The truth is most of the GOP doesn’t want to really mess with the government golden goose. (It lays golden eggs for them. The taxpayers, we get bad eggs over and over.)
The Washington GOP will talk a good game about “fiscal responsibility” but ultimately, if cutting government, even the very modest cuts DOGE has given us the opportunity to realize, messes with senators or members, or even more importantly, their sponsors, “fiscal responsibility” is not going to happen. The Senate and the House, even after all the changes we’ve seen, is still much more Mitch McConnell than it is Rand Paul. There is a reason Rand Paul was never in the running for Senate leadership. He actually wants to cut government. Most Republicans? Not really.
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