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Posted on: February 4, 2025 at 10:25:40 CT
DC Jayhawk KU
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the Secretaries will spend every dollar so that their budget isn't slashed next year. If you are authorized to spend $10, you spend $7, then next year, your budget is $7. That's not a token of success in government; it usually viewed as symbolic failure.
The executive slashing spending doesn't mean it won't be spent -- it will be *reallocated*. All of the money allocated WILL BE SPENT . It's a gross system, but it's how it works. USAID money will be reallocated, no matter what people think.
This is a long way of saying that Congress has to make the budget cuts. The executive branch slashing budgets sounds great, but all it does is rearrange the deck chairs. So, when *congress* makes cuts, we'll see real change, in my limited opinion.
As a useless anecdote: I have known some very fiscally conservative people who worked in government, and without fail they not only 1) commented how they spent all their budget or 2) flexed that they successfully argued for a budget increase for the next FY, or 3) commented how they were able to buy XYZ with 'year end funding' which is a codephrase for money that was reallocated from some other budget. There is something very weird that happens when people get into government that makes them spend with abandon and not actually adhere to principle.
I see no reason that Trump's administration will be any different.
The executive slashing spending doesn't mean it won't be spent -- it will be *reallocated*. All of the money allocated WILL BE SPENT . It's a gross system, but it's how it works. USAID money will be reallocated, no matter what people think.
This is a long way of saying that Congress has to make the budget cuts. The executive branch slashing budgets sounds great, but all it does is rearrange the deck chairs. So, when *congress* makes cuts, we'll see real change, in my limited opinion.
As a useless anecdote: I have known some very fiscally conservative people who worked in government, and without fail they not only 1) commented how they spent all their budget or 2) flexed that they successfully argued for a budget increase for the next FY, or 3) commented how they were able to buy XYZ with 'year end funding' which is a codephrase for money that was reallocated from some other budget. There is something very weird that happens when people get into government that makes them spend with abandon and not actually adhere to principle.
I see no reason that Trump's administration will be any different.
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