http://www.investors.com/politics/edito ... ding-cuts/Trump's actual budget plan is still more than a month away, but talk of spending cuts has already started to raise alarm bells. Not from Democrats who can be counted on to fight every spending cut — outside of Defense — but from supposedly fiscally conservative Republicans.
As The Hill notes, Trump "may be headed into a big fight with Republican lawmakers with his plans for dramatic cuts to federal spending."
It quotes a number of top Republicans warning the newly elected Republican president against cutting programs big and small.
Sen. Orrin Hatch says that shuttering the highly politicized Legal Services Corp. isn't worth the fight. Sen. Lisa Murkowski doesn't want any cuts to the federal government's "essential air service program." Missouri Republicans say they'll fight to protect a federal catfish inspection program.
These are all nickel-and-dime programs. But the early resistance to getting rid of even these piddly programs is emblematic of the larger problem — Republicans talk a good game on spending cuts, but tend to wilt once actual spending cuts get proposed.
It's worth pointing out that the last time Republicans controlled the White House and Congress during President Bush's first six years in office, there was an explosion in federal spending.
When Bush issued his first budget in 2001, he proposed holding overall spending growth to an average 3.5% in his first five years. Actual spending shot up 7%.
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May not be so easy. The tax cuts maybe, but plenty of Republican pork in the budget:
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
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