You ain’t seen nothing yet — and you won’t
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All that waste the DOGE TEAM identified? Republicans managed to implement less than 1% of the suggested cuts, and that’ll be all she wrote: election season begins in September.
“Republicans nearly stumbled at cutting 0.13% of the budget in this rescission package, and only 0.9 % of the waste that the DOGE team claimed to have identified. [Although] The Wall Street Journal reports today that the GOP now plans another rescission effort ...”
The passage of the rescissions package again showed off Trump’s ability to muscle legislation through the narrow GOP majorities in Congress and pressure holdout Republican lawmakers to get in line. The cuts are the first time a White House has accomplished clawbacks in more than a quarter-century, and White House officials made clear that they would pursue additional reductions.
It ain’t happening:
Morrisey: “I'll believe that when I see it. It seems more likely that they will focus on the next budget cycle, and that the reductions there will be similarly limited if they exist at all. In fact, one has to wonder whether the next budget gives the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a new lease on life. Democrats will demand it, and Republicans seem barely able to cut this even when everyone's looking. Stay tuned.”