He can’t cut spending. No how. No way. All roads lead to inflation. You heard it here first.
Don’t let the good be the enemy of the perfect.
Not only will cutting employees help, even if marginally, their influence into other spending and practices will also disappear.
Arguing that “we can’t do anything” is simply going to accelerate a collapse. While ripping off a Band-Aid may be faster, it can also open the wound.
Jettisoning the recent cohort of imported ticks and leeches will also help. All of it helps. Even though our fixed obligations are massive, I’d rather have mitigating influences on inflation instead of having to eat the whole elephant at once. At least maybe we can carve it up a bit.
You’re right.
So, how about a huge tax cut instead? 
All jokes aside, he/they should follow the Clinton/Republican plan of the 90s, because it worked.
If they don’t do something, and soon, the interest on the debt will overtake incoming revenue.
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I pray this happens.
If we can all stop freaking out about DOGE, the results will be needed to start limiting and balancing the budget.
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Gee, if we could only get a major rival to collapse so we could stop spending so much money on the Military, it’d be 1997 all over again.
Much of what happened in the 90s was a result of the “peace dividend” and the ascendance of the internet.
I’m not disputing that government spending went down, it did. They also shuffled the cards a bit with Social security. Without the surplus of SS, the country would have been well into the red.
The conditions today are much different.
That said, I’m all for cutting spending to the bone.
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The only way I see to cut spending is to decommission ENTIRE departments, and sell all the buildings and assets.
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Beginning with the Department of Education!
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And followed by the Department of Government Efficiency. It is a redundant department that will be terribly inefficient and could lead to the appearances of corruption, or actual corrupt activities.
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It is ironic that they formed another department to get rid of departments. I don’t think it is a real government agency though, just a group that gives advice. We can all do that already.
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Sounds like they will have employees though. At least I thought I heard something about Elon putting out the call for hires on X or something.
Why don’t you apply. I’m sure they could benefit from your economic expertise.
Elon needs an expert “cloud yeller” to help with his EV manufacturing… Might work into his “gubberment” jobs… 
He only wants X users I think.
Maybe start with the government Xing the funding of Musk?
" Tesla
Musk’s automotive and energy company, known for its pioneering electric vehicles and its battery storage innovations, has received $41.9 million in federal contracts since 2008."
That would be a good start, but IMO will never happen.
Most “departments” are strategically spread across the country in such a way that members of congress won’t allow their states to take the hit. $$$$
They should follow the Blueprint of Clinton and the Republican congress, something like 10% across the board cuts to spread the pain so everyone loses something, otherwise no one loses anything and we keep heading down the current path of more debt.
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Well, if the stars aligned, so be it, the stars aligned. The USSR fell and we closed some bases and saved some money. Great!
The fact is, they not only balanced the budget but had a surplus, and credit should be given where credit is due, and they deserve the credit.
They could have taken the money and spent it, but they didn’t.
The surplus would have continued if not for the Bush tax cuts followed by two unpaid wars, one of which, Iraq, was based on lies.
I’m not blaming all of today’s debt on Bush, far from it, but he did set the proverbial ball headed back the wrong direction. What Clinton and the Republican congress did was a hard thing to do, that’s why it hasn’t been done since, and probably never will be again.
Bush Lost Battle Over the Surplus, But Won Tax Cut War | Pew Research Center
In the years following the passage of Bush’s initial tax cuts (a second round of cuts was approved in 2003), the country’s yearly balance sheet moved from surplus to deficit, with the annual budget shortfall eventually surpassing a trillion dollars.
Useless Nations
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Who in their right mind actually believes any of this?
Nobody said ‘draining the swamp’ was gonna be easy!!
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