Look at all that effort that the Democrat Party wasted by firebombing Tesla dealerships. All they had to do was wait for the Republican-led Congress to “eff it up” with the DOGE cuts.
After DOGE went to the trouble of identifying more than $2 trillion in fraudulent and abusive use of taxpayer money, the total amount that might—might—be trimmed from the bloated federal budget is only $175 billion. That’s what we’re stuck with, at least for now.
And Congress is going to have its first big test on whether they’re capable of cutting any waste from the budget, starting next week.
White House budget director Russ Vought announced this week that the first rescission package of DOGE cuts will be sent to Congress on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. I know everyone’s upset that the “Big, Beautiful Bill” doesn’t have any DOGE cuts in it, but Senate rules prevent that.
The DOGE cuts have to either be implemented through rescission packages that don’t require 60 votes in the Senate, or through impoundment, which would just get blocked by the Democrat activists who parade as judges in the court system. So, rescission it is.
The first package that the Trump White House is sending to Congress has $9.4 billion in cuts. It cuts funding for the thoroughly corrupt USAID, as well as NPR and PBS. It might seem like this is the lowest-hanging fruit possible, and it is to normal people. But this will be a serious test for the Republican-led Congress.
During the eight years that Barack Hussein Obama was in the White House, the US averaged an annual budget deficit of $911 billion per year.
During President Trump’s first term, he cut the budget deficit to around $600 billion per year. The only reason why his deficit average ended up higher than that was because of the drunken-sailor spending that the federal government did in 2020 because of COVID.
During the most recent four-year period when we had an unelected, creepy, kid-sniffing dementia patient in the White House, the federal government ran a $1.7 TRILLION deficit every year.
That’s the rate that Congress is still spending your money at right now. This is why the pitiful $175 billion in DOGE cuts is only a drop in the bucket. Even if they cut all of it, we’d still be running a $1.525 trillion budget deficit.
The budget deficit would still be 250% higher than it was during Trump’s first term. Congress doesn’t even want to go back to 2019 levels of spending, which was already ridiculously high.
How long could you run a deficit in your household budget? I’ll bet it’s not 30 years like the US government!
Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House the last time that we had a balanced budget in this country. It’s kind of shocking when you realize that, isn’t it?
President Trump wasn’t even able to get the budget deficit down to George W. Bush levels ($300 billion per year) during his first term, and it was the fault of a Republican-controlled Congress then.
DOGE has been one of the most popular government initiatives in US history. 73% of Americans supported cutting the wasteful and fraudulent payments that DOGE uncovered. That’s about the same percentage that supported going to war with Germany and Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
And yet, many Republicans in Congress are already crapping their pants because of this tiny, $9.4 billion rescission package from the White House. One particularly stupid Republican—Congressman Don Bacon from Nebraska—says he doesn’t want to cut funding for NPR and PBS.
Dude, NPR and PBS are literally your political enemies! They would happily cut their own throats if it meant getting your opponent elected in 2026. They’d give their last breath singing the praises of your Democrat opponent, while wasting the tax dollars of your constituents to do it.
Are you retarded?
Congress could immediately stop inflation if they’d just freeze spending at 2019 levels. But they can’t even seem to do that.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s confident that this first $9.4 billion rescissions package will pass. I’m not sure he should be so confident. Republicans always talk a good game on the campaign trail. But when they see a nickel of taxpayer money that’s not flying out the door, their first instinct is never to give it back to you.
This tiny cut is the first big test of whether DOGE is going to be a success or a failure.