VOTERS, ADVISE CONGRESS WHAT CUTS TO MAKE, BEFORE THE BOND TRADERS MAKE THEM.

The college basketball tournament brings with it all sorts of knock-off brackets.  The Cato Institute offers their 2024 Spending Madness.  "Thirty‐two unaffordable federal spending programs are going head‐to‐head in a classic, single‐elimination tournament format. And you get to decide the worst of the bunch."

Note, should you choose to participate, your selections at each round are the expenditures you would rather do without.  Submit your cuts for the first round by Friday (much like the real tournament) or have somebody else make the cuts for you.

Or, opt to do nothing, and wait for the bond traders to concentrate minds in Washington by not bidding at the Treasury bill auctions.