OPINION
The End of Immortality in Washington
Stephen Moore | Jul 23, 2025
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Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled -- no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions were accomplished.
Even Ronald Reagan, who called for the cancelation of scores of programs, couldn't get Congress to end the eternal life-support system. After watching Congress fund even the most inefficient agencies, he famously groused that "the closest thing to immortality on this earth is a government program."
But to quote the back-in-vogue poet of the people, Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changin' in Washington.
Last week the seemingly impossible happened. Congress terminated at least a half-dozen major programs, many of which fiscal hawks have been trying to terminate for nearly half a century.
The Trump rescission bill made it through the House and Senate and mothballs federal funding for National Public Radio, public TV and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Sorry, Elmo: Billionaires don't qualify for taxpayer subsidies anymore. Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee pulled the plug on funding the corrupt World Bank -- the multibillion dollar piggy bank for globalists.
Nearly 100 parasitic "public interest groups" signed a joint letter howling in unison that this move to defund corrupt foreign aid giveaways would surely kill thousands -- even millions -- of people. Most of these groups are major recipients of the government largesse that is going away.
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