Posted on 03/11/2025 8:33:59 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Perry, the former House Freedom Caucus chairman, spoke to Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief and host of The Alex Marlow Show as the House passed a continuing resolution (CR), a stop-gap spending bill that freezes government funding for six months.
Although conservatives have long abhorred CRs, especially as recent CRs have kept Biden-era spending levels and other policies in place, Perry and members of the Freedom Caucus have championed the need to pass the current stop-gap spending bill, believing it will enable Trump’s agenda.
The Keystone State conservative said that the advancement of the CR serves as a significant victory on many levels, as congressional leadership has been barred from passing an omnibus spending bill, which is a spending bill that conservatives hate even more than a CR.
“What’s different and the context about this is that we didn’t get our appropriations done, but our leadership wanted to do an omnibus. They wanted that four corners deal. The CR is not the four corners deal. They don’t want the CR; they’ve been forced into it by people like me and quite honestly, the president,” Perry told The Alex Marlow Show.
While many conservatives have loathed the continuation of Biden policies through prior CRs, now that Trump is president, Perry said that the 47th president has moved to block, stop, and slash spending government-wide.
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“The president said he wants to start balance the budget. It’s not going to happen in one year, but we got to get on the path to that. And it means making some hard choices,” he continued.
He said that Congress needs to pursue policies that will ensure that Tom Homan has “all the money he needs” to the secure the border, that wasteful spending is being slashed, that inflation is being reduced, and that the Trump agenda is codified into law and cannot be reversed by a later administration.
“That is what we should be able to run in a year and a half from now,” he added, referring to the 2026 midterm elections.
RINOs think an income tax rate cut has to be “paid for”. This is a huge problem with RINOs.
Let’s make it happen Scott and I have been in the room with him he is local to me I can definitely go first name with him.
Huge problem.
Stopping spending increases, is the first step toward cutting … I applaud THIS CR
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Not sure I follow the logic but willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
And again, it doesn’t do that.
We have 36 trillion dollars in debt and interest is accrued.
Freezing things does not freeze things. The accrued interest adds to the debt and then the interest becomes even larger.
There is no “good start”. The numbers are too big for some small token step in a particular direction. You have to accept devastation or you’re not solving the problem.
What’s your solution Kimesabe given the characteristics (or properties) of this problem?
How would YOU solve the problem given the numbers in the House and Senate?
Need to change budget scoring from static to dynamic. Then proper tax RATE cuts could score historically as revenue increases. Not certain how to do it as rats would filibuster such change.
Do enough good now to grow congressional margins in midterms.
The EPA, CDC and USAID are clearly bloated.
Eighty percent cuts are feasible for them.
Trump was elected in November. This is March.
Many needed and feasible cuts could have been identified and placed in the CR.
The clock is ticking.
“devastation”
Compare 2025 spending (and population) to say 1995, 1982, 1969 and 1954 spending (and population).
If the US government didn’t need an entity in 1982 it probably doesn’t need it now.
How many people did the CDC have in 1969?
Tax rates should be dynamic.
Programs should be supported by specific taxes so program costs can be brought under control.
SNAP might be 20% funded by a sales tax on food and beverages not WIC eligible.
Medicaid might be 10% federally supported by taxes on fuel and electricity.
The CR is another nightmare that should not have been passed. It’s another massive spending bill at lat years rates for the most part. CRs should be banned. A budgets should be balanced only when that balance includes the interest on the national debt.
Reducing the deficit does nothing. It’s a gimic they’ve been using for years hence being $36+ trillion in debt.
We have discussed the broader realities in other threads and you may not have caught them. The magnitude of the debt problem compels devastation and that is in the context of some bizarre scenarios that will not happen and therefore there is no solution.
For example, broad execution of high net worth or even medium net worth people and confiscation of their inheritance. That is the magnitude of the debt. There is no other way to address it because compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.
Or if you think that is bizarre and extreme, maybe one presents that idea to establish the endpoint on the extreme spectrum, and then it makes default on the debt somehow more palatable.
But make no mistake things like CR debates and budgets and things of that nature. . . They no longer make any sense. The mathematics of compound interest has overwhelmed everything.
We have discussed this. Because numbers are too big. There is no other solution than overwhelming devastation.
Elected republicans don’t seem to understand the reasons why republican voters have such high levels of distrust for elected republicans.
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