So it is perhaps not surprising that Mr Brechen couched his message on spending cuts at least partly in the language of victim rights., It’s a strategy adopted by Republicans at the highest levels to defend their position in the coming fiscal battle. And former President Donald J. It’s part of a broader shift in the party led by Trump, who avoided entitlement reform — one of the key tenets of fiscal conservatism — but leaned heavily into the cultural grievances of the Republican base.
With Mr. McCarthy vowing not to touch Social Security or Medicare as part of a campaign to reduce the federal budget, and tax hikes also off the table, Republicans turned their attention to cutting spending, including foreign aid. is, they argue, fueling an unruly bureaucracy furthering a liberal ideology.
Russ Watt, president of the arch-conservative Center for Renewing America and a former budget director under the Trump administration, has put forward a budget plan that he calls “the easiest spending to cut, both practically and ethically.” Funding a bureaucracy designed against the people.” His budget would eliminate the Office for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the Pentagon, zero foreign aid to LGBTQ activist communities in oppressive countries, and cut $3.4 billion to migration and refugee aid.
“That’s what I want to argue,” Mr. Watt said in an interview.
It’s the kind of debate that could interest voters attending events in Brechen’s district, most of them focused more on complaints about the Biden administration than on spending.
During the four events, only a few constituents raised their hands to engage on the issue of the national debt. One, who described himself as the lone Democrat in the room, asked Mr Brechen whether he would support taxing the country’s richest citizens – “billionaires, trillionaires,” he said – to boost Social Security and Medicare. To help give.
Mr. Brechen responded that he is in favor of a flat tax and believes that it would be “fair” to raise the Social Security eligibility age to take into account rising life expectancies.
Another, a young man, urged other attendees to support Mr. Bretchen in the debt volatility game, even though it has caused the value of his retirement savings plans to drop and “make all your security interests glow red.” “
