House conservatives are continuing their push for domestic spending cuts of $120 billion as part of the appropriations bill that Congress must pass before Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus has proposed reverting to domestic spending levels of $1.47 trillion, which would come in at about $120 billion less than the debt ceiling agreement that President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy previously reached.
The budget watchdog group, OpenTheBooks.com says it has identified a series of areas the House GOP could find taxpayer savings.
The U.S. government has estimated that there has been about $3 trillion of improper payments made across a host of federal programs since 2004. In 2022, the total was $247 billion. OpenTheBooks.com estimates that the 2022 total to be about $20.5 billion per month or more than $675 million each day.”If the government could simply revert back to pre-COVID levels of mistaken […]
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