House Republicans should create ‘New Federalism’ budget

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has suggested a “national divorce,” a breaking up of federal spending and distribution by state.

Julian Zelizer: The brewing battle over the budget, inflation, taxes and the debt ceiling creates the perfect conditions for renewing one of the epic struggles of the last half of the 20th century: the debate between those driving for a much more powerful, central, federal government, controlling the entire economy and the behavior of all Americans, pitted against those “federalists” Zelizer says.

A possible strategy would be to create an entirely new federal budget and frame it around (New, New) Federalism.

The politics of this are interesting. Special interest groups, congressional committees and federal agencies will scream.

But, when states and cities run the numbers, they may welcome the shift to local control.