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.
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?
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.
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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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?
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So they stole it
So, they cut tons of services and research to give the money directly to DOGE and Elon. Cool.
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.
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.
Yes, but cutting a “big block” for instance social security doesn’t give any real sense of what it does economically.
The average person seems to lack the ability to follow a cut to the social security block reducing payments and/or increasing retirement age much less the other downstream effects when millions of old people are suddenly spending less because they no longer have as much cash month to month. Once it occurs to someone they know, then they see it, once it happens to them then they care.
