Ryan Budget Eliminates Federal Government Except Military By 2050

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of Paul Ryan’s budget proposal and if it wasn’t so frightening it would be laughable. Remember the CBO relies on the numbers and assumptions that Ryan himself provides – they just run the numbers. And the numbers show that if the Ryan budget passed, by the year 2050 there would be no money, zero, nada, nothing to fund any aspect of government other than the military budget. By 2050, the discretionary part of the budget, that is everything excluding Social Security and Medicare, would be reduced by 3.5% under Ryan’s budget. And since Ryan does not want to cut the military budget, there would be nothing left to run any other agency, support infrastructure, deal with health emergencies, border control, FEMA, the EPA, or any other aspect of the discretionary part of the budget. There would literally be nothing left of the federal government except the military, Social Security, and Medicare. The fact that Ryan is still considered a policy wonk, even after his numbers are discredited time and again, just boggles the mind.