"...starve the beast..."
FedGov is so entwined in our economy that to starve the beast so as to break the chain of tyranny would collapse the nation. Perhaps that is the only way out so the rebuilding can begin.
The fedgov is not going to voluntarily starve itself. The people involved in the fedgov are not altruistic saints performing their service for free.
If the fedgov is to starve, it will be done by political force, actual force or it will not be done at all.