Let's Get Right to the Point: The RSC Budget is a Win for America
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a newly released episode of the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) Right to the Point podcast, RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chair Beth Van Duyne (TX-24) steps into the host seat and is joined by Rep. Aaron Bean (FL-04) to break down what is in the newly released RSC Budget for the 119th Congress.
The RSC Budget balances the books and returns to pre-pandemic spending levels without cutting Social Security or Medicare benefits, without raising the Social Security retirement age, and without eliminating agricultural programs that support America’s farmers—priorities families across the country have made clear matter most. It unleashes American energy production, ensures our border remains secure, strengthens our military, and protects the sanctity of unborn life.
RSC Budget and Spending Task Force Chair Van Duyne and Rep. Bean also dove right in on their efforts within the DOGE caucus and their partnership on the House Ways and Means Committee to establish guardrails within federal programs to end widespread fraud.
Listen to the episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Key Quotes from the Episode:
Task Force Chair Van Duyne: “The highlights, I think, of the budget, you know, one, we talked about the pre-pandemic spending levels, but two, and this was a big point of contention, was getting a balanced budget. I know there were some members that wanted to do it. I think one of the members was like, Can we do it in two years? The fact is that we had such out of control spending over the four years of the Biden administration that we were looking at potentially where can we cut to get that. And it wasn't going to happen, after lots of conversations between the members of our committee and in the White House and the Budget Committee, we ended up on 10 years.”
Rep. Aaron Bean: “DOGE is not dead. We're looking at so many different topics, but here's the thing about DOGE and the whole effort of waste, fraud and abuse, I liken it to a garden. If you're going to have government programs that are out there, you've got to have a weeding system. You've got to have a place to continue to engage and make sure that weeds don't overrun your garden. So that's why we need DOGE now and forever. It just should go hand in hand with how we go forward. We've got work to do. We've got to put greater guardrails on almost every program, because they are out there, the fraudsters, the scam artists, the what-nots, and we're just seeing how disgusting Minnesota is.”