part 2 5 charts/10 years
The Heritage Budget Blueprint would restrain debt by reducing spending, as the chart above shows. In contrast, under current law, federal spending is set to massively outpace economic growth for the foreseeable future.
The main culprit for this unsustainable spending is so-called mandatory spending programs that are allowed to grow year after year on autopilot, to the point where they now represent an overwhelming share of federal spending.
The blueprint also provides a detailed guide to draining the swamp by proposing to wind down or reform a variety of spending accounts that are rarely in the news but funnel billions of dollars per year to wasteful programs and unaccountable bureaucrats.
Examples include eliminating the Community Development Block Grant Program, which is a slush fund used to facilitate outrageous pork projects, and streamlining the overly politicized Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.