Thursday, October 18, 2018

Trump to Cabinet officials: Reduce your spending by 5%

That's rather modest.

4 comments:

edutcher said...

5% cut is better than nothing and he'll hold them to it.

AllenS said...

If Trump can get them to cut 5%, that would be a good start. 5% more next year would be great. Then, ...

chickelit said...

The Departments of Guns and Butter should take a 5% hit as well, recipients included.

Some Seppo said...

I'm with AllenS. 5% per year for the next 6 years would help balance annual cash flow.

Add to that decertifying all Fed gov employee unions and the budget should be balanced by the time Pence is inaugurated. Means test SS and Medicare even more than they are and remove the income limit on contributions and all of a sudden the debt can begin to be brought down. I think I saw that 6% of Fed revenue is just for interest on that debt.

But you have to have an R* majority in three of the *four* branches of government and the pelotas gigante to just do it.

*Fake Republicans need not apply