Editing Republican Party (United States) (section)

====Spending====
Republicans advocate in favor of [[fiscal conservatism]]. Republican administrations have, since the late 1960s, supported underfunded sectors like national defense, veterans affairs, and infrastructure.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Milkis|first1=Sidney M.|last2=King|first2=Desmond|last3=Jacobs|first3=Nicholas F.|date=2019|title=Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power|journal=Perspectives on Politics|volume=17|issue=2|pages=453–469|doi=10.1017/S1537592718003511|issn=1537-5927|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=November 12, 2014|title=The Rise in Per Capita Federal Spending|url=https://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/rise-capita-federal-spending|access-date=August 30, 2020|website=Mercatus Center|archive-date=December 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214020934/https://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/rise-capita-federal-spending|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atske |first=Sara |date=2019-04-11 |title=Little Public Support for Reductions in Federal Spending |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/04/11/little-public-support-for-reductions-in-federal-spending/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}}</ref>