The Trump administration has a difficult task ahead of them. The country is over $36 trillion in debt. The interest on the debt is now up to about 13% of the budget. If government spending is not cut, that will increase by about half a percent per year. Eventually, it will take up so much of the budget, that government won’t be able to keep its promises for social programs.

First, for those who would rather watch than read, check out this clip of Matt Walsh:

If you cannot watch, then here’s an editorial by famous law professor Jonathan Turley that was published in the far-left The Hill:

In one of the most cringeworthy appearances in Congress, Katherine Maher imploded in a House hearing on the public funding of the liberal radio outlet.

By the end of her series of contradictions and admissions, Maher had made the definitive case for ending public funding for NPR and state-subsidized media.

And here are the details:

She was the personification of advocacy journalism, even declaring that the First Amendment is the “number one challenge” that makes it “tricky” to censor or “modify” content as she would like.

Maher has supported “deplatforming” anyone she deems to be “facsists” and even suggested that she might support “punching Nazis.” She also declared that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”

A former NPR editor published an article about bias at NPR: “NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.”

It’s amazing how secular leftists change their views when they are about to lose access to taxpayer handouts:

When asked about her past public statements that Trump is a “deranged, racist sociopath,” she said that she would not post such views today. She similarly brushed off her statements that America is “addicted to White supremacy” and denounced the use of the words “boy and girl” as “erasing language” for non-binary people.

When asked about her past assertion that the U.S. was founded on “black plunder and white democracy,” Maher said she no longer believed what she had said. She also wrote that “America is addicted to white supremacy”

When asked about her support for the book “The Case for Reparations,” Maher denied any memory of ever having read the book. She was then read back her own public statements about how she took a day to read the book in a virtue-signaling post.

She then denied calling for reparations, but was read back her own declaration: “Yes, the North, yes all of us, yes America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day.”

Suddenly, the thought of losing access to taxpayer money made Katherine Maher forget everything that her company – NPR – had ever done or said:

The one moment of clarity came when Maher was asked about NPR’s refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. When first disclosed, with evidence of millions in alleged influence-peddling by the Biden family, NPR’s then-managing editor Terence Samuels made a strident and even mocking statement: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

Now Maher wants Congress to know that “NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner.”

All it took was the threat of a complete cutoff of federal funding.

It must be so confusing for her to be confronted with her own words and her own choices. I can imagine that she must be thinking something similar to Hillary Clinton, when she was confronted with evidence of her crimes: “what difference at this point does it make?” No apology. No taking responsibility. No accepting accountability. Just lie, evade, dodge, deflect, shift blame, project.

Listen. All of this government spending is going to have to be paid by your children, and your children’s children. For Democrats – the party of slavery – this is not a problem. Democrats LOVE spending money now, and making other people pay for it later. Democrats LOVE the idea of forcing others to pay their bills.  They believe in unlimited money, unlimited youth, unlimited beauty. They don’t understand scarcity. They just want to have a good time now.

Now that the grown-ups are back in charge, we need to cut the spending while we still can. Let these welfare queens fend for themselves. Let them face the consequences of their actions.