{"id":1824081,"date":"2023-01-25T18:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824081"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:08:39","slug":"reduce-federal-spending-by-cutting-back-anywhere-and-everywhere-a-guide-for-bladder-shy-financially-illiterate-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reduce-federal-spending-by-cutting-back-anywhere-and-everywhere-a-guide-for-bladder-shy-financially-illiterate-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Federal Spending By Cutting Back Anywhere And Everywhere: A Guide For Bladder Shy, Financially Illiterate Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freduce-federal-spending-by-cutting-back-anywhere-and-everywhere-a-guide-for-bladder-shy-financially-illiterate-republicans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824081&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The Netflix self-help documentary begins \u201cGet Smart With Money,\u201d a voice actor says, \u201cHow do you get ahead without taking out loans?\u201d That, in a sentence, is the maddening thought process that animates Washington \u2014 Republicans, Democrats, and the media alike.<\/p>\n<p>As we approach the federal debt ceiling, Republicans are doing the thing where they swear they won\u2019t raise it without spending cuts, only to inevitably trip over themselves when asked the most innocuous, straightforward questions pertaining to what specifically they would like to reduce spending on.<\/p>\n<p>Axios Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/25\/mccarthy-house-republicans-debt-ceiling-medicare-budget-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previewed<\/a> This is the next show. \u201cFiscal conservatives want to balance the federal budget,\u201d It said. \u201cFormer President Trump has warned his party to leave Medicare and Social Security untouched. It\u2019s basically impossible to do both \u2014 and every way House Republicans could try to square that circle comes with political risk.\u201d Included in the article was a chart showing how much cutting would need to take place in broad swaths of the government \u2014\u00a0\u201cdefense spending,\u201d Social Security, Medicare, etc. \u2014 in order to balance the federal budget over the course of a decade. <\/p>\n<p>There would have to be a 26 per cent reduction with everything on the table. You can remove \u201cdefense spending\u201d \u2014\u00a0which more accurately is military contract welfare \u2014 veteran benefits, Social Security, and Medicare (essentially, the most popular programs), there would need to be an 85 percent reduction in spending in every other area of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like balancing your household budget and removing any proposals to reduce your home size or to cut back on premium brand groceries. If you\u2019re not going to touch those, you\u2019re going to have to make up for it by drastically chopping at the budget elsewhere \u2014 vacations, entertainment, beauty grooming, new clothing, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The intent is to scare Republicans, who, without fail, face that reality, and suddenly can\u2019t blink or speak. They might even come up with a politically suicide proposal. \u201creform\u201d (i.e \u201ccut back\u201d) Social Security as millions of Americans are on the cusp of eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>This round will probably be a repeat, but if House Republicans were serious about making spending cuts at least practical, if not immediately achievable (Biden and Senate Democrats will nix any attempt), it\u2019s easily done.<\/p>\n<p>First, there\u2019s no reason for the government to hold itself to a timeline on when the budget should be balanced. It is way too ambitious for the cowardly and worthless members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The second is to reduce spending. Start from somewhere. Anywhere. Take Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page-attachments\/Festivus%202023%20Clean%20AJS%20edits%205p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government waste audit<\/a> Turn the wheel. Wherever the arrow lands, whether it\u2019s the nearly $2 billion for \u201cmaintaining 77,000 empty Federal buildings,\u201d or the $200,000 for the Pentagon\u2019s \u201cStarbucks espresso machines,\u201d Get a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If House Republicans were serious about making spending cuts at least practical, if not immediately achievable, it&#8217;s easily done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1757052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[16177,13209,11865,14226,3974,15399,6519,16484,7104,3756,3834],"class_list":["post-1824081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-shy","tag-bladder","tag-cutting","tag-everywhere","tag-federal","tag-financially","tag-guide","tag-illiterate","tag-reduce","tag-republicans","tag-spending"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}