President Trump and Congress have been engaged in a flurry of activity since the President took office in late January.
There have been different categories of work, but Kansas Second District Congressman Derek Schmidt — a guest on KVOE’s Morning Show on Friday — says those categories can all be funneled into work to shrink the budget and, specifically, the nation’s debt.
Part of that work has been a wave of firings through the Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk.
Schmidt says the federal government doesn’t spend on wages and salaries to the degree of local governments, nonprofits or businesses — but it spends huge amounts for programs like Social Security, Medicare, debt interest, national defense matters and Medicaid.
Immigration, especially deportation of undocumented migrants, gained a lot of headlines as soon as Trump was inaugurated. Schmidt says it makes sense to have an America First approach when it comes to revising the nation’s immigration policy — and he says the border needs to be secured first before anything else related to immigration is changed.
Friday’s interview was the first of Schmidt’s monthly updates on KVOE. These will take place the fourth Friday of every month during KVOE’s Newsmaker 2 spot at 8:20 am.
