DOGE’s Work Is Meaningless Unless Republicans Get Serious About Cutting Spending

The Federalist ^ | 02/25/2025 | Shawn Fleetwood

[dp0622]

Your boy must have had an actually fiscally conservative budget...I can tell by how few votes it got.

Only bloated budgets get passed.

He tried.

[napscoordinator]

Ok Rand. Give us exactly what you want to cut. We want specifics. That’s one thing Rand never gives. He just says he wants to cut up to 2 trillion. He refuses to do the work that is required for this to happen.

[Drago]

Yep, basically negates everything “DOGE” is doing/can do and more...adds $6.5 Trillion in national debt over 4 years with no balanced budget until the 10 year mark. (PDJT leaves office in 2028 with a $900 Billion annual deficit under this plan). Let alone paying down any of the existing national debt that is costing $1.1 Trillion in interest per year and rising.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14/text

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s meaningless when Americans allow a raghead stooge Biden buttboy from Canada to steal our money and throw it at all freeloading slobs all over the world. This crap has got to cease.

[Gene Eric]

>> DOGE’s Work Is Meaningless Unless Republicans Get Serious About Cutting Spending

childish hyperbole

[Harpotoo]

Geez are we even 2 months into the new administration?-)

[dp0622]

This is the budget Trump wanted?

He called the house budget “big and beautiful”

Big is usually NEVER beautiful in a budget.

And that 10 year mark is bull crap. It never happens and it is far too far away.

WHY isn’t the budget being balanced this year with ALL Rs...potus, house, senate?

If not now, when?

[dp0622]

He had a budget voted on.

What do you think, he wrote a number on a piece of paper and they voted on it?

Go find it...it exists..it was voted on.

[chajin]

Let me suggest an alternate narrative. DOGE went into business cutting spending, only to discover massive fraud that kept getting in the way of massive cuts.

I’m in the hospital, overweight, with my blood filled with infection from bacteria that made me sick but still workable. If I try to lose weight before I get rid of the infection I will die. If Trump, Musk, Gabbard, Patel, Hegseth, and Bongino don’t get rid of the infection running through the government’s blood, it will die. Clean it out, then work on the weight.

[dp0622]

Trump called the house budget “big” and “beautiful” I think.

I’m NEVER doing what I did with any R president (blindly agree) ever again.

He is doing WONDERS...but there usually isn’t anything beautiful about a big budget.

Balanced budget in 10 years?!?!

Another 6 trillion added over the next four??

This is fiscal restraint?

People thinking that DOGE is gonna cut 2 trillion aren’t people to be taken seriously.

ALL of discretionary spending isn’t that much.

Military budget would be ZERO.

Wtihout touching medicare and SS, and medicaid, a balanced budget cannot happen.

Trump is working wonders...now he has to tell the congress to get back to work and give a BALANCED BUDGET.

That means not ONE penny extra.

Cause i’m not sure if people in congress and everyone here know what balanced means.

[Drago]

The federal budget is too probably far gone to “fix” unfortunately...current annual budget deficit ~$1.9 Trillion....current annual “discretionary” spending $1.7 Trillion...so cut the military to ZERO and FedGov employees to ZERO, etc, etc. (discretionary spending pie chart here: https://static.nationalpriorities.org/images/charts/2021-charts/discretionary-desk.png) then you are still $200 Billion short of a balanced budget. You could hit the “mandatory” welfare related stuff (EITC, SNAP, etc.) but that is $448 Billion, then your really hit “the 3rd rail”...Medicaid, Medicare and SS...that and interest on the national debt ($1 Trillion & rising) is where the bulk of expenditures are.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-discretionary-spending-in-the-federal-budget/

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59729

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59728

You can give your own “10 year plan” a shot here: https://www.crfb.org/debtfixer

Or a one year budget “fixer” here: https://us.abalancingact.com/federal-budget-simulator

[Drago]

Sorry, make that “probably too far gone...” needed one more proof read! ;-)

[RandFan]

thanks for the ping

I’ve posted about this last week etc...

[no-to-illegals]

Echo to Headline

[Gene Eric]

>> not sure if people in congress and everyone here know what [national] balanced means.

they unfortunately don’t believe it’s their collective responsibility

[griswold3]

You will never end waste fraud and abuse until you end the corruption in DC
It’s going to get worse before it gets better. That is if it can get better which I believe Trump is the only chance we have. It is not in the best interest for the Dems for conditions to improve. The midterms are their goal

[SisterK]

I agree with you
it would have been better to shut the government down and take the time to draft a conservative budget

[SisterK]

DOGE’s Work Is Meaningless Unless Republicans Get Serious About Cutting Spending

so true

[SisterK]

But failure by congressional Republicans to codify cuts to these items and other wasteful spending into law threatens to jeopardize the watchdog group’s success.

not childish hyperbole but reality