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Heavenly Father, help our legislators identify and remove wasteful spending, fraudulent, and abusive practices in our national budget.
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Their proposed spending cuts last year didn’t make much headway but the Trump administration remains unbowed, delivering details Monday of the new budget that calls for even deeper cuts to what they characterized as government fat.

From “payment integrity” proposals, aimed at sweating more than $160 billion out of government, to $68 billion the administration thinks it can save by more closely policing who claims popular tax credits, the White House is going big on waste, fraud and abuse this year.

All told, the Office of Management and Budget says it’s eyeing $2.7 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years in an aggressive bid to point out inefficient programs to a Capitol Hill that sometimes seems to be running on autopilot when it comes to spending.

After failing to win many cuts from its first two budgets, the White House has been defensive about its chances this time.

“Congress has been ignoring the president’s spending reductions for the last two years,” said Russell Vought, the acting White House budget director. “The president has continually called for fiscal restraint and will persist in his efforts to end the wasteful spending.”… (Read more at  The Washington Times)

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Alan K. Veasey
March 20, 2019

Waste and other unsound spending should be reduced. Lord, inspire
the Administration and its officers with boldness to achieve wisdom
in public expenditure. All these resources are yours and should glorify you. Unwise expenditures and unsound ones to not glorify
The Holy One. Resources not used for His glory will be used for death and destruction. Choose life as it says in Deuteronomy.

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