If the question is how well it’s controlling spending, the answer is that it’s doing great work a terrible job:
Republicans took over the U.S. House last November, and as a result, government spending finally dropped.
Whoops….Government spending actually increased!
They haven’t reported the final numbers yet, but FY 2010 spending was $3.456 trillion, and FY 2011 spending was most recently projected to come in at $3.597 trillion. That’s a 4% increase.
Remember, there was no budget passed last year. That means that most of the FY 2011 spending occurred with the approval of the newly-elected Republicans….