Quit paving the back roads.....no need. Gravel roads are good.....
...and quit spending money on salt and brine in the winter. Drive slower or go in the ditch. Rant over

What ever became of trump promising that for every new law created he would require 3 already on the books to be removed? Oh, yeah...just political jabber.
He got serious on immigration, and pretty much solved that problem.
Then the Republicans had a shot at cleaning up the budget, but the One Big Beautiful 'aint it. It is STUFFED with pork, and everyone who voted for it is guilty of ripping off taxpayers.
In truth, there are volumes of waste and they all know it. Trump has made efforts to reign it in, but he always caves.

I got my pork out of it. Looking like 22 to 25k of my half time part untaxed ot pay. Increased child tax credits, standard deduction of 30k for married. With farm deduction added it not only brought me down to the 12% bracket but I also was able to move 20k from ira to roth at the 12% rate. Wure would be nice if I could get everything in my ira and 401 that is tax deferred into roth ira and roth 401 before I access them

And I have my first suppresor i won't have paid a tax stamp on in the system now. Need to get a few more moving.

I can go without it and would be fine with it going to the country's debt. But at the same time is nice to finally see some direct benefits personally.

Paving streets in town.

leave a bunch of them gravel , set the speed limit on all non paved roads at 20 and run a grater over them every spring.

with as little traffic as my street sees there would be grass growing through most of the gravel in a year.

Federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. A forty hour week is two hundred ninety. Fifteen thousand and eighty dollars a year. No pension plan no health benefits. Should not be any elected official, anywhere in the United States, receiving more than that as compensation for their elected position. To that we can add added positions of people appointed by elected offices. A constitutional amendment that would allow that salary to be lowered but never raised is one I would support.

Some cases reduce others cut completely

Foreign aid
Grain subsidies ( farmers don’t need 3-4 150,000 ride around vehicle)
Tax refund that is more than you paid in
Congressional salaries ( cap their salary. If they get lobbyist money their federal check is adjusted)
Any aid to non US citizens living in the USA
These may be funded but only if money left over in the budget. Stop borrowing money to give to other people