{"id":2377638,"date":"2024-12-08T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waltz-says-doge-cutting-trillions-of-government-spending-is-practical-outlook-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T15:04:52","slug":"waltz-says-doge-cutting-trillions-of-government-spending-is-practical-outlook-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waltz-says-doge-cutting-trillions-of-government-spending-is-practical-outlook-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltz says DOGE cutting trillions of government spending is \u2018practical\u2019 outlook &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fwaltz-says-doge-cutting-trillions-of-government-spending-is-practical-outlook-washington-examiner%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=2377638&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--><p>In a \u200drecent statement,Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) emphasized his belief that the Department of Government Efficiency will play a crucial role in preventing \u200cthe U.S. from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">facing \u2063fiscal challenges due<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soaring-interest-rates-punish-consumers-and-taxpayers-2\/\" title=\"High interest rates burden consumers and taxpayers\">excessive \u200bfederal spending<\/a>. He described his vision of cutting trillions from\u2064 government expenditures as a &#8220;practical&#8221; approach to\u2062 managing the budget more\u200b effectively. this initiative aligns with broader efforts to enhance government\u2062 efficiency and address concerns about \u2064the national debt.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Waltz says DOGE cutting trillions of government spending is &lsquo;practical&rsquo; outlook<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1904511\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-waltz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Walz<\/a> (R-FL) expressed his confidence in the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-government-efficiency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> to keep the U.S. from falling &ldquo;off the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/federal-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">financial cliff<\/a>.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In the weeks since President-elect Donald Trump won the Oval Office, he&rsquo;s named Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to be the volunteer heads of DOGE. While they aren&rsquo;t government officials, it is their job to create &ldquo;a lean team of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-and-ramaswamy-reveal-top-four-things-to-know-about-doge-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Musk and Ramaswamy reveal top four things to know about DOGE - Washington Examiner\">small-government crusaders&#038;rdquo<\/a>; to work closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget. Waltz fielded a question about the new department on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/foxnews.com\/shows\/one-nation-with-brian-kilmeade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">One Nation with Brian Kilmeade<\/a><\/em>  Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve been in Congress too, when business people get very frustrated when they try to fix Congress. Can you see a way forward to cut a trillion or two out of our budget? Is that practical?&rdquo; host Brian Kilmeade asked.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2719274&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=82571e9a69ae70d9d99b5a0f07805263\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I do think it&rsquo;s practical, Brian. You&rsquo;re talking about people that have transformed whole industries: space, automobile, energy, right? Even investments into healthcare,&rdquo; Waltz said, referring to Musk and Ramaswamy. &ldquo;So, we do need that mindset and I do think there is massive amounts that can and should and have to be cut. The balance sheet just isn&rsquo;t sustainable anymore. So it&rsquo;s really not an option and we shouldn&rsquo;t wait until we go off the financial cliff to start taking meaningful action.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy claimed he expected &ldquo;certain agencies to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3232691\/ramaswamy-deep-cuts-coming-government-agencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deleted outright<\/a>&rdquo; under Trump&rsquo;s administration, which lead many to speculate he was referring to the Department of Education. Ramaswamy called to abolish the department as recently as last summer while running his own campaign for president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musk is notorious for his mass layoffs upon purchasing Twitter, which is now known as X. The platform whittled its staff to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/musk-led-twitter-layoffs-less-than-2000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fewer than 2,000<\/a>&nbsp;following multiple rounds of lay offs and mass resignation. More than half of the employees that were at the tech company before Musk purchased it are no longer there in the name of cutting costs and boosting profit.<\/p>\n<p>Trump named Waltz his national security advisor in the days since winning the election, which prompted the Florida congressman to resign, leaving his seat open in the House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1904511\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1904511\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waltz believes DOGE&#8217;s trillion-dollar cuts are &#8216;practical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2377639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24060637948570-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23466,32412,46351,21461,32076],"class_list":["post-2377638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-doge","tag-government-spending","tag-practical-outlook","tag-waltz","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24060637948570-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377638","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377642,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377638\/revisions\/2377642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}