Despite aggressive cost-cutting by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, federal spending has reportedly climbed by $154 billion since Donald Trump returned to office.
Government spending is significantly higher under Trump’s second term compared to the same period in 2024 under Joe Biden, according to the analysis by the Wall Street Journal, citing the Treasury Department’s daily financial statements.
The increase—$154 billion—comes even as DOGE, led by Elon Musk, touts $150 billion in cost savings through job cuts, contract terminations, and the rollback of diversity and aid programs.
I’m so glad we couldn’t fund all those aid programs with the money already set aside under the guise of cOsT sAvInGs so they still ended up increasing spending. Can we start asking them when they’ll start hiring all the people back since we can now see how inefficient this administration is. I know the answer to that but one can only dream.
It’s almost like cutting spending was never the actual plan, and they were more likely using that as a smokescreen for ideologically guided attacks on institutions they disagreed with.
I am shocked. Shocked! It’s almost like they lied just to get more rich like greedy MFers…
But that can’t be right. Right, MAGAts? Right, scumbags who didn’t bother to vote?
Sure, are you going to believe the numbers out of the Treasury? Probably fake news by the Democrats and things are better than ever under DJT!
it’s so sad that I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not… this sounds too much like a real thing that would now come out of official government communications.
That’s part of the problem with this administration. It’s not that I disagree with their reasoning or their use of facts or figures. It’s that they don’t have any solid reasoning and facts and figures are misinterpreted or deliberately ignored. Even worse, they have taught their fans that if any facts aren’t convenient, you can safely ignore them. Basically, the perfect recipe to make our country a joke.
It’s that damn military show they’re preparing for his birthday
Well, that, and the unexpected uptick in deportations to fucking everywhere, Narnia included. It’s expensive, shoving all those kids into a fucking dresser. They scream a lot, and the poor agents need lots of vacations to recover.
Additionally, burning most of the air traffic controllers at the stake probably doesn’t have anything to do with a dozen mid air collisions on the daily. That’s all free anyway, thank god.
And launching all the irs agents into that volcano? Yeah, we probably shouldn’t have done that, but hey! Big Balls won $50 on a scratchy! That’ll help offset!
And sucker punching every person, in every country that’s ever bought or made anything outside murica? It was pretty funny, but that’s gonna sting soon.
And we never made any fucking money on tourism, so it’s fucking GREAT that nobody ever comes here now!
Which means all those people at the national parks were obsolete, so fucking dump them!
And disaster recovery? After a disaster? Sorry, we can’t. You don’t think Big Balls won on his first scratchy, do you? That’s cute!
How do I get deported to Narnia?!?!?!
You gotta hang around in your rich aunt’s wardrobe or something like that.
Hoping he becomes the next tank man.
They didn’t run over tank man
They can start with trump then.
I bet that treasury data stops coming at some point.
Exactly, it has stopped since then!
In his first term, Trump increased both the budget deficit and total outstanding debt with his unsustainable fiscal policy. Now, his antagonistic and erratic foreign policy is raising Treasury yields. He and his political project are brewing the debt crisis they keep fearmongering about. The solutions they contemplate, like perpetual or century bonds and a partial default on repayment obligations to China, further erode trust in the global financial system that underpins American power.
They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Only far right politicians (and pundits) can get the numbers over 200% wrong and not just keep their job, but still be lauded as fucking folk heroes 🤦
Their voters seem to only care about what these politicians say, rather than what they actually do.
They’re never going to hear this on fox much less conservative radio, or Sinclair much less farther right sources.
Proving my point about them caring about what politicians say, instead of figuring out what they do. But you’re right, these people are being indoctrinated by the media they follow.
Honestly, though governmental budgets are so beyond the pale for the average citizen and walking them through the downstream effects is probably not doable wih the average attention span.
It’s frustrating because it’s really not fucking hard to pull up the federal budget for any given FY, which is presented in giant labeled blocks showing relative size, and each of them break down into their components when you click on them. When you pull it up, you see the absolutely massive blocks of Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security, and Defense, then everything else, where even a literal child can point and say which blocks are really big and which ones are small.
It’s not even that. Have you seen what they say? It’s incomprehensible sludge that they contradict the very next day. All they really care about is that there is some consistent underlying tone that the people in power hate others that are “different” as much as they do. That’s it. That’s really all there is to the cult of Trump.
Because it was always bullshit in the first place. I guess it’s well deserved for Americans because we prove it right all the time but the media really does assume we all have room temperature IQs and they just have no respect for us whatsoever
when is every media outlet going to stop playing along with this stupid “saving money” narrative? it was never about saving money, or efficiency, or literally anything any trumpistan official says it’s about
shift the conversation around the fact that they are deliberately destroying the country, and maybe something productive can happen. this whole “hey waitaminute!?! they’re nOt SAvInG aNy MoNeY!!!” is such a fucking waste of time
I can’t help but wonder who the fall guy is gonna be when the guillotines finally come out. When the rich (enough) have felt enough pain for it to trickle-up to their betters. fElon? Trump? Big Balls?
Who’s going to be the albatross around the neck keeping America from being Great Again?
Don’t think it’s going to be Trump. Their power hinges on him and his cult. Plus, he is very easy to manipulate, so the perfect marionette.
Elon seems to be a better candidate to take the fall. His cult is somewhat fading.
But honestly they might just prop up one of their goons.
I think that’s exactly why it’s going to be Trump. His cult has too much power, which they want direct control over, and also he’s old and will have served his purpose. If they can get his cult to ditch him for something more stable and under their control (The State or The Party probably), then that’s what they’ll want.
That has never happened in history. When Trump dies, MAGA falls. Thats the crux of cults of personalities. They fall apart without The Guy.
Sure, maybe, but he’s old and frail already. They’re going to try to shift it to The Party or something if they can. They aren’t going to sit back and lose everything they’ve got when he dies, which won’t be far off even if no one tries to kill him.
Theres not a single thing they can do. I can feel Donald’s death from here. Now if I were an opposition party I would be studying the fall of other regimes built around specific people, what happened when those people died? What are the differences between them? What is most like our situation? Theres an unprecedented chance approaching fast. Will they catch it?
agreed, what will MSM even talk about, if they cant do it 24/7 about trump this goes for resistance grifters too(thier survival hinges as much as right wing grifters do), not the coke fiend don jr, or the psychopath barron. they will have to steer it back to anti-trans for the moment.
This
As soon as every media outlet isn’t owned by an Oligarch
That’s the neat part: they don’t!
when is every media outlet going to stop playing along with this stupid “saving money” narrative?
when the tech oligarchs are dead or no longer in power.
it’s all theft baybay. this is a kleptocracy and a kakistocracy at the same time
Friend in fedramp at tier 1 infra company said DHS is issuing POs like hot cakes in fear of losing budgets
POs?
Purchase Order
Purchase Orders.
Sieg Heiling Space Karen and Felon Drink Bleach are remarkable failures and idiots.
Increasing costs - all to very detrimental effect - with nothing but the spread of human misery to show for it.
Its what the gop always does. Republican in charge spending soars. Democrat in charge spending decreases. Its been that way as long as I’ve been alive.
When did it decrease under the Democrats?
Clinton perhaps, after the USSR folded, I can’t recall any other times spending fell.
I am curious given the money supply grows at 10% a year whether spending can fall relative to the past 4 years. It seems mathematically impossible given just the inflation in salaries and goods prices.
Thats a good chart, so during recessions and emergencies the spending increases dramatically, then goes back to a normal path progressively upwards.
Yes, and for some reason those recessions and emergencies happen when morons are in charge. Who would’ve guessed?
Did the democrats do anything about the housing bubble?
Heres the yays and nays for their voting to deregulate banks:
Wow, that was a sharp turn.
That was a large cause of the GFC. I’m just saying its not as if democrats are much better, most aren’t Bernie Sanders.
Longer than that, I bet. This report from EPIAction doesn’t specifically mention spending increases and decreases, but all other economic indicators have been better under Democrats than they have under Republicans for at least 75 years.
Since 1949, there has been a Democratic advantage in the average performance of key macroeconomic indicators measuring economic health, including:
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth
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Job growth
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Unemployment rate
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Growth in inflation-adjusted wages
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Growth of market-based incomes per capita
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Inflation
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Interest rates
The US economy has performed better when the president of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance…The superiority of economic performance under Democrats rather than Republicans is nearly ubiquitous: it holds almost regardless of how you define success. By many measures, the performance gap is startlingly large.
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So they stole it
Nobody in this kind of website will be at all surprised.
I would be screaming at liberal America that they’ve been duped and they need to mobilize if they want to still retire or have social security or medicaid or medicare…
But reddit and google have shadowbanned me across all their platforms for doing that. Four times now.
We’re in the dark timeline guys, this doesn’t end until there’s news reports showing flames.
