Read in the Washington Examiner: “Jake Johnson … plans on opposing increasing the debt ceiling and aiming to root out waste, fraud, and abuse”

WASHINGTON, DC — Last night, the conservative Washington Examiner highlighted math teacher Jake Johnson’s plan to make the numbers add up in the federal budget. The article highlighted Jake’s support for a balanced budget amendment, how he will not vote to raise the debt ceiling until the budget is balanced, and his plans to crack down on government waste, fraud, and abuse.

Read the key takeaways:

Washington Examiner: “Meet the Democrat adopting the GOP’s spending playbook”

• Jake Johnson, a Democrat fighting to oust a Republican incumbent in a red-leaning district, plans on opposing increasing the debt ceiling and aiming to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, while vowing not to cut Medicare and Social Security, according to a policy platform first shared with the Washington Examiner.
  
  

• “This national debt problem that we have is core to the affordability argument, and so it really feels like it’s time to start taking this seriously in a way that politicians from both parties haven’t,” Johnson told the Washington Examiner.
  
  

• As part of his rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse initiative, Johnson has proposed consolidating unused workspace in government agencies, as well as restoring inspectors general who were fired by the Department of Government Efficiency. [...] Johnson said DOGE was “correct” in “identifying the government is inefficient,” but said the approach was “reckless.” Another approach Johnson outlined was modernizing the government’s technology to reduce spending on contracts.
  
  

• While reining in government spending has long been an issue associated with the Republican Party, Johnson believes both parties have neglected the issue.
  
  

• “This is one of those places where I think the Republican Party can get back to some of its roots, where it used to be, a party that understood being fiscally responsible,” Johnson told the Washington Examiner. “Dwight Eisenhower was a president who commissioned, you know, a Hoover Commission and balanced the budget, and he did it in a responsible way, and it would be nice to see the Republican Party get back to that. And honestly, I look forward to working with folks who see this as the crisis that it is.”

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