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 show 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.