“It’s amazing how you can spin implementing waste and fraud reduction as “cuts”. That’s like saying “I need to make my car payment, so I’m going to stop going out to eat 3x week” and call it “a cut to my food budget”. The budget for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is actually more year over ye…”
“Quid pro quo or otherwise known as negotiating, is done all the time. Let’s assume Trump’s motivation was initially political (which we can’t know). The aid was released without Ukraine knowing about it being withheld. It is entirely reasonable and possible that Trump mis-stepped, his team corrected…”
“It’s a documented fact that multiple programs duplicate each other and have no accountability to show they’re even effective. It’s also a fact that once a program gets started it’s near impossible to end. Yet those supporters of big government sow fear of ever trying to rein in a bloated bureaucracy…”