Opinion | Tony Wied might be as close to fiscally conservative as MAGA gets

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Former Rep. Paul Ryan rose to the House speakership with plans to rein in spending on entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
55% : Gallagher seemed like the next iteration of young conservatism until the emergence of Trump seemingly made fiscal principle untenable.
53% : For instance, Trump, knowing the benefit of having Musk on his side, has created an amorphous Department of Government Efficiency (the acronym for which coincidentally syncs up with Musk's cryptocurrency coin) to cut trillions from the federal budget.
43% : Nevertheless, they have promised to cut at least $2 trillion annually -- over one-third of total noninterest spending -- even though, as the Manhattan Institute's Brian Reidl has pointed out, 75% of the federal budget funds Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense, veterans and interest, with the final 25% supporting infrastructure, justice, border security, health research, national parks, unemployment benefits, disaster aid and disability benefits.
31% : On Dec. 20, Wied issued a statement boasting of his distaste for government spending.
28% : But like Wied's promise to attack "Washington's reckless spending spree," the DOGE plan will almost certainly detonate when Trump weighs in and breaks the whole thing up.
25% : The two-year debt ceiling suspension wasn't even enough for Trump, who later called for its elimination altogether.
14% : Naturally, Trump attacked those who voted against it, bellowing that infidels like Rep. Chip Roy, of Texas, should be primaried for their traitorous behavior.

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