Why Is Cutting One-Tenth of One Percent of the $6.75 Trillion Federal Budget So Hard?

The U.S. Senate passed a bill that cuts around $9 billion from funds for public broadcasting and foreign aid. That represents cutting 0.1% of the $6.75 trillion in federal spending from a budget with a $2 trillion deficit.

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And these were the easy cuts.

Republicans have been clamoring for decades to cut foreign aid and stop funding public broadcasting. Still, the vote was 51-48 with two GOP senators defecting. This shows the obstacles to cutting enough government spending to make a dent in the federal budget deficit, much less start the process of bringing down the national debt.

The primary obstacle to cutting federal spending is the American people. We’ve become drunk on federal dollars. While hundreds of billions of tax dollars go to

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