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Libertarian: Make the DOGE Cuts Permanent

“To make the DOGE spending cuts stick,” Sen. Rand Paul is encouraging “Vice President J.D. Vance to have the Trump administration draw up a rescission package” for Congress to pass, and so formally withdraw “spending Congress had previously authorized,” reports Reason’s Eric Boehm. As Paul points out: “If we want to have real savings,” then the Trump administration “is going to have to send this back to Congress, and Congress is going to have to approve of spending less money.” Boehm explains: “A rescission bill can pass the Senate with a simple majority, and Paul believes there would be enough support.” Plus, “a vote on a rescission bill would solve some of the legal and procedural questions about DOGE’s spending cuts.”

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