Jessica Riedl:
Well, the governing philosophy is ultimately what they call a war on woke.
The word woke appears 12 times. DEI appears 31 times. Gender appears 14 times. Generally, there’s a lot of spending cuts that are based on a very exaggerated definition of woke. The largest cuts that I have seen are the NIH, housing, transportation, United Nations, and international spending.
But, overall, the vision the president is putting out is $163 billion in savings from traditional domestic programs, of which the entire $163 billion would be reprogrammed into increases for defense and Border Patrol. So there’s not really any cuts here. It’s just a movement from domestic programs to border and defense spending.
In fact, it could actually increase deficits, because the budget also reduces funding for IRS enforcement, which will hit the revenue side.
