You know how you can tell they are not serious about reducing the deficit?
Instead of hiring auditors to go in and find and prosecute people illegally billing the government (The biggest unsubstantiated claim they are making about fraud and abuse) they indiscriminately slash the government workforce of the people whose job is to find WFA. Claim people cheating on their taxes, fire the IRS auditors; Claim Medicaid fraud, fire the IG; claim illegal billing, fire all the contract specialists.
Then when you are done with your random firing and chaos generation, claim cost savings on all the contracts that were already executed on. 90% of a 5 billion contract is already spent? Doesn’t matter claim we saved $5B. Billions of dollars under contract to Farmers for land management, treat them like the plumber at Mar-A Largo and just don’t write the check. Sure it is a debt we are contractually obligated to pay but what’s GAAP to Trump, he’s already got 34 convictions for fraudulent accounting.