CTP (S3EMaySpecial8) The DOGE Cuts Reality Check

CTP (S3EMaySpecial8) The DOGE Cuts Reality Check
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond - all in Biblical perspective
I push back on the “DOGE cuts” panic by putting the numbers in context and asking why a few billion in trims gets sold like a catastrophe inside a multi-trillion-dollar federal budget. I also argue that public broadcasting and many political spending narratives survive on emotion and headlines rather than clear math, clear accountability, and honest tradeoffs. 
• questioning claims that DOGE cuts are widespread and severe 
• explaining why Congress must codify cuts for permanence 
• comparing a few billion in cuts to a roughly $7T budget 
• arguing growth alone cannot erase a structural deficit 
• making the case for voluntary funding of NPR and PBS 
• clarifying what cutting CPB funding does and does not do 
• critiquing baseline budgeting and calling for real cuts 
• challenging “balanced budget” claims from past eras 
• calling for facts, context, and measurable outcomes over spin 
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Welcome And Video Exclusive Week

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello, welcome to another episode of Pristitutionalist Podcast. I am your host, Joseph M. Winer. That's L-E-N-A-R-D at the French. It's not it's wonderful down the O. Thank you for tuning in. As Graham Norton used to say on his show, let's get on with the show. Hello everyone. Welcome to Christitutionalist Podcast first ever video exclusives week. What do I mean by that? Well, these that are airing on I'm looking down at my calendar Monday, May the 18th through Friday, May the 22nd, and probably another one as a Saturday monologue show, previously run video exclusive on May the 23rd, will be just that. Previously run strictly to my video channels, felt that you all across the 40-ish audio platforms and potentially reading via transcript need to hear these. So when a date pops up, they don't pay a whole lot of attention to it because you know it could have been from a month, could have been a week ago, could have been a month ago, could have been a quarter, three months ago, even two quarters, six months ago, that it originally aired as a video exclusive. At any rate, follow-up to books slash authors week, May 2026, the third time I ran a books slash. Well, second time I did a books slash authors week, second time already this year, back in October 2025. I ran three weeks in a row of that. So if you haven't checked that out yet, on Monday there was Chris Chote. On Tuesday, what day was that? Tuesday, that would have been the 12th. We had Michael Clausen talking about hybrid, hybrid publishing. Again, you recording the dog on mouth and brain don't want to cooperate. Wednesday, I had an Angel Giacomo, if I'm saying that right, I always get it wrong. Thursday, uh, we had Grace after relapse. And on Friday, what day was that? I'm actually recording this brief interro on Thursday, May the 14th. So tomorrow this will have passed, of course, by the time you hear it. May the 15th, Friday will be North of Broken and Forever Home with Holly B. Gutlinger. Story about a dog. Great story. Great talk. This week video exclusives. I don't have handy the various topics. So without further ado, let's just get one on, shall we? Okay, I was supposed to be heading out the door to go get something to eat, but I need to

The DOGE Cut Panic Claim

SPEAKER_01 3:51

sit down and talk about this while it's fresh. Left Doge lies. I just saw Richard Fowler, the most foul one, ultimate leftist. Doge lies. The Doge Panic. Doge Doge, Doge, Doge. Cuts. They made all kinds of cuts. He was on the show talking about potential nominee for the Democrat Party in 2028, and they showed like eight Democrat mayors and speculating maybe it'll come from the mayors because they could create a mayoral coalition to give them a little more uh bravitas, or I don't know what word I'm looking for here, but back each other up and stick with the foul ones complaint. Oh, they've had such a tough time because of those cuts. Oh, the cut reality check. Facts don't care about your feelings. There hasn't been well I'm not gonna talk about what there hasn't been. The left illusion lies. What there has been, Doge has cut a few billion here and there out of actual spending this budget year only. To continue them as permanent cuts, the Congress must codify them in spending bills. And the rhinos in Congress have not done that. So those there the few they have codified, and I'll get to those, the one especially, billions of dollars out of a seven trillion dollar budget. What like 0.001%? Maybe. Oh my god, it's a panic, they're slashing everything. Oh my god, all these cuts, everybody's suffering. It's next to nothing. And the primary thing that we've been talking about since Reagan years, since the 80s, and the FCC has been issuing radio and TV licenses, like you could get them out of the Cracker Jack box to everything. Today, even there is satellite radio. You could get talk or music radio anywhere on the planet by satellite. Now, long ago before I was born in 62, there was reasonable sense for PBS and NPR agencies for rural areas that weren't getting competitive market television or radio. That's not the case today. Their need to be publicly funded ended in the eighties, long ago. It is now time for you on the left, if you want to keep NPR, give your own money to NPR. But that's always the rub. The left doesn't want to fund anything out of their own money. They want to steal tax dollars from everybody else to give to national loftist propaganda radio stations to keep them afloat. Heaven forbid NPR, DBS2, and more about them in a minute, have to act like actual competing stations and get commercial ad revenue to keep the station afloat. Or again, ask you leftards to donate to them. But you won't do that. You don't give your money, you want to steal everyone else's money. PBS, full disclosure, I in the past have donated to my TBS Channel 56 here in the Detroit, Michigan area. I have donated in the past, won't ever do it again. Don't do it now because I'm on disability budget, can't afford to, but even if I were still working and had my six-figure salary, I would not be donating to PBS. Compete like everybody else. Mr. Rogers neighborhood, worth trillions of dollars. Let them help prop up PBS if that's the stations they're going to stay on. PBS can compete. Ask for more money from those who want the channel and or run ads and compete like every other TV station on the planet does. Enough. Congress did eliminate CPB, right? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Permanent

NPR And PBS Funding Argument

SPEAKER_01 10:10

cut for now. If the left gets control of Congress again, of course, they'll immediately put those monies back in the budget. So a billion dollars out of a seven trillion dollar budget, but Richard Fowler is screaming. Oh, it might be a mayor because mayors are hard and tough and dealing with the issue of all the doge cuts. Liar, liar, absolute liar. Democrat lies matter. Clickbait garbage. And I'll pack on uh my Suno song clickbait everywhere on the end of this. Let me write that down. Clickbait so I don't forget circle at. So a few billion dollars out of seven trillion dollars, but you know, Democrat mayors are suffering and dealing with all these cuts that aren't real, that aren't there, aren't really affecting them. The doge lies, the doge boogeyman, the left doge lies is what this is about. We do need more cuts. Growth alone, and I've written on this at the Forks

Why Growth Alone Fails

SPEAKER_01 11:43

News and on Substack, growth alone will not solve our problems. You cannot grow enough to then create enough extra tax revenue coming in to eliminate the two trillion dollar deficit. Yes, even on during Trump's second term, even with tariff money, even with the few pizzly doge cuts there's been, there is still almost a two trillion dollar deficit because the rhinos in Congress won't cut anything, and Trump refuses to veto the spending bills. He's a pragmatist, he's a populist, he's not a conservative, he will not veto the spending bills with all the continued spending. He signed both continuing resolutions this year that had tons of Biden spending extended out several more years in it. He's not cutting either. Doge's was for show. Doge's was a dog and pony show. Doge's cuts are next to nothing. It's like you having a bowl of rice and taking out three grains of rice. Oh my god, you're gonna starve! You're missing three grains of rice in that bowl of rice. Ridiculous analogy, ridiculous metaphor, but it works. That's the reality here. No one is no one except leftist money laundering operations like under the USAID situation, money laundering to leftist non-governmental organizations. And as I dropped earlier today, the discussion with the weird Canadian, they're not nonprofits, they're leftist Democrat Party front groups. You give them a billion, a million dollars may go for the cause of condoms in the Congo. How about you leftists? If you're concerned about condoms for the Congo or whatever, start a nonprofit, a real nonprofit, a 501c3 here in the states, and you give your money, you collect donations for gay sesame street back to PBS, gay Sesame Street in Iraq. Yes, an NGO was helping fund that with money stolen from you through the USAID program. No, you want to do that, use your own money. You don't get to steal it from the rest of us to do that and line your pockets, which is mainly what was going on. You get a billion, you spend a billion, but you pocket the 999 other million from that program to distribute amongst yourselves. That's the game that Doge brought to an end, and it's a few billion here and there. And that's it. All things you could be doing as a nonprofit on your own rather than stealing from the taxpayers. So, at any rate, uh I could give a myriad of examples, but I don't want to drag this out. You either get it or you don't. And the left doesn't know, they don't want to know, they want to live in a delusion. And that's why they're talking about the mayors who will be able to talk about how hard things are since the dog cuts as a potential nominee to peddle more BS. Because the NM Media covers for them like Richard Fowler was doing today. The doge cuts, the dog cuts, pennies on the dollar, not even pennies, fractions of a penny on the dollar. A few billion out of a $7 trillion budget, still a true $2 trillion deficit, and debt growing exponentially out of control. And our nation, I hate to break it to you, even though the dollar still currently is the reserve currency of the world. We can go belly up and bankrupt like the Soviet Union did. It can happen, and that's what the left want. Cloward and Pivon, look it up. If you don't know, you leftists, you advocate Coward and Piven, even though you are too foolish to know who they were and what the strategy is that you're ultimately advocating for. At any rate, all right, let me wrap this up. Let me play clickbait everywhere. Facts matter, details matter, history matters, context matter. The left can't deal in any of that. Just emotional hysterics. Thank you all. Take care. God bless. Apologies before I get to my clickbait everywhere song music video for those looking behind the scenes on video. Well, this is a video exclusive, but eventually it may port over to the audio platforms. Anyway, just got back, pulled up my Olga's kitchen cup, my orange, oh, excuse me. My orange cream cooler. I'm still finishing. And shout out to Desiree and Savannah and Tulip. I jokingly call her Tulip. Yes, I've forgotten her real name that is a flower. I I don't think it's Lily. That's another restaurant. I don't think it's Rose. That's another person at another. But anyway, shout out to my friends at Olga's Kitchen in Taylor, Michigan. I made some notes. I was over there for Liner or Lunner, as I originally coined in Terror Strikes Coming Soon to City Near You back in 2006 version. The two 2022 version of the book is still available. Tinyur.com slash JLD

Quick Break And Personal Check-In

SPEAKER_01 18:49

on Amazon. Tinyur.com slash JLD on Amazon. At the Lunar Lunner, like brunch, right? Between breakfast and lunch, lunar between lunch and dinner. At any rate, I seem to be one of the few real conservatives. Actual values and principled conservative. It doesn't flip-flop, it doesn't waffle, it doesn't go silent during a Republican presidency. I have been consistent in talking about deficits and debt since Ronald Reagan years. Yes, Reagan ran deficits. Yes, he had a Democrat control Congress, so we had to keep

Books Plug And Fiscal Consistency

SPEAKER_01 19:48

making deals in order to get his spending priorities through running deficits. Every single president, I've talked about it. And you can also go, baseline budgeting is an issue. I've been talking about that forever. The article I wrote 15 or 20 years ago still is valid today at theforgenews.com. Baseline budgeting for dummies. Now I didn't title that to Call Everybody Stupid. You know, the economics for dummies, billiards for dummies, tiddlywinks for dummies, series of books, the four dummies series of books were popular at the time. Hence, baseline budgeting for dummies was the title to you know be in vogue with that trend, the four dummies series at the time. So tinyurl.com slash JLD on B4IN, the number four in there, or J slash JLD articles, if you prefer. During Reagan, we weren't talking trillions in deficit. We weren't even talking hundreds of billions. We were still talking in terms of millions of budget deficit. And I was talking about it. I've been consistent. This is not sustainable. We weren't even talking the percentage of GDP we're talking about today. Then the budget itself, the deficit, and the debt as a percentage of GDP were still at least within reason. But because we didn't do anything about it then, these decades later, it has gotten exponentially worse. So I need this second segment to drone on more about. If we were to freeze the budget, not spend one penny more throw-based budgeting, go back to zero-based budgeting, and not increase one penny more of the seven trillion we're spending a year for anything more. Each department X A through Z. You all get the exact same money you're getting now for the next ten years. The budget still would not be balanced. We would still be running deficit ten years from now. This is reality. This is real math. This isn't coming on. No matter how much the laugh, I'm telling you, your unicorn fantasy math will work. It doesn't. It will

Budget Freeze Still Runs Deficits

SPEAKER_01 23:32

grow the loan. Growing the economy and increasing the revenues will not cover that two trillion dollars in ten years. And by then, ten years from now, again likely trillion dollars of our GDP not sustainable. That we were fighting. I deal in reality here. And it came others deal in it too. It doesn't change when there's a Republican president. I don't change. I can't existence. I'm a real conservative. I'm a real Republican. I'm a real constitutional. These things matter and they don't waffle. They don't change based on what letter the president has beside their name. Alright, so growth budget freeze ten years from now. Baseline budgeting. Deficit debt. Yes. What is that? Oh, real math, yes. 50 trillion, yes. Real math. Alright. Blah blah blah. I have to clear up something else. Never challenge the budget. Period. Sorry. Not sorry, Luke. Love you. And you deserve credit for at least basically budgeting. Again, they did not hide the spending. They slowed the rate of growth in spending so that growth in the economy would raise more taxes and shrink the deficit. Lower that gap. But they never balance the budget. Period. No matter what Newt Ingrid says on TV, he's lying. Sorry, Nuke, stop lying. You and Clinton deserve credit for what you did. But you did not balance the budget. You both moved a lot of things off budget to hide it from the budget. But every

Clinton Era Budget Claims Challenged

SPEAKER_01 26:16

year of eight years of Bill Clinton, the deficit remain, and the debt came the deficits came down. Yes. Again. Thank you. You deserve credit for that. But you didn't balance the budget. You tried the growth thing, like we tried during Reagan. And Trump talks about now. It failed then under Reagan. It failed under Clinton. It's going to fail now. Growth alone won't solve the problem. You've got to cut spending in real dollars. You can't just slow the rate of growth, or as I said, freeze the budget. We will still have a deficit in ten years and fifty trillion a day. It's not sustainable. That is you freeze the budget. There must be real to the budget. There must be the math. Real math. A real will tell you that. Mother Jones opinion garbage. Real Go to Frigery.com Go to White House.gov. Go look at the real numbers, the actual numbers from the Clinton Years. So the budget wasn't balanced. If we paid the interest on the debt alone, it froze. If we were just paying less than the interest on the deficit. Right? If you pay just the interest, if you get a HELOC, an interest only HELOC, uh, you know, a home equity line. Interest only, you pay the interest every month, the principal of the loan remains the same. You must pay on the principal to bring the principal down. But if the debt you were paying the interest like during years, the deficit not the debt, I keep keep saying that. The debt, the debt would have remained at x trillion, but it didn't. It kept going up because we were adding to the debt via deficits. So thank you, Luke, for trying. Thank you, Luke, for doing what you did. And even Bill Clinton, I'll give you some credit for signing those bills and signing those spending bills. You helped. You did something. It wasn't enough. And 9-11 happened and everything went out the window again. So, all right, I'm I'm gonna end it there. Lead into the clickbait everywhere, video and the media, all over online, the left, constantly, constantly spite spin and cominomics, unicorn fart fantasy, delusional BS. We deal in reality here. Facts matter, details matter, context matter, history matters, all these things matter. Truth that you get here matters. Thank you all. Take care, God bless, love you all.

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Red phone big screen Another cheap scale for an empty feet Oh the screen Cut out the town's more real children, so we'll play me give me all today twitter sponsors, crowd in the frame Look, they all agree You trip every word in the fifth of me

Clickbait Song And Media Critique

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Not a mood today Can film every road to wheel the back I want more than the Give me top of the one Stop the What's the claim Ask the question in the context Comp through the confusion Go up through the boot job everywhere headlines off the street Details matter, context matter, reality versus the loser history matters for the real journalists on the just transcribing someone's play Won't more than I mean, give me taste, give me time, tell me who the why.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Vocalize it was a running scroll on the screen during the behind the scenes video. Therefore, you can't hear what is shown on the screen if I don't vocalize it. Back to PBS and uh Corpor C VR Corporation for Public Oh C P V. Corporation for Public Broadcasting, not C Vortro. The Congress did not mandate them out of business. They just eliminated the taxpayer extorted funds be given to them. NBR, PBS stations everywhere do not have to shut down, they just have to either start putting on more commercials to cover their costs to stay on the air, or demand

CPB Cut Versus Forced Shutdown

SPEAKER_01 34:58

more of you left cards who want to steal money from others for your propaganda stations to actually step up and fund them yourself. Step the bleed up. You want NPR? Pay for it! Donate to it. You want PDS? Pay for it! Donate to it! Sesame Street, I think I covered this alone, Mr. Rogers neighborhood. Several shows on those platforms are multi-billion dollar entities can pay to keep those things on the air themselves, and keep them afloat themselves. They don't need taxpayer dollars. Bottom line.

SPEAKER_07 36:16

Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin. And will heal if we are called by your name, we bow our heads to the floor, dust on our hands, hearts open. We come and ask for more. We lift our eyes to your face. Hear us now. Hear us now. We are kneeling, we are turning back, heal all this, heal give us love, hey heal our lay We see your face, we see your

Prayerful Music Interlude

SPEAKER_07 38:07

face Come and wash us clean Heal our land has been in our bones If mercy has grown cold Teach us to walk in kindness Teach us to know you hold Every woof and every feet every dark every time And hidden place below this shall be known by fruits Like a spell down an evil prevail Your actions tell the tell We are depressed But who we are We are called Blessings to be us now Heal us now We are healing We are time Heal Healet Healet Forgive us Lord Forgive us Lord Heal I We see your face We see your face We see your face Come and wash us please Heal our bed From heaven you hear us From heaven you move When we come humble to make all things do We turn, we pray, we seek your name And mercy all my friend Heal our Heal Heal Forgive us Lord Forgive us Lord Heal We see your face We see your face We see your face Come and wash us clean Healing From our gold dead end The eight Fish Comedy Crafts got us a bit of cleaners We got news for you on God Love We go I got to my god do I got from us to never tell us We hold it too five forever From our cold hands, you won't take them on my right silence. I get this from our cold hands, you won't sell forever.

SPEAKER_05 45:04

America two fifty. Wow seemed to lost their way. Our Judeo Christian Foundation Freedom ringin' for me and you America 250.

SPEAKER_04 45:34

We're looking in the mirror. Some folks lost the map, but we can see it clearer. Real US Patriots Standing in the rain, holding on to the promise, keeping faith in the name. Jude or up, Christian roots run deep. Tried and true.

SPEAKER_07 45:56

We keep what we keep through the hard days, through the fight. We still know wrong from right. Freedom ringing for me and you freedom ringing, tried and true. We stand up, we won't back down. We're putting strong in this hotel. Freedom ringing for me and you freedom ringing Red, white, blue, hand on heart when the flag goes by. Sparks in the midnight sky. Moms in the pews, Dad's on the porch. Kids still learn what this country's for. Judy or up, Christian roots run deep, tried

Patriotic Song And Final Note

SPEAKER_07 46:55

and true. We keep what we keep through the hard days, through the fight. We still know wrong from ride. Freedom ringin', for me and you Freedom ringin', tried and true. Oh we stand up, we won't back down. Republic strong in this hometown. Oh freedom ringin', for me and you freedom ringing red, white, blue, oh, wait, oh We're not done, not by my We'll keep this fire, keep this trial World Nation, still rising strong faithful still belong Freedom ringing for me and you freedom ringing, tried and true. Oh, we stand up, we won't back down Republic strong in the next hometown. Freedom ringing for me and you Oh freedom ringing white blue Patriots the people we part two freedom for me and you We hold these truths to be self-evident All endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

God bless America for another two fifty years.

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We need your help.

SPEAKER_01 49:02

Thank you for having tuned into another Christitutionalist podcast show. I really appreciate that you stop by. Again, please like, share, subscribe. We need you to help spread the Christitutionalist movement. Thank you again. Take care. God bless. Love you all.