Finally, the budget accidentally sets spending levels for the year *3031* instead of 2031. Maybe it's a typo, but it's one they made 32 separate times!

The budget is supposedly balanced in 5 years and in surplus after that, but it still has the U.S. paying the same amount in interest payments: over $1.8 trillion (35% of the new budget) by the tenth year.

It's also full of typos.
The budget includes all the tax cuts from the recently passed reconciliation bill, but is silent on the spending. Are these cuts on top of reconciliation? Who knows.

So Paul can simultaneously say he's not cutting anything but also that he's cutting enough to balance the budget. It's a secret plan that could be anything.

But then it invents a new category of spending called "Efficiencies, Consolidations, and Other Savings" and cuts that by $22 trillion.

That's a huge amount of cuts! As an example, abolishing Social Security would come close. Abolishing Medicare or defense is only halfway there.

The budget is here: congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

The budget calls out all the categories of spending to keep the same.
Defense = undo the reconciliation bill and make no cuts
Health, education = make no cuts
Vets = make no cuts

And so on for all the other categories of spending

Full article has more examples across government:
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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