I sympathized with some of the original Tea Party idealism - I think the federal government does too much, in terms of breadth, and has to accept that in a (somewhat) free market society, there will be occasional major private business failures and general bad times for most - but any credibility that the Republican party would like to claim on fiscal management was annihilated during the Trump administration, with the tax cuts lacking even a whit of concurrent effort to reduce spending. For them claim to be the fiscal responsibility party now is just a sick sick joke.