Congress hates ideas to cut spending. Whether we are talking about Republicans or Democrats, they seem to be incapable of taking any concrete action to lead on the idea of balancing the budget and paying down America’s approximate $36 trillion in debt. Our national debt is emerging as the greatest threat to national security, yet Congress refuses to follow the lead of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run by Elon Musk, to make reforms to government spending programs. The fact that the Senate has rejected ideas to use the budget process to cut spending is a very bad sign going forward.
The evidence of a lack of will on the part of the Senate to cut any spending was clear recently when Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), offered an amendment to the Senate budget resolution on February 20, 2025 to cut federal spending by at least $1.5 trillion mirroring his “six penny plan” The Paul amendment sets up a process to balance the federal budget in five years by cutting spending 6% per year by creating a new budget function that freezes in programs spending, in addition to calling on Congress to find a 6% cut every year for five years.
1 Like