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It’s Time To Make The Cuts

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The amount of fraud and waste discovered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is amazing. It’s time to see the waste they discovered removed. If you found termites in your basement, you would call an exterminator. Somehow not all of Congress wants to deal with the termites!

On Monday, The Daily Caller reported:

Speaker Mike Johnson is putting pressure on Senate Republicans to pass President Donald Trump’s rescissions package.

Johnson told reporters Monday that clawing back just $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid should be an easy vote for Republican senators. The speaker’s remarks come as several GOP senators have said they oppose some of the proposed cuts and signaled they will vote against the rescissions request if the package is not amended.

If the Congress wants to remain in Republican hands, they need to respect the wishes of the voters and cut!

The article concludes:

Collins and other GOP senators, including Lisa Murkowski of Alsaka and Mike Rounds of South Dakota, have expressed concerns about the potential impact of cuts to public broadcasting programs for rural areas in the respective states.

“I hope you feel the urgency that I’m trying to express on behalf of the people in rural Alaska and I think in many parts of rural America where this is their lifeline,” Murkowski told White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought during an appropriations hearing in June.

The White House and congressional leadership have countered that the proposed cuts are necessary to begin making headway on the country’s $37 trillion national debt.

“This is supposed to be the lower hanging fruit,” Johnson continued. “As usual, I asked them [the Senate] not to modify our work.”

Trump has said that he will not take kindly to the Senate weakening cuts to public broadcasting within the rescissions package.

“It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Rescissions Bill,” Trump wrote Thursday on the social media platform Truth Social. “Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement.”

If Public Broadcasting were an unbiased network supplying unbiased news and programming to Americans, it might be worth funding. But that is not what it is. Also, it is time we got back to funding the things that the Constitution tells the federal government to fund and defunding everything else. That would surely balance the federal budget quickly!

There Is A Way To Cut Spending Without The Democrats

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For whatever reason, the Democrat party seems to be reluctant to cut government spending. They do not seem to be particularly concerned about the waste and possible fraud that is occurring. Because the Republican majority in the Senate is not enough to break a filibuster, the Democrats can easily block any savings the Republicans try to pass. Well, there may be another way to approach this that will result in the savings to taxpayers that the American voters want. For the sake of this article, I will ignore the fact that the Democrats are taking a political risk in opposing spending cuts.

On Thursday, The Patriot Clash posted an article with a possible solution to the stalemate. I don’t claim to understand this completely, but hopefully the Republicans in Congress will understand it enough to do it!

The article reports:

Now this is the kind of news we like to hear—Elon Musk teaming up with Senate Republicans to finally take a sledgehammer to government waste. And the best part? It could be done with just 51 votes, meaning not a single Democrat has to be on board.

This brilliant idea came from none other than Sen. Rand Paul, who pitched Musk on a massive “rescission package” during a closed-door lunch on Wednesday. The plan? Claw back tens—if not hundreds—of billions of dollars in federal spending that has already been approved but hasn’t been spent yet. That’s right, instead of letting Congress continue to blow through taxpayer money like a spoiled teenager with a stolen credit card, this package would undo wasteful spending and return fiscal sanity to Washington.

Rand Paul has been working toward fiscal sanity in America for a very long time.

The article notes:

Elon Musk, who has been aggressively slashing government bloat through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was reportedly elated when he realized the plan could pass with a simple majority. According to Sen. Josh Hawley, Musk “didn’t realize it could be done at 51.” And let’s be honest—why would he? The idea that government can actually reduce spending is about as rare as a Democrat who believes in border security.

Here’s the best part: Republicans hold 53 seats in the Senate right now. That means even if every single Democrat throws a tantrum and votes against it, the bill still has a great shot at passing. No need for endless negotiations, no ridiculous 60-vote filibuster—just Republicans doing what they were elected to do and cutting the fat.

The article concludes:

Rand Paul, ever the budget hawk, said he’d like to see at least $500 billion in cuts. Now, imagine if we actually pulled that off—half a trillion dollars in bloated, wasteful spending gone. That’s money that wouldn’t be funneled into pet projects, foreign aid, or bloated agencies that exist solely to expand government power.

Now, of course, the big question is will Republicans actually get this done? Because if they don’t, voters are going to be rightfully furious. This is a golden opportunity to put Washington’s reckless spending in check—and they better not blow it.

This is your chance, Republicans, do what the voters want or lose your majorities!