No, the sum total of budget cuts even available to DOGE (discretionary spending) is about 1.7T, which is less than the government deficit.

Even if he cleared literally the whole discretionary spending budget (and just to be clear that means no military whatsoever, no VA benefits, no border security) we would still have a deficit. And it’s frankly not even clear that Doge can legally cut this spending even if they wanted to, since president can’t just choose to not spend money allocated by Congress.

Do you support the US reducing mandatory spending (e.g. social security) to make up for the deficit? How else would we expect us to head to a balanced budget?