Senate Republicans Again Show They Aren’t Serious About Cutting Spending
Hypocrites. Get it through your heads that Republicans do not intend to cut spending.
How can Elon Musk and DOGE make any significant changes if Congress is not serious about slashing spending?
The Senate Republicans again showed us they do not care about spending cuts.
Well, except for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).
The Senate bill will spend $342 billion on defense and the border but only provides $516 billion in cuts over four years.
Our debt is over $36,000,000,000,000.
A procedural vote led to the 50-hour debate, which ended Thursday night. The “vote-a-rama” followed, with only two Republican amendments passing.
Over half of the Republicans voted against Paul’s amendment, which would have cut $1.4 trillion over 10 years.
So last night, Senate Republicans adopted a budget resolution to spend another $342 billion on defense/border enforcement and allow for $516 billion in cuts over 4 years. They held a "vote-a-rama" on amendments but it was pretty weak. The only good amendment was from Rand Paul.… pic.twitter.com/fZy4cGiiC2
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) February 21, 2025
Why do I despise both parties? Because they’re both big government and love spending.
The Republicans are hypocrites.
They praise DOGE, but they are part of the problem. At least the Democrats are mostly honest about wanting a big and bloated government.
Stop choosing the lesser of two evils. Evil is evil.
Get serious about spending cuts and downsizing the government.
Daniel wrote:
So 29 of the 53 Republicans couldn’t affirm support for cutting $1.4 trillion out of $89 trillion projected spending and $22 trillion projected deficits, which is more realistically like $100 trillion in spending and at least $25 trillion in deficits because CBO is literally projected no recession over 10 years, no extra spending, and 2.8% sustained GDP growth.
Again, if this is your position, then fine, but stop campaigning on cutting inflation.
So 29 of the 53 Republicans couldn't affirm support for cutting $1.4 trillion out of $89 trillion projected spending and $22 trillion projected deficits, which is more realistically like $100 trillion in spending and at least $25 trillion in deficits because CBO is literally… https://t.co/LHfZYFXcpd
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) February 21, 2025
He continued:
Also, it’s important to note that DOGE is going around bragging about “trillions in cuts,” to the point that they are now prominently teasing out the potential to cut Americans a $5000 check. Yet, when it comes to Congress, we can’t even get 40% of Republicans behind the notion of cutting $1.4 trillion over 10 years (remember the checks would be cut in full immediately assuming 10 year savings that a future Dem would certainly claw back).
So something is off. If these are easy “Waste fraud and abuse” cuts, then why is the admin not pressuring Rs in congress to codify. And if the reason Rs refuse to codify is because they are scared to actually reduce programs, then why is the admin acting like they are engaging in “painless” cuts. Something has to give. They both can’t be true.
Also, it’s important to note that DOGE is going around bragging about “trillions in cuts,” to the point that they are now prominently teasing out the potential to cut Americans a $5000 check. Yet, when it comes to Congress, we can’t even get 40% of Republicans behind the notion…
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) February 21, 2025
DOGE vs the Swamp, round 1 — the Swamp wins https://t.co/spqMqePDwZ
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) February 21, 2025
Booyah! We stayed up all night to pass a budget resolution that fortifies the border, gives resources for President Trump’s immigration crack down, strengthens the military, pays for itself, AND reins in the out of control unelected bureaucrats!
— Senator Ashley Moody (@SenAshleyMoody) February 21, 2025
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Unfortunately, politicians never get punished for spending too much. They will get punished if it is perceived that they did not do everything to draw more money into the district. That is why most defense projects are spread out to create jobs in as many congressional districts as possible. It makes it impossible for congressmen to vote against them because they’d be voting to destroy jobs in their district.
This has to be a supplemental appropriations bill, right? The FY23 appropriations bill (which I believe was passed as the Defense Authorization) was over $800B. I’m not sure what the actual spending was for FY23. But, I suspect it was appreciably more than $800B. So, at ‘only’ $342B this has to be a bill to get us through the rest of this fiscal year…I guess. How much have they already spent on Defense for FY25?
Thune and Johnson aren’t going to survive if they don’t get back to passing an annual budget rather than these piecemeal appropriations bill. We haven’t had an actual budget passed since 2019…which is absolutely unbelievable.
Real threats by the President against these weak ass senators
MAGA storming their offices demanding tax cuts
They need to be very scared that they will be fully exposed and/ or loss their elections
Primary everyone of them. . Use all the insane spending items DOGE has found in ads against them.
Both my Bama Senators voted in favor of the amendment for larger cuts to spending.
My man, Rand, proposed the amendment. Of course, Uniparty Mitch voted against it.
Ok? Not surprising that the SR Senator from KY opposes spending cuts, dude is a DC establishment hack.
The point of my original post was for everyone to review how their own Senators voted b/c 24 of the GoP Senators actually did the right thing. Then for y’all to make your displeasure known to them if they opposed the amendment offered by Sen Paul. Of course this assumes that you approve of making larger cuts to out of control Federal Gov’t spending.
This is exactly what I feared.
Anyone who says they can’t cut $1.4T out of $89T of multi-year spending, while you are running $2T annual deficits, should be fired. IMO the Republican Party has the fiscal responsibilty of the Democrats 50 years ago, and that includes Trump. Where was Trump’s leadership with this Senate action? Musk, who showed he could cut 80% at Twitter, may be the only serious person in the room. If the Republicans turn their noses up at DOGE and refuse to codify spending reductions, they will lose the mid-terms and that will be it – back to UniParty.
Legislators take a tiny percentage of all the money that flows through Washington, so they need lots of money to flow to make it worthwhile.
It’s indirect but it’s a straight percentage.
Certainly we knew this was coming, right? The Uniparty hasn’t been suddenly converted to MAGA just because Trump won.
This legislative body is the REASON we have trillions in debt. THEY spent it. For themselves and their cronies.
Of course they’re not going to cut anything.
If we’re reducing the size of government, Congress needs to reduce spending for all agencies. Where is the reduction?
cuts over four years
Here’s part of our problem. We need to stop talking about “over 4 years” and “over 10 years.” We need to ask “How much does it cut right now?” “What is the budget for this year?”
Get rid of this game they play over years where the budget won’t even apply, and just pass a budget for THIS year’s spending. They won’t be able to pass the buck, then.
^^^. This exactly. A Congressional budget is good for the specific year for which it was produced, the following year isn’t even guaranteed to follow last year’s budget. Unless of course, it is that omnibus budget that carries all of the pork from the previous year. So a one year budget, let us add the zero for a ten year return if we see it happening.
Given that the $1.5 T return over ten years has to be divided by 10 for this year’s actual budget the number doesn’t sound all that much, but our elected leadership won’t even consider that.
Mine is Ted Cruz
I called his office, was calm and not rude and the person hung up on me after sarcastically telling me he had 6 years and
Couldn’t be primaried , which I knew
So I emailed his DC office to tell him of my poor interaction and lack of support for his voting
Why were you calling Sen Cruz office? He voted in favor of the amendment offered by Sen Paul which would have made far larger cuts.
It was Sen Cornyn, your other TX Senator, voted against the amendment offering bigger spending cuts.
When I loooed I thought it said Cruz voted against.
At the very least his office could have corrected me but chose to be a rude wise ass
True, being polite and civil doesn’t cost anything though in fairness they are probably getting the business from all the fat piggy special interest phone calls raising hell from the other side. An afternoon of listening to lefty bots, drones and NPC raise Cain and complain may have shortened their tolerance for electoral threats.
My mistake it their bad
>”Our debt is over $36,000,000,000,000.”
Please do not say it is “our debt”. It isn’t. My debt is actually $0. I owe the government fecking nothing beyond what I’ve paid in taxes over the years. The federal government’s debt is $36,000,000,000,000. That is all.
The solution is term limits. When Congress became a career the public lost. When keeping the gravy train going became number one, the people’s needs became second.
Good luck with that, they will never agree to their own demise
Republicans know what Democrats know about spending cuts–sounds good in speeches but don’t you dare do it in office. Do it and die. All spending is connected to someone some where. Everyone understands the debt problem and everyone understands the problem is the fault of someone else somewhere else. The Senate has done all it will for now so it is up to the House and go from there.
Invertebrates…