I believe that wholeheartedly, the way you phrased it anyway. I've been calling for this for decades-- but who am I, someone who works with needy people and not influential in political circles.
Someone needs to go in with no agenda for reelection, and do it with wisdom, after looking at the best studies and consulting the best minds. It's won't be DOGE, run by a man who has so many special interests and took so little time to study the problems that it doesn't even register. It's not TACO and his Conflicted Cabinet of Clowns. It needs to be a real politician (or 10, or 10 thousand) who doesn't care about what the public thinks, but is just willing to execute the job and be despised for it. No one wants their pet projects cut; That is understood. The current Clown Cabal are all in the back pockets of the wealthy, though. They ARE the wealthy, and they are not patriots. Certainly, during this time of crisis, we CAN'T keep enriching the multi-millionaires. Those who have benefited more from U.S. ingenuity, natural resources, laws, opportunities, etc. simply need to pay more. Starting with Lone Skum, excuse me, Elon Musk, on down the line.