Due to the way the GOP has chosen to try and pass President Donald J Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a key component of DNC-CCP power, USAID, will be untouched by the budget-cutter’s knife. The bill was originally promised to get close to putting into law Trump’s agenda that, so far, has largely been driven through edict (and hampered by questionable judicial injunctions).
USAID is discretionary, not “mandatory” spending, which is a problem since reconciliation bills (which is how they chose to pass the bill) can only alter mandatory spending, not discretionary spending. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have crystalized the conservative opposition to this news in a post on X.
DeSantis wrote, “(Elon Musk) took massive incoming — including attacks on his companies as well as personal smears — to lead the effort on DOGE. He became public enemy #1 of legacy media around the world. To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them.”
‘Demoralizing,’ ‘Represents Betrayal of the Voters’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Congressional Republicans on Tuesday over their lack of action on cutting the government waste and abuse identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Back in March, Congress passed the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, which maintained funding for USAID at the FY 2024 level, effectively extending existing funding for the purportedly “rogue agency” through September 30, 2025.
The “Big Beautiful Bill,” which narrowly passed in the House of Representatives last week, reportedly includes $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, including the largest-ever welfare reform.
But because it is a reconciliation bill, Senate rules limit the cuts to “mandatory” spending only, such as Medicaid and Food Stamps, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller explained on X. The DOGE cuts are overwhelmingly discretionary, not mandatory, so they are not addressed in the Big Beautiful Bill.
Many conservatives have expressed disappointment that Republicans have failed to codify any meaningful cuts in wasteful discretionary spending, as identified by DOGE, in separate bills. Meanwhile, the director of the National Economic Council promised last week that “way more spending cuts” are coming later this year.
