REP MICHAEL CLOUD: It’s Time To Get Serious About Ending Washington’s Wasteful Spending

For decades, Americans have watched their hard-earned tax dollars disappear into the bureaucratic swamp of Washington, D.C. With a national debt topping $36 trillion and interest payments threatening to crowd out essential government functions, it’s long past time to get serious about reining in waste, fraud, and abuse.

The White House’s first proposed rescissions package is a long-overdue step toward restoring fiscal sanity to a federal government that’s lost sight of accountability.

A rescission is not a cut to essential services. It’s a targeted, responsible approach to start rightsizing a bloated federal bureaucracy. This package identifies nearly $10 billion in unspent, unobligated funds—money that has been sitting there with little real benefit to the American people. (RELATED: REP MICHAEL CLOUD: Republicans Need To Play The Long Game In Budget Battle With Democrats)

This is a start. One we’ve needed for years. It will become clear, after a simple look at the programs being rescinded, that the vast majority of Americans wouldn’t open up their wallets to fund these causes. $2.1 million for so-called climate “resilience” in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and East Africa. $5 million for “green transportation and logistics” in Eurasia. Another $5.1 million for “resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans gender, intersex, and queer global movements.” And $135 million in contributions to the World Health Organization (WHO).

If Congress can’t find the political will to cut waste with all that DOGE has recently uncovered, how will we ever hope to tackle the real drivers of our long-term debt?