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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty. And yet he's Armstrong and Getty.

But the fact that it is so close, and they have to probably call in J.D. Vance again, the House only getting through with one vote, doesn't it suggest that Washington really stinks at cutting funding?

It absolutely does.

And look, this is, as Senator Thune said, $9 billion, $1-10th of 1% of the federal budget.

This is a rounding error when it comes to Washington, and they're struggling to do it.

I mean, how are they going to fix Social Security? How are they going to fix Medicare? How are they going to do the big things? So your question of them was absolutely right. It's like, if this is so hard, then how are they going to do anything? The big cuts. And what are they going to do when the next rescission bill comes? Yeah, I saw a part of that interview, and it's the usual. It blamed it on the Democrats to start with, and then LeBret Beard jumped in.

Yeah, but the Republicans control everything, and they barely could get it through.

Right.

Nobody wants to call out their own party.

It's an excellent point.

Yeah, yep.

The headlines, the Senate barely, barely, barely passed a bill to cancel less than one-tenth and one percent of

federal's funding, mostly foreign aid programs and public media. Public media is getting a lot of

attention because it's, you know, a lot of people are into it. It's not going to go away, by the way.

It just won't be as well-funded. They'll have to come up with different revenue streams.

That's fine. So of the rest of us. But a lot of it's cutting foreign aid, excuse me. And I'm in favor of good foreign aid, just not bad foreign aid. So that's fine. And you've got to cut something. But this is funny. This was tangential to that reporting on that. It may be the most ironic thing I've ever read in my life, and I like irony.

Happens to be in New York Times.

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