President Trump put American taxpayers at the front of his first-day agenda Monday, planning for tax and spending cuts and freezing hiring because he believes wasteful spending that is standard in Washington is “insulting” to workers.
New White House Spokesman Sean Spicer said that the main theme in all presidential actions will be taking are of the money hard working Americans send to the Treasury.
“We’ve got to look at how we’re spending the American people’s tax money,” he told reporters.
In the past, he added, taxpayers have been ‘dissed by out-of-control spending and Trump plans to end that.
“There has been to some degree frankly a lack of respect for taxpayer dollars in this town for a long time and I think what the president is showing through the hiring freeze is, first and foremost today, is we’ve got to respect the American taxpayer,” said Spicer.
“They’re sending us a ton of money, they’re working real hard, some people working two, three jobs just to get by, and seeing money being wasted in Washington on a job that is duplicitous is insulting to the hard work that they do to pay their taxes,” he added.
Spicer said that Trump plans to approach spending like a businessman and “maximize” every dollar collected in taxes.
“It is how we spend and respect the American taxpayer dollar,” he said.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
