The Trump administration has made slashing government spending one of its top goals, and is already in the process of identifying and eliminating waste and fraud through it's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But the White House only has access to a fraction of federal spending. Ultimately, it's Congress that controls what and how much money is spent in Washington, D.C. And at least some members want to do something about it.
The latest budget resolution approved by the House aims to cut $2 trillion over ten years, or $200 billion per year. But that is just a modest start to members like Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-GA), who tells Breitbart News Daily it's time for real spending reform. "I would honestly love to see a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution," he says. "Many states have it, my home state of Georgia has it. Legislation would never be allowed to come to the House floor if it didn't have an offset and wasn't fully paid for...that's the way our state government in Georgia works, and that's the way the federal government should work."
A balanced federal budget is not impossible, as it most recently happened in the 1990s under House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton. But actually getting a balanced budget amendment is a longshot, since it would take two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states to approve.
If a balanced budget amendment isn't in the offing, Clyde believes tackling the waste in entitlement programs is a good place to start. "Look what DOGE has already found, where you have two-billion dollars a week going to people without social security numbers," he tells Breitbart. "How is that even allowed to happen?"
"But yet, we have people that seem to have blinders on that just keep spending and spending, and approving spending...and that has to stop."
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