(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) issued a statement announcing that the nation’s top fiscally conservative organizations have joined forces to create a new website that will provide taxpayers, the media, and Congress with the most up-to-date and comprehensive recommendations to cut federal spending.  The website, slashspendingnow.org, has been established by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), along with Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), the National Taxpayers Union (NTU), and the 60 Plus Association to provide a clearinghouse of information to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (“Super Committee”) that has been tasked with finding an additional $1.5 trillion in savings to reduce the national debt.

“I am pleased to spearhead the website and we are proud to partner with our fiscally conservative allies, all of whom have substantive and specific waste-cutting proposals, as well as sound ideas for entitlement reform.  While the initial purpose of the website is to be a resource for the Super Committee, it will also serve as an ongoing fount of information for Congress and the executive branch as details of deficit reduction are required over the next decade,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz.

The website is intended as a one-stop shopping site for anyone interested in the best recommendations from experts on government waste, taxes, and entitlement reform.  Slashspendingnow.org will include links to substantive resources and reports on deficit reduction, as well as provide an ongoing discussion focused on how best to cut spending without raising taxes.

“Taxpayers won the debt limit debate when fiscally conservative lawmakers refused to put tax hikes on the table.  These same lawmakers can be expected to hold strong as the debt limit negotiations continue in the Joint Committee.  Slash Spending Now will be an important forum for the significant spending reform that must be made, and will serve as a reminder to fiscally prudent lawmakers that taxes can’t, and won’t, solve a spending problem,” said Grover Norquist, President of ATR.

“The Super Committee’s work will be anything but super unless the best and brightest ideas for taxpayer savings become front and center in the fiscal policy debate.  This project is vital to ensuring that policymakers focus on the problem afflicting our nation’s finances: overspending, not undertaxing,” said Andrew Moylan, Vice President of Government Affairs for NTU.

“60 Plus Association strongly believes that we need to cut the federal deficit and the debt, which is out of control.  Senior citizens have to live on fixed incomes and Congress should as well,” added 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin.

These organizations have been fighting wasteful spending and higher taxes for many years and represent millions of taxpayers who agree that the problem in Washington is too much spending rather than insufficient taxation.

Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.  To learn more, visit www.cagw.org.

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