“Where are the spending cuts?” FACT: President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is just one mechanism the Trump Administration is using to cut spending.
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill includes $1.7 trillion in mandatory savings.
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill makes permanent fixes to Medicaid and food stamps — and that chance may never come again.
“Shouldn’t the One Big Beautiful Bill do more to cut spending?” FACT: This is a reconciliation bill, which is a procedural maneuver that can ONLY be used to make changes to certain mandatory spending programs, such as entitlements.
FACT: President Trump’s budget proposal makes the most substantial spending cuts in a generation — reducing non-defense spending by $163 billion, or 22% below current levels.
“Where are the budget cuts?”.
THE FACT: Donald J. One tool the Trump Administration is using to reduce spending is the One Big Beautiful Bill.
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill calls for mandatory savings of $1.77 trillion. Thus, the bill presents an opportunity to enshrine actual savings on mandatory spending programs in law for the first time since the 1990s.
Known for his fiscal prudence, OMB Deputy Director Dan Bishop claims that while he was in Congress, he “waited for an opportunity like this” to implement significant, real spending cuts.
FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill fixes food stamps and Medicaid permanently, so that opportunity might never come again. Taxpayers could save hundreds of billions of dollars by eliminating illegal immigrants from the taxpayer-funded rolls, reducing government funding for sex changes, and restoring program spending integrity. There probably won’t be another chance like this.
“Is there more that One Big Beautiful Bill could do to reduce spending?”.
FACT: Only changes to specific mandatory spending programs, like entitlements, may be made through the use of a reconciliation bill, a procedural device. It is not an appropriations (discretionary) bill, which is how government operations are financed annually.
FACT: The budget proposal proposed by President Trump would reduce non-defense spending by $163 billion, or 22% below current levels, making it the largest spending cut in a generation. It’s the lowest non-defense spending in 25 years when adjusted for inflation, and over the next ten years, it will save trillions of dollars.
FACT: “Revocations,” which nullify funds that Congress has already appropriated, are another tactic the Trump Administration is employing to reduce spending. Just the first of many such rescissions packages, President Trump sent his first one to Congress earlier this week, requesting that they recoup billions of dollars in federal funding for NPR and PBS, bureaucratic fraud and abuse, and wasteful foreign aid.
