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.
Spending and deficit going up is a staple of a Republican government.
“Fiscally Conservative”
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.
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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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?
I bet that treasury data stops coming at some point.
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.
They also fired so many IRS employees that they’re projecting a 500Bn Revenue loss.
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
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
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
its hard to imagine they put Elon’s Musk in charge to actually see results. Lonnie was given a hatchet to erode civil liberties and take care of Dumpy’s enemies and in exchange Musky Boy gets the power he always wanted to do the same. The system is working as intended here, the increase in spending is par for the course with Republicans; Reagan pulled the exact same shit and they lauded him for it.
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.
Friend in fedramp at tier 1 infra company said DHS is issuing POs like hot cakes in fear of losing budgets
POs?
Purchase Orders.
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.
