GOP's budget revolt a hopeful sign of fiscal sanity -- but it's just...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Social Security and Medicare, together with veteran's benefits and other health programs, account for more than half of the budget.
57% : It is expressed in fierce opposition to "the swamp" -- in this case, business-as-usual logrolling in Congress -- and excitement about the prospects for Musk's DOGE, the new Department of Government Efficiency.
54% : He also had the single most powerful Republican politician on the planet and his extremely influential sidekick turning against his handiwork, namely, Donald Trump and Elon Musk respectively. Johnson did make a misstep with the so-called continuing resolution to keep the government funded past a looming deadline.
48% : If the budget is ever to be put on a more rational basis, there is no substitute for making a public case for a serious reform agenda that includes entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
34% : One of Trump's signature promises, of course, is not to touch Medicare and Social Security.

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