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.
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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
Hoping he becomes the next tank man.
They didn’t run over tank man
They can start with trump then.
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.
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.
Imagine believing that fascism has anything to do with saving money.
This kind of credulous reporting is a huge part of why we have fascism.
My mom’s been bitching about how she can’t pay for her water bill because of immigrants. Meanwhile the city is just trying to play catch up on infrastructure that’s been neglected for decades.
Her bill isn’t going to get any cheaper, but hey, at least everyone gets to fear for their lives now.
“God damn immigrants made my local government not do its necessary maintenance and upgrades for over 20 years, making me have to pay 20 extra dollars a month! GODDAMN THEM!”
Pretty fucking much. I’ve been arguing with her about (I know it’s a waste of time but here I am).
Her evidence:
- Some dude from the water company 10 years ago said her bills were high because of immigrants
- Some right wing fuckwad posted a video on rumble interviewing who the fuck knows who, in NYC (we don’t live in NYC), saying that the government was paying for them to have hotels and food
Mine:
- 9 fucking audits of the water company’s spending
- a report from the auditor general of the state examining the neglect of the water system
But hey, “we each get to have our own conclusion” so fuck me I guess.
I swear, ever since Obama won the presidency, I feel like the collective intelligence of the country plummeted, cause even the closet racists and “enlightened centrists” gave up any semblence of rationality to lean hard into the racism… Which trump them came in and threw jet fuel on and lit with thermite.
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Fucking love me some Not Just Bikes & Strong Towns
Fuckin sick. I’ve joined my local strong towns group. Shit’s dope as hell.
Musks only intent, from the get go, wasnt cutting costs/saving money/fixing waste.
His only intent was to undermind, disarm, and dismantle the agencies that were either actively investigating him, or held power to do so.
So, they cut tons of services and research to give the money directly to DOGE and Elon. Cool.
Who’s surprised by the guy responsible for a quarter of the deficit.
Debt. Deficit is year by year, debt is the cumulative amount. Trump create one quarter of the total debt of the US in his first 4 years.
Thank you. 🌠
He forgot to carry the minus sign when calculating how much he saved. You can tell the products he has direct input on designing, either that blow up, panels fall off, they run over toddlers, or they turn into a paperweight.
Or sometimes multiple outcomes are possible
more spending with less to show for it. Getting less for more.
Some select few are getting a lot more though.
They also fired so many IRS employees that they’re projecting a 500Bn Revenue loss.
They’re offering a second round of paid-leave-to-quit at the IRS, and a lot more employees are going to take it this time around. There’s not going to be many left.
Less IRS to go after billionaires. Theyll implement AI to make sure all the poors are taxed though.
They will make sure that they are overtaxed, too. And make the appeals process cost money, meaning they’ll have far less money and far less time to deal with the bullshit.
So much winning.
well, yeah? They have a very simple and elegant strategy called “starve the beast” that they’ve been trying to do for decades and this appears to be it
Soooooo whatcha spending it all on, Cheeto? Elmo, you?
And of course Elmo didn’t really make anything more efficient, he just looked at the government like an engine, took out the oil and gasoline filter, cuz only pussies use filters , took out three out of 6 cylinder because those three cylinders can just work a little harder, he took out the spark plugs because we don’t party at the government, we just work hard, and he took out the clutch a nf gears because he’s the world’s greatest engineer, right? The engine then obviously never started again but that isn’t the point, it’s much lighter now, not?
Elmo are workds greatest engineer, yay!
And a large group of people actually applauded
Oh, did I mention that an enormous amount of money that elmo possesses he got from those same government for doing shit he never did? Three billion dollars to get us ready to go to Mars and for that we’ve seen Elmo blow up a banana over the Indian ocean. As ridiculous as they sounds, that’s literally what we got.
Meanwhile Elmo has secrets been killing all the organizations that should control and or stop him, and nobody had batted an eye because that’s the world we live in
Fuck Elmo, fuck Tesla, fuck spacext and fuck Elmo defenders. No, SpaceX is not an actually great company, it’s a scam company, just like Elmo is.
