On Wednesday, those who frequent the social media platform X witnessed one of the most heartening spectacles in American history.
Led by X owner Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to co-direct the new waste- and bureaucracy-slashing “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), ordinary Americans conducted a massive pressure campaign that helped kill a ghastly federal spending bill, more than 1,500 pages in length, thereby preventing big-government Democrats and their Republican allies in Congress from enjoying the ill-gotten fruits of business as usual.
Amid that campaign, Ramaswamy posted on X a 75-word example of a proper, pork-free continuing resolution.
“Yes, it *is* possible to enact a simple 1-page Continuing Resolution, instead of 1,500+ page omnibus pork-fest. Here it is,” Ramaswamy tweeted.
In the example provided, he struck out the termination date from a prior appropriations bill and added “March 14, 2025.”
“This is what a clean CR looks like” he added in a follow-up tweet. “I still don’t love it because it permits the historical spending excesses to continue, but at bare minimum, we shouldn’t be stacking even more waste on top.”
This is what a clean CR looks like.