They're ignoring the fact that Federal spending has gone up 25% in the past two years. The best the Republicans can muster is a 2% cut? I call BS. 25% right off the top should be easy. There is so much overlap in gubmint programs, waste, fraud, abuse, etc., if anything there are so many places to cut and cut deep that the task is overwhelming. The Republicans give me the impression that they aren't serious about anything. Either they don't understand the dire circumstances we are in or they want the USA to fail. I'm starting to think more and more with every passing day it's the latter.....
Cutting waste will save millions. Maybe -- maybe! -- billions.
We need to cut entire Depts. -- Education, EPA, Homeland security, USDA, just defund them. That's how you save hundreds of billions. And entitlements. They need to be radically re-configured, and millions of Americans have to lose stuff that they think they deserve to have.
Government bureaucrats will get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse all by themselves when really serious budget cuts are forced upon them. We need to make two trillion dollars in cuts, at least. Looking for fraud won't get us there, and if we get people focused on looking for fraud they won't focus on what we need to do.
Just my two cents.