So he passes a budget through the House that defunds a bunch of agencies, dramatically cuts spending, and gets rid of foreign aid and Ukraine funding (assuming he can get the votes in the House to do that, which is doubtful). It goes to the Senate where Democrats kill it and pass their own budget that keeps spending. What does Massie and/or Jordan do next?
The point is that passing these budgets that make fundamental changes sounds great, but a lot of people seem to think we can pass budgets by the power of our will. We need votes to do it. We need a president who will sign it. We have neither, and it's pointless to pretend we do.
There's also a fundamental conflict on the substance. We got rid of the Paul Ryans of the conference because we thought they were too cuckish and wimpy. However, we didn't replace them with budget hardliners. We replaced them with MAGA-types. Well, I've seen no evidence that MAGA supports cutting any big ticket items. They supported more military spending and oppose all cuts and reforms to entitlements. So though there has been plenty of tough talk, when we're talking about actual big ticket budget items that make a real difference, we've largely run on big spending. The talk had nothing behind it.
