Source: Town Hall
by Stephen Moore
“Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled — no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions were accomplished. Even Ronald Reagan, who called for the cancelation of scores of programs, couldn’t get Congress to end the eternal life-support system. After watching Congress fund even the most inefficient agencies, he famously groused that ‘the closest thing to immortality on this earth is a government program.’ But to quote the back-in-vogue poet of the people, Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changin’ in Washington. Last week the seemingly impossible happened. Congress terminated at least a half-dozen major programs, many of which fiscal hawks have been trying to terminate for nearly half a century.” (07/23/25)