This is how you get to a balanced budget. It is the only way to get zero based budgeting because you do an end run around congress. They would never vote for it. If Doge can wipe out the existing budget baseline, then even though congress has to vote for each expenditure, they won’t be starting from the existing baseline.

They would never vote for drastic cuts, but if you start from zero they can give each program an up and down vote. They would have to justify spending the proposed dollar amounts and not just to keep something that was already on the books. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musks-doge-zero-basing-federal-government