If House Speaker Mike Johnson caves to the Democrats, as he always does, and is threatening to do now, and passes a stopgap budget without the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts, Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attempts to reform the federal government and slash waste significantly this year will become little more than exercises in futility — at least for now.
It has been thrilling over the last few weeks to receive constant updates from the Musk-led DOGE and other Trump-appointed agency heads on major cuts to wasteful, unaffordable, and woke government spending. But if the Republican-majority House and Speaker Johnson let themselves be bullied by the Democrats, which Republicans so often do and which Johnson is already indicating will happen, then DOGE cuts will not make it into the stopgap budget or any budget this year.
Obviously, we don’t know how the current budget battle will turn out, but if Johnson is already warning of potential failure, that’s not a promising sign. Maybe it’s a good time to write your representative and make your voice heard on this matter.
[The Hill, Feb. 26: Johnson] said on Wednesday that a stopgap to avert a government shutdown next month is “becoming inevitable” and that it will probably be as “clean” [i.e., without cuts] as possible, as both sides have struggled for weeks to strike a full-year funding deal… Johnson’s comments come as Democrats have pressed for assurances that a bipartisan funding deal that emerges from talks won’t be undercut by Trump amid his Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) sweeping operation to reshape the federal government.
It is stunning how Democrats NEVER EVER compromise on what they want, and thus have been winning the culture wars and spiking government spending for decades now. At last the GOP under Donald Trump is scoring major victories, winning new Republican voters and inducing citizens to reject Democrat lies. Trump’s approval rating soon after taking office was over 50%, an estimated 76% of Americans support eliminating government waste, 67% understand the U.S. debt is unsustainable, and about 71% of Americans support DOGE’s work. Most voters usually support a government shutdown over continued waste, and the above numbers indicate that is likely true now, too.
So why can’t Republicans actually do what their constituents want for once? Why can’t they ever insist on no compromise with the losing side (the Democrats), knowing the American people and the Trump administration are behind them? Why does Mike Johnson always go in warning he’s expecting to lose, and proceed to backstab us with horrific budget/CR deals? We literally cannot afford the current federal government spending, and we were promised tax cuts under Trump, which ultimately will only work if there is significant government spending cuts. Donald Trump and all his allies, including Johnson, love to say, “Promises made, promises kept.” This is a big promise that needs to be kept.
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Democrats have been successful at transforming government because they never take “no” for an answer. Now that that finally didn’t work for them in the 2024 election, maybe Republicans can grow a spine. After all, we’re more than $36.5 trillion in debt — we simply can’t afford to keep passing disastrous “stopgap” bills. Government shutdowns affect very few people and are much preferable to any more awful spending bills.
