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Jeff Mockensturm's avatar

Trump is not leading on the reduction of spending front - he's letting some members of Congress and Elon Musk tilt that windmill. There's a LOT more than just "fraud and abuse" in the system and this is quite well known. Entertaining anecdotes don't amount to the size in reductions needed, but they do help sell the case. The details in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" aren't available - but they darn sure better include zeroing out vast lines of "green" bullshit - as all that is nothing but a sop to Democrat donors.

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Bobbi's avatar

Reducing the size of Federal government employees, selling/renting government properties no longer needed, purging Social security and Medicare/Medicaid roles and expelling illegals and the hold they have on social services and healthcare will make a big difference but it won't be enough. If our conservative leadership can't do the hard work that needs doing, they are no better than liberals. Hard to have much faith.

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