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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ElwoodBlues · M Best Comment

Stop agricultural subsidies to big business farms and stop paying farmers to NOT grow crops.

See https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/cutting-federal-farm-subsidies
And https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2023/may/commercial-farms-led-in-government-payments-in-2021/

CedricH · M

@ElwoodBlues 100% in agreement.

ElwoodBlues · M

@CedricH Your list seems to mostly reference urban recipients of government largesse; let's not ignore the rural recipients!

CedricH · M

@ElwoodBlues That list is basically tailored to suit the preferences of a Republican government. It‘s just a minor fraction of federal spending that ought to be downsized, reformed or repealed.
Not that I‘m a Republican, but if you want to appeal to them, you better suggest cuts to programs they dislike and without upsetting any of their core constituencies (e.g farmers).