Cut the Fat, Fund the Future: Real Fiscal Responsibility Starts Now

Cutting waste and abuse should be a common sense issue.

Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem.

It has a waste problem.

While families in District 30 stretch every dollar, the federal government throws billions out the window—on overpriced contracts, foreign aid scams, redundant programs, and “studies” nobody asked for.

We send money to study shrimp on treadmills… but bridges collapse.

We fund gender programs in Pakistan… but veterans sleep on our streets.

We subsidize green tech billionaires… while small businesses can’t get a loan.

It’s time for a new standard: If it doesn’t help the American people, it doesn’t get funded.

Here’s what I’ll fight for in Congress:

1. Zero-Based Budgeting

No more “baseline increases” just because an agency wants more.

Every agency should start at zero and justify every dollar they request.

If you can’t prove results, you don’t get re-funded.

2. Audit the Bureaucracy

Most Americans couldn’t name 80% of the federal departments we’re paying for.

Let’s change that.

I’ll push to:

• Audit every federal agency, every five years, with findings made public.

• Slash or consolidate duplicate programs—especially across education, housing, and health departments.

• Eliminate “use-it-or-lose-it” end-of-year spending rules, which cause agencies to blow their budgets on nonsense to avoid budget cuts.

3. Invest in the People, Not the Paperwork

The best spending? It’s not in D.C.—it’s in our communities.

I’ll redirect wasted funds into:

• Hard infrastructure: Roads, water systems, power grids, public transportation.

• Soft infrastructure: Trade schools, small business capital, family-centered healthcare.

• Human capital: Work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and mentorship for under-resourced Americans.

Let’s stop feeding the machine and start feeding the future.

4. Ban Ear-Mark Abuse and Lobbyist Write-Offs

Special interest groups write the bills. Congress rubber-stamps them.

And the people get stuck with the tab.

I’ll propose:

• Mandatory 72-hour public review of all bills over 50 pages.

• Ban on last-minute earmarks or backroom amendments.

• Public listing of all lobbyist donations by bill, so voters know who’s really behind the spending.

A government that wastes its people’s money is a government that no longer respects its people.

That ends when I get to Washington.

If you’re ready to cut the fat and fund the future—follow @SholdonDaniels on X and help me put fiscal responsibility back on the table.