Bluey and Bannon Say Conservatives Need to Pressure Congress Into Balancing the Budget

President of The Daily Signal Rob Bluey called on Republicans in Congress to massively reduce the national deficit, telling host Steve Bannon during a Tuesday appearance on “War Room,” “Think about how much more progress we can make and the economic juice we can give this White House if we were able to also reduce government spending.

“Just like you and I are expected to balance our budget on a monthly basis, we should expect the same of our congressional representatives,” Bluey stated. 

“Republicans have for years, if not decades, promised that they were going to do this,” Bluey said of deep cuts to government spending.

Bluey was on War Room to discuss an exclusive story published by The Daily Signal that suggested Republicans in Congress could be getting serious about bringing down government spending.

Previously, The Daily Signal reported that the Republican Study Committee had come out with a comprehensive plan to balance the budget within the next 10 years.

The 189 member committee’s report ran more than 100 pages, calling for ending wasteful spending and bringing costs down for the American family.

“What the Republican Study Committee is attempting to do here is to go through department by department and eliminate what areas that they think are duplicative wasteful, try to find efficiencies throughout the government,” Bluey told Bannon.

“The spending that we saw during the Biden years contributed to the inflation crisis that the American people faced,” Bluey later said.

While the Trump administration has managed to bring Biden-era inflation down, Bannon later asserted that the inflationary pressures could reemerge thanks to reckless government spending during the Biden administration.

“We have a big fight in front of us, Rob, but we’ll partner with you, because right now, the reason the legislators don’t take it seriously is that it’s still financeable,” Bannon said of the nation’s debts.

“I think you look at the 10-year budget, it’s $2.5 trillion annually just for the interest payments—it’s over $2 trillion,” Bannon continued.

“So when this hits, it’s going to hit like a punch from Sonny Liston right up in your face, and you’re not going to be able to recover from it,” Bannon added.

“It is going to be a serious challenge that we will have to confront,” Bluey replied. “And who is it going to impact most? Probably those young people who are entering the workforce and are staring at years to try to pay down this huge debt.”

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