Why Don’t Republicans Care As Much About Cutting Federal Spending As They Do Trump’s Tariffs?

And you wonder why the base doesn’t turn up for special, off year elections. We are sick and tired of these elected quislings stabbing us in the back.

If Only Republicans Cared As Much About Cutting Federal Spending As They Do Trump’s Tariffs

By: Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist, April 08, 2025

If Republicans like Tillis actually care about lowering Americans’ cost of living, they should slash the federal budget they’ve spent years ballooning.

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It’s been less than a week since President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff blitz against foreign nations, and Republicans on Capitol Hill are already in full-on freakout mode.

Throughout the past several days, GOP members of Congress have run to their favorite legacy media talking heads to express their supposed concerns that the president’s tariff policies could result in higher costs of living for everyday Americans. The latest example of this came on Tuesday, when Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., while speaking to reporters, discussed potential price increases consumers could be seeing in the coming weeks as a result of the tariffs.

“Does that concern you?” one reporter asked, to which Tillis replied, “Of course it concerns me. I mean, my god, it’s a stability issue. … We’ve got a lot of uncertainty.”

The Tarheel State senior senator’s comments were issued the same day he expressed skepticism and frustration with the administration’s tariff policy during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. While questioning U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Tillis asked, “Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong?”

“It just seems like we’ve decided to begin a trade war on all fronts, and that’s OK, if the person who thought this through has an answer for why you go after partners that we have a very long storied relationship with,” Tillis said. “I wish you well, but I am skeptical.”

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As noted by The Hill, Tillis — who’s up for reelection next year — joined six other GOP senators in signing onto legislation introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., that seeks to “cut back the president’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs.”

While it’s logical for Republicans to have questions about Trump’s long-term tariff strategy and the potential effects it could have on their voters’ checkbooks, it’s hard to take many of them seriously when they’ve spent years contributing to America’s inflation problem through reckless federal spending. Take Tillis, for example.

The North Carolina Republican has never been shy about voting for pork-filled spending packages that have come across his desk in recent years. This includes voting for Democrat-backed measures like the CHIPS Act ($250 billion) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($1 trillion) during the 117th Congress (2021-2023).

(Tillis has also been an enthusiastic supporter of shipping endless amounts of U.S. taxpayer money and resources to Ukraine, even going as far as to insult the intelligence of conservative voters who oppose such a policy.)

Economic analyses have indicated that these disastrous spending habits are a major contributing factor to the U.S. economy’s inflation problem.

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