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For anyone suggesting cuts - please point out where they can come from

Seriously the only way to cut things would be to stop doing X, so tell me what things you don't want the public sector to do..

According to a Green friend, we should cut/stop paying debt interest, not forever, but for say ten years.

Absurd... but as a thought experiment, that would just about balance the books next year (absent an increase in public spending), but how would it help us ?
We'd compromise forever our ability to borrow - our reputation for paying our debts having being a couple of centuries in the making - and wouldn't significantly reduce the debt total over that period.

Meanwhile the pressures to increase spending on the back of the money "saved" would be irresistible.

It would also destroy the City (which provides a substantial percentage of government income) in the process.
And trash pensions.

It was Clay Higgins and it was no accident. He said:

"I have been a principled “NO” on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans, who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House."

To be honest he has a point and credit to him standing by his principles.