Part of the difficulty of arguing about this is that the effectiveness is very clearly not there. The following is from treasury.gov[1]:
21 % Social Security 15 % National Defense 14 % Health 13 % Net Interest 13 % Medicare 9 % Income Security 6 % Veterans Benefits and Services 3 % Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 2 % Natural Resources and Environment 2 % Transportation 2 % Other
To get the level of cuts they want they cannot legally do it without Congress.
[1]: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Let's wait and see for the audits of NGOs! Your opinion says it isn't working, but my opinion says it is.