If House Republicans were serious about making spending cuts at least practical, if not immediately achievable, it’s easily done.

 If House Republicans were serious about making spending cuts at least practical, if not immediately achievable, it's easily done.

• There's no reason for the government to hold itself to a timeline on when the budget should be balanced
• The only way to get started on reducing spending is to start reducing spending
• If you don't touch Social Security and Medicare, you'll have to make up for it by drastically cutting elsewhere - vacations, entertainment, beauty grooming, new clothing, etc.

Trim it back

• Trust that any area proposed for a budget reduction will be greeted by all of Washington with some variation of, "But that's only [insert marginal percentage] of the federal budget!"
• Excuses are the surest sign that something isn't necessary
• And if anything is as critical as government bureaucrats say it is, they'll figure out how to make it work with less

https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/25/reduce-federal-spending-by-cutting-back-anywhere-and-everywhere-a-guide-for-bladder-shy-financially-illiterate-republicans/