Liberal, Conservative Watchdogs Jointly Recommend Nearly $800 Billion in Federal Spending Cuts

A B-1B Lancer flies by at the Nevada Test and Training Range near Indian Springs, Nev., on Sept. 14, 2007. A new recommendation for spending cuts to the federal budget includes retiring the B-1 bomber. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Officials with the conservative National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) and liberal U.S. Public Interest Research Group Foundation (USPIRGF) rarely see eye-to-eye, but that didn’t keep them from jointly recommending almost $800 billion in federal spending cuts.

Their timing couldn’t be better, because of the CCP virus—also known as the novel coronavirus—and the unprecedented economic recovery spending that it has prompted.