A list of productive spending cuts Congress could pass in a 2025 budget reconciliation bill

- Public sector wages are on average 17% higher than private-sector equivalents while benefits are 47% higher than those of private-sector workers.
Converging private and public sector retirement benefits could save upwards of $230 billion over ten years.

- Rolling back food stamp increases

- Tighten work requirements for SNAP recipients

- End categorical eligibility (meaning one wouldn’t automatically receive SNAP benefits because one receives certain other social benefits)

- Restrict SNAP food subsidies to non-junk food options

- Restrict welfare for immigrants

- End student loan forgiveness & cap federal student loans

- Introduce block grant Medicaid & stop Medicaid financing gimmicks by State governments

- Remove ACA repayment limits after an overpayment of health subsidies occurred

- Fully privatize Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac

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LamontCranston · M

Difficult to disagree with these recommendations. Keep them coming and send them to Elon and Vivek.

A liberal commentator on a cable shw decried such cuts because they "would put Americans out of work".

CedricH · M

@LamontCranston Yes those poor government employees, how will they possibly find a job in the real economy.
I gotta say, I find Ramaswamy vile and repulsive while his views on foreign policy are outright dangerous. But credit where credit is due, I was ecstatic about his WSJ op-ed in which he and Musk sketched out their plans for DOGE.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Mothball most of the US carrier fleet and release all the ships personnel, keeping the air wings for redployment to stateside land bases for defence duties..😷

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman In fact, the carrier fleet has to be enlarged.

Theyitis · 36-40, M

How are any of these potential cuts “productive”?

CedricH · M

@Theyitis They‘re productive by efficiently reallocating scarce resources.

NativePortlander1970

What we need to do is to cut the Pentagon by 50%, the military industrial complex is the majority of the budget. We need to downsize the alphabet agencies, fire about 75% of the upper brass bureaucrats in each one. Then we need to cut out pet pork barrel spending projects politicians graft to their donors.

Social programs are NOT the problem, they actually account for barely less than 10% of the annual budget.

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CedricH · M

@NativePortlander1970 Sorry, but you‘re clinically insane. 1984 is precisely what would materialize if you were in charge of US foreign and defense policy.

NativePortlander1970

@CedricH We in the Americas, from the Arctic, to the tip of Brazil, and the Islands, will enjoy our prosperity, free from the conflicts of Europe and the Middle East and North Africa.

CedricH · M

@NativePortlander1970 Keep dreaming. I‘m sure it‘ll help you sleep at night.

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