bighairymike: But my understanding this was temporary for thirty days and to be replaced with separate appropriation bills developed under regular order.

To quote Phil Connors: "What a waste of time."

First, I believe that the spending cuts by the Freedom Clown Show only applied to discretionary spending (minus the Defense, Veterans, and Homeland Security portions of discretionary spending, as you noted). If it was for 30 days, as you also noted, that's what, a savings of about $2 billon.

Now let's see... in a $33 trillion debt, $2 billion is 0.006%.

Or, statistically, nothing.

You could eliminate HHS, EDUC, HUD, STATE, DOE, DOJ, USDA, DOT, and NASA and still only trim less than $500 billion annually from the debt. Entire departments and their jobs, which would destroy America.

The only real ways to meaningfully address the debt are through cuts to Defense, SS, and Medicare/Medicaid and/or by raising taxes. Oh, and interest on the debt is a big chunk, too, over a trillion dollars a year.

So what'll make it through both the House and the Senate?

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