Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Veronique de Rugy puts the savings contained in the Republican Study Committee’s Spending Reduction Act of 2011 in context.  As shown, the $2.5 trillion in proposed federal spending cuts are far from drastic; they represent roughly a 5% decrease in spending between now and the year 2021 .

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