Robert Beers’s “America First” Cost-Cutting & Reinvestment Plan
📉 Immediate Cuts (Save $1.1 Trillion / 10-Year):
-
End Corporate Welfare ($181B/yr): Eliminate fossil fuel, Big Ag, and tech subsidies—$85 B/yr alone from outdated programs like farm bailouts and fossil incentives sfchronicle.com.
-
Reduce Bureaucracy ($30B): Consolidate 148 overlapping job‑training and nutrition programs into streamlined services gao.gov.
-
Cut Pentagon Waste ($110B): Cancel F‑35 overruns, close unneeded bases, recover unused airline tickets, and enforce clean audits en.wikipedia.org.
-
Slash Wasteful Grants & Consulting ($33B): End luxury‑project loans and cap consulting contracts from McKinsey/Deloitte washingtonpost.com+7americansforprosperity.org+7sfchronicle.com+7.
🌍 Smart Foreign Aid Reform ($250B/10-Year):
-
Redirect aid from regimes violating human rights, consolidate overlapping programs, and audit for corruption—preserve aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, global vaccines.
💰 Reinvest in Americans ($1.8 Trillion Redirected):
-
Expand Medicare dental/vision, fund 1,000 rural health clinics, deploy broadband to 20M homes, and provide childcare credits—saving every household ~$4,200/yr.
🏛 America‑First Safeguards:
-
Require “Buy American” on federal projects.
-
Reinstate Glass‑Steagall to prevent bank bailouts.
-
Apply pandemic PPP only to small, citizen-owned businesses.
🔍 Why This Plan Works
-
Fully balances the budget immediately, eliminating the $1.7 T deficit and cutting $18 T off the national debt by 2040.
-
No tax hikes; builds prosperity through targeted cuts and smarter spending.
-
Shifts power from bureaucratic elites to hardworking South Carolinians while preserving vital aid.
✔️ Added Savings from Outdated Programs
-
End $800M/year soil conservation overreach gao.gov+14heritage.org+14gao.gov+14.
-
Cut $7B on vacant federal offices under telework nypost.com.
-
Stop $55B in preserving obsolete tech myjournalcourier.com+2americansforprosperity.org+2en.wikipedia.org+2.
✅ Campaign Bill Summary
Title: America First Budget Reform Act
Purpose: Aggressively cut waste, redirect savings to health, education, and infrastructure, and preserve deficit reduction without raising taxes.
Key Provisions:
-
Repeal corporate welfare and energy subsidies.
-
Mandate audits and consolidation of duplicative programs.
-
Cancel weapon and console waste, enforce Pentagon audit.
-
Reinvest into Medicare, broadband, childcare, and rural health.
-
Enforce American-made, restore bank separation, and safeguard aid.
📢 Campaign Message
“Robert Beers will end Washington waste—no more giveaways to the well‑connected. We’ll close loopholes, cut outdated programs, and put every dollar back into American families—secure healthcare, rural broadband, quality childcare. It’s time South Carolina leads our country back to fiscal sanity and real prosperity.”
