Among the top priorities for newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson was his announced intention to form a bipartisan panel to cut massive spending that has led to an unsustainable $33 trillion national debt.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. Among the top priorities for newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, was his announced intention to form a bipartisan panel to cut massive spending that has led to an unsustainable $33 trillion national debt.
I have longed to see Cabinet members and members of Congress come before committees and defend their proposals for new spending. They should be asked how current and past spending has or has not achieved the goals stated in their legislation and agencies. Often, there are no goals in the legislation. It’s spending for the sake of spending. Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel offers a good starting point.
There’s plenty more you can find in her column and elsewhere that unnecessarily contributes to the debt and resulting higher prices we all pay for mortgages, gasoline, food and other necessities. As I recall, some members who had been screaming loudest about the closings later tried having it both ways and took credit for saving taxpayer money. You have to admire politicians who can say one thing one day and the opposite another day. Hardly anyone notices or seems to care, and that’s a major part of the debt problem.
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