Cut 500 billion and you'll have a roughly balanced budget. Cut one trillion and you can start paying down the debt. Post cuts below and make sure to do the math:
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There are three million non military federal employees. We don't need half of them. And the federal pension can go away. Federal workers should be on a 401k like plan just like everyone else.
Lets see.....Oh, there should be no....Dept of education. Education is a local matter. The states should be taking care of this. End all federal funding for public education,. Fire all federal bureaucrats and their staff.
Dept of housing and urban development.....More pork...Get rid of it. The federal government has no business being in the building maintenance business.
Federal grants for the arts? Please. If the public does not find certain so called art stimulating enough to spend their money to see/watch it, then I guess its not worth it.
Federal funding for mass transit....Dump it...If a city's mass transit cannot be made to operate efficiently and within a budget, the taxpayers should not be subsidizing it.
Small city airports. Again, the federal govt sees a need to funnel money into these small airports that have maybe 5 or 10 scheduled commercial flights per day....all because some US senator or house member needs a way to get to and from Washington....Too bad...Move closer to a larger city.
Cut all non defense related military spending. Sell off all non defense real estate holdings such as golf courses and other non essential to defense areas.
If it doesn't supply materiel, cut it.
Cut all salaries to elected members of congress and their staff members by one third. If a member of congress cannot live on $140k per year, tough. And their highest paid staffers making over $50k per year? Find a room mate if you cannot afford your own apartment.
DC is expensive because of the well above market rate wages.