We’re impressed with the new House Budget Committee chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), who looks like he’s ready to take a surgical knife to the budget. (We’d prefer a chainsaw, but this is a start.)

He will release the GOP budget plan in April after the White House releases its FY2024 proposal on March 9 – and that budget will be filled with price controls, tax increases on the rich, more green energy subsidies, but not a dime of real domestic spending cuts out of our obese $6.5 trillion budget.

Arrington is pushing some very smart budget reforms that we’ve been pushing on these pages (he must be a Hotline reader):