Cutting Corners

The Republicans ened to do their jobs:

What the GOP has shown time and again is a complete disinterest in disrupting the status quo spending in Washington. Even while inflation was wreaking havoc on American households during the Biden administration, many congressional Republicans were perfectly willing to add to the problem by supporting major spending bills that further increased the country’s growing national debt. With trifecta control of the federal government and Trump and DOGE enjoying net-positive approval from the American public, there is no better opportunity for Republicans to shrink the bureaucracy and slash wasteful spending. Whether it’s eliminating USAID and the Education Department or repealing Biden’s wrongly named “Inflation Reduction Act,” the possibilities for substantial cuts are too numerous to be ignored.

Unfortunately the GOP seems to be doing that...