From $100,000 for a girls’ fun run in Gaza to $700,000 to push edible insects, taxpayers are getting ripped off.
Hell hath no fury like big-government trough feeders facing budget cuts. Oh, how the piggies have pounced on President Donald Trump’s attempts to rein in out-of-control spending in a federal government with a morbidly obese deficit.
“Most people voted for cheaper eggs. They did not vote for this chaos,” Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said Wednesday at a grandstanding session with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer after the Trump administration rescinded a memo on freezing federal loans and grants.
News flash for you, Martin: Cheaper goods and services — including eggs — won’t happen without a change in direction from the massive, unconscionable spending by Trump’s predecessor, congressional Democrats, and too many uniparty Republicans. Americans voted for sanity in their federal government, and that includes a return to fiscal restraint which ultimately will stop runaway inflation and, God willing, take a big bite out of the crushing $36.4 trillion debt.
“Everyone knows this spending blowout happened over the last five years and some of that money is for causes that are not worthy of our tax dollars,” Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., told The Federalist in a phone interview Wednesday from his northern Wisconsin district. “We all know there’s tremendous waste, fraud and abuse in this government.” […]
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