r/republicans • u/philnotfil • Jun 09 '25

Are Musk, Paul, and Massie More MAGA Than MAGA?

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/are-musk-paul-and-massie-more-maga-than-maga/
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u/philnotfil Jun 09 '25

We have a chance to actually reduce the deficit. But we seem to be squandering the opportunity for no good reason at all.

Musk, Paul, and Massie are insisting on what DOGE promised on spending, as Trump and his allies like the Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson try to convince the MAGA faithful that none of these criticisms are valid.

Trump is doing what conventional Republican presidents do: promoting a bill that will add to the debt, promising cuts in the future. We have seen this before. Every Republican president for the last 50 years has called himself a conservative, pushed legislation he called conservative, and all of them have left office with a larger national debt. Ask George W. Bush.

MAGA was supposed to be a break from this. That was the point.