Against ALL the media screaming and crying?
The Republican led US Congress , even with GOP Majorities, has NOT acceded to their parties leader and his crew a hacksaw to the American Government ….
Donald HAS NOT done much different than the guys as President before him….
Even with the Musk DOGE fiasco, which has agencies and departments hiring BACK people and even offering ‘signing bonuses for some new hires…
The ‘System‘ set up the guys 250 years ago has changed…
But its basic remain with it counter balances…
This time ?…..With a Midterm election. lurking less than 9 months away….
Shortly after returning to office, President Trump embarked on an aggressive campaign to pare back the core functions of the federal government, unveiling a budget that proposed some of the steepest spending reductions in U.S. history.
Nearly one year later, Congress has rejected much of that vision.
In a little-noticed development, lawmakers have systematically brushed off many of Mr. Trump’s most severe cuts for this fiscal year, leaving intact a vast set of federal education, health, housing and research programs that the White House had tried to slash or eliminate.
For Mr. Trump, the result is a set of annual government expenses that do not appear radically different on paper compared with what he inherited in January 2025. Overall, Congress is on track to approve more than $1.6 trillion in discretionary spending for 2026, amounting to little change from the previous fiscal year, according to a preliminary analysis of federal budget records by the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research organization….
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Mr. Trump still prevailed in other ways, most notably in his efforts to scale back the size and reach of government by ousting thousands of federal workers. Still, the outcome on Capitol Hill underscores the complex and fraught politics of austerity: Where the president sees evidence of spending that is woke, weaponized or wasteful, his critics in both parties see money that is essential to their communities and the broader economy.
At times, the difficult dynamic has put the White House at odds with some congressional Republicans, many of whom are up for re-election this November. That has only reinforced Mr. Trump’s desire to circumvent lawmakers altogether, using a series of contested and potentially illegal maneuvers to revoke billions in congressionally approved spending that the president disfavors.
Kent Smetters, the faculty director for the Penn Wharton Budget Model, said that, for now, Congress had “basically rejected” everything that Mr. Trump had sought….
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Still, Mr. Smetters added that the result this year illustrated a well-worn truth that presidential budgets are “aspirational in nature,” and that in the fight to trim spending, there are always “strong vested interests” for keeping federal funds intact…
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Lawmakers similarly rejected steep cuts proposed by Mr. Trump for agencies including the Departments of Commerce, Labor and Health and Human Services, which saw only slight changes to their overall, annual budgets, the records show. And they jettisoned some of Mr. Trump’s most significant attempts to whittle down antipoverty programs, particularly federal housing assistance….
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“Members are extremely nervous about re-election, and there is not the political environment to take on major spending cuts…
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Of course ANOTHER problem for Trump’s effort’s was that Federal Judges did NOT go along with Trump trying to do things that hew did NOT have the power to do….
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