In years past, even liberals would propose two or three dollars of spending cuts for every dollar they wanted to raise in taxes. At least they pretended to want to cut fat out of the budget.

Neither presidential candidate has offered much in terms of specific spending reductions — but Trump has endorsed Elon Musk’s idea for a federal efficiency commission.  The only reductions we have seen from Harris are due to gimmicks like Medicare price controls or revoking patents to lower costs.

We have a $7 trillion budget and a nearly $2 trillion deficit and these politicians can’t identify even ONE legitimate way to cut spending?  Scary.

We remind you that the entirety of the gaping federal deficit outlook is from overspending: