The federal government has become a lumbering giant.

With each passing year, it gets bigger and scarier.

In 1965, Washington was $761 billion big.

In 2016, it was $3.5 trillion.

Five times the size.

If the government spent only the money it collected in taxes,

that would be one thing.

But it always spends more, which is why we're $20 trillion

debt.

That's 13 zeros, count them, 13.

But the crazy spending isn't even the worst of it.

Washington is involved in every part of our lives.

Think about anything you do, from driving your car,

to buying your groceries, to mowing your lawn.

Whatever it is, your education, your job, your health,

the government has its hands on your shoulder,

if not on your throat.

As a congressman and senator for 14 years,

I know this only too well.

So how do we cut this giant down to size?

Is it even possible?

Yes.

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