All good ideas, but cutting those departments while leaving Soc Sec, Medicare and Medicaid intact is at best a thin moral victory.
RE: Social Security
I heard that Chile had a social security problem similar to the USA, but they fixed it in the 1990’s by privatizing it. I believe the Chicago School of economics ( under Milton Friedman’s tutelage had a hand in helping them ).
I wonder how their system is doing now.
If it’s working and their system is solvent inspite of the market ups and downs, why can’t we implement it here ?
GOP congresspeople are going to have a hard time cutting anything to do with medicare in the near future after they spent the last year saying that any medicare cuts, even to really unnessecary, expensive programs like medicare advantage, would kill old people.