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Domestic spending is already going down

Kevin McCarthy wants to pass a couple of spending bills sometime soon, but as usual he's having trouble with the far-right wing of his party. However, Rep. Chip Roy says he thinks things can be worked out:

McCarthy’s biggest hurdle in the funding debate is a bloc of House Freedom Caucus members who want even deeper reductions to the spending bills after already forcing the California Republican to slash far below the levels he agreed to with Biden last month.

....“At some point, we can figure those out a little bit on the fly,” added Roy, a prominent Freedom Caucus member. “We’re trying to work in good faith, again focused on the pre-Covid-level spending.”

I've got good news for Chip! All he cares about is domestic discretionary spending—welfare, foreign aid, welfare, green energy, and, of course, welfare—and it turns out the debt ceiling deal has already put us right on track to hit pre-COVID spending levels:

It should be smooth sailing from here on out.

6 thoughts on “Domestic spending is already going down

  1. Salamander

    I can tell Old (Cow)Chip how to cut an immediate $4B off "discretionary" spending: dump apartheid Israel. They seem to be doing all right economically and no longer need to be on the dole. Any "enemies" they still have are of their own making.

  2. Altoid

    Clever of you to show percent of GDP on the graph when ol' Chip of course means nominal dollars. 'Cause everybody knows that's the only honest kind, pardner

  3. DFPaul

    Surely the biggest and most important failure of journalism in our time is that the public, as reported by polls at least, views the Republican party as better at economic stuff, job growth, lowering the deficit, restraining spending etc. The true "red pill" is looking at the stats and realizing every point there is completely wrong.

    Yet the media seems stuck on the story that the GOP is the "good at business" party and the Democrats are the "good at fairness" party. I guess the media can't give up that story because it's important to their business model that each team have a strength. Certainly this had a lot to do with millions of people holding their noses and voting for Trump. "He's a Republican. He may be a jerk, but at least the economy will be good" or some such.

    I mean, for gosh sakes, the stock market went down under 8 years of George Bush 2. That's really quite hard to achieve.

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