Just a footnote on Dutch coalition politics: typically when budget cuts are needed, coalition party A and B each have to take care of these cuts in their own favorite department. So e.g. a left leaning party would have to cut social security spending and a right leaning party the defense budget.
The current coalition doesn't do that, which is one reason it's dysfunctional. DOGE suffers from the same problem: only cutting things you don't like doesn't work in the long run, you have to cut things you do like. That said, things that work in one political culture may not work in all.
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