Republicans Serious About Spending Cuts? Prove It

For years, Republicans have warned that Washington’s spending habits imperil America’s future. Yet too often, when the moment arrives to impose real discipline, our party blinks. Republicans accurately diagnose the disease but often cry in protest like a small child when the time arrives to take the medicine.

The most recent example of this is how too many congressional Republicans are clamoring for the need to “do something” on the expanded COVID-19 Obamacare subsidies. Doing something, in this case, means turning off planned spending reductions and therefore allocating additional taxpayer money for an expanded portion of a law they used to say they hated (Obamacare). The subsidies were enacted by Democrats for temporary pandemic relief.

Republican intestinal fortitude on keeping planned spending cuts in place will be tested again next year when the inevitable and insufferable debate heats up about whether the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s scheduled spending reductions should go into effect in an election year. How the party handles this matter will reveal whether Republicans are finally prepared to break spending patterns.

Read the entire article HERE: Republicans, serious about spending cuts? Prove it – Washington Times