Senate Republicans Again Show They Aren’t Serious About Cutting 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.
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.
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.
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