“Where are the spending cuts?”
- FACT: President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is just one mechanism the Trump Administration is using to cut spending.
- FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill includes $1.7 trillion in mandatory savings. This means that for the first time since the 1990s, the bill offers a chance to cement real savings on mandatory spending programs into law.
- OMB Deputy Director Dan Bishop — known for his fiscal responsibility — says he “waited for an opportunity like this” when he was in Congress to make real, substantial spending cuts.
- FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill makes permanent fixes to Medicaid and food stamps — and that chance may never come again. This is an opportunity to kick illegal immigrants off the taxpayer-funded rolls, cut government funding for sex changes, and restore integrity in program spending — saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. This opportunity will likely not come again.
“Shouldn’t the One Big Beautiful Bill do more to cut spending?”
- FACT: This is a reconciliation bill, which is a procedural maneuver that can ONLY be used to make changes to certain mandatory spending programs, such as entitlements. It is NOT an appropriations (discretionary) bill, which is how government operations are funded on an annual basis.
- FACT: President Trump’s budget proposal makes the most substantial spending cuts in a generation — reducing non-defense spending by $163 billion, or 22% below current levels. Adjusted for inflation, it’s the lowest non-defense spending in 25 years and will generate trillions of dollars in savings over the next decade.
- FACT: Another tool the Trump Administration is using to cut spending is known as a “rescission,” which cancels funding that has already been appropriated by Congress. Earlier this week, President Trump sent his first rescissions package to Congress, asking them to claw back billions of dollars in wasteful foreign aid, bureaucratic fraud and abuse, and federal funding for NPR and PBS — and it’s just the first of many such rescissions packages.