent by the U.S. comes from the House of Representatives.
Every debit card, plane ticket, bus ticket, housing facility, hotel, etc... used to transport the invaders to the interior of our country is being FUNDED by Johnson.
He needs to go.
Too bad....I had hopes for Johnson. Looks like the RINO*ucks got to him for one more spasm of pork.
I understand and you’re not wrong but it’s a little oversimplified. The money is allocated by Congress (originating in the House) to all the various agencies. These agencies then have fairly wide discretion how they spend it. A lot of that comes from the Executive agencies. The House needs to do a much better job with oversight, and then with oversight rewrite the allocations as to how the money may - and may not - be spent. Write clawbacks in… if the money is found to have been misused by a committee hearing it’s automatically cut. You can do this by passing an annual budget but allocating the release of cash only every 60 days. And of course, slash the hell out of these programs - start with all the recent add ons before it’s too late. They didn’t spend that charging station money after a year! Take it back now.
There is just not enough political will to change things. Too many RINOs and special interests and the like. Only a few good people there. I honestly don’t know where Johnson personally stands on these issues. I didn’t like seeing him nod at a few things during the SOTU. Anyway, we can keep swapping out speakers but the real effort has to come from the ground up. We need to elect more serious people and they need to build the political capital to stick to their guns. It’s really a terrible mess we’re in not just financially and with the budget, but with the Dems always voting in lockstep. It means all the heavy lifting comes from maybe 30% of the GOP members/15% of the House. They need to figure out how to gain steam and get not only a strong GOP majority but then a very strong caucus running the show from that majority.
My personal wish is to get people who will totally rethink the role of government in society It’s all backwards. Most of the money needs to be spent by states and localities where the people have the most say over priorities. We’re too stuck on national politics, partly because that’s easy everyone watches the same News and it’s national news. It will take a lot of work. I have been toying with making short videos for X and Yiutube (and I guess TikTok too lol) explaining how and why we should cut the budget by at least half, and doing it without causing the so called “harms” that Democrats always trot out like “they want to push grandma off a cliff” type scaremongering. Slash the federal budget and pretty much get rid of the federal income tax. Let the states manage their needs themselves let the feds stick with their limited role of defense and courts and international relations and very limited issues related to interstate commerce. That last one can no longer be a blanket to justify federal involvement in everything we do.