Right and Left Come Together to Eliminate Wasteful Spending

$600 bllion in budget cuts proposed by National Taxpayer's Union and U.S. Public Interest Research Group

From CNSNews.com
By Chris Johnson

With the federal deficit at $1.3 trillion and conservative members of Congress talking about ways to trim government spending, a newly released report by the National Taxpayer Union (NTU) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) proposes $600 billion in federal budget cuts over the next 5 years.

In a "strange bedfellows" confab, the right-leaning NTU and left-leaning US PIRG have highlighted 31 specific examples of wasteful government spending that they say can be eliminated.

In the report, Toward Common Ground: Bridging the Political Divide to Reduce Spending, the 31 examples fall into the categories of ending wasteful subsidies, improving contract and asset acquisition, improving program execution and government operations, ending wasteful or outdated military programs and systems, and aligning military spending with current needs.

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