I guess waste, fraud, and abuse are much easier sells.

From the beginning, I've been pointing out that there can't be significant cuts without cutting the transfer payments programs.

> Contrary to Republican mythology, the critical fiscal issue with the federal government isn’t waste, fraud, and abuse on the part of federal bureaucrats; the critical fiscal issue is that the American people and their decaying industrial base can no longer afford the existing fiscal burdens of welfarism and imperialism, let alone the costly new things Trump wants to do like acquire more colonies

This point isn't well enough appreciated by most conservatives 

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By Vincent Cook
> While Elon Musk and his DOGE team have made some highly-publicized “cuts” in federal spending, much of the federal budget has been hammered in stone for a long time. It will take fundamental changes in spending patterns to make a real difference.