Trump discussing deficit and fraud

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For those people who habitually say Trump doesn’t know what is going on or doesn’t care or spends out of his arse, you are completely wrong.

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To get a budget passed and to keep all the lemmings happy, he knows there will be some serious horse trading. Most Congressmen are not on board with cuts just so we're clear. They may say that, but they'll add their own pork in at the end.

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Sorry, but this is absurd. There is ZERO data that Trump is advocating for reducing our deficit or our debt.

The ONLY deficit reducing policy he has advocated for is lower interest rates. He hasn't even suggested that we return to pre-COVID spending levels. And why not? It's because he knows that economic growth depends on government spending.

During his first term, the deficit climbed every single year, reaching a trillion dollars in his last 2 years, and that does NOT include any COVID spending.

He recently advocated for a $1.5 trillion military budget. The deficit for this year is projected to be anywhere from $1.7-2.2 TRILLION

Yes, there is fraud in our government, and it needs to be addressed, but we are WAY beyond growing ourselves out of this mess. Way beyond.

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Agreed. We are still spending like a 20 year old with his first credit card.

What part of Trumps actions during his first term and now make you think he’s fiscally conservative?

Audit every department AGAIN and when they can’t account for any line item, cut that from their budget after cutting an initial 5%. Forget the insane ideal of a $1.5T defense budget. Distribute any fed funds to the states as block grants after cutting the amount for each by 5%. Freeze distribution to any state until they can pass an audit and/or decrease funding by amounts that cannot be accounted for.

Abolish the department of education and any other department that has operations that a state should perform, block grant after cutting 5% and freeze funds until an audit can be passed. Abolish Homeland Security and give duties to existing departments. Combine existing departments where duties overlap after cutting budget by 5%.

Freeze foreign aid for a period of one year until they can establish a reliable accounting process subject to yearly audit, with funds frozen until an audit is passed.

Pipe dreams…. but we have to account for every cent in our places of employment, and we damn well have to pay every cent that they say we owe them.

I can see a few that they have not/are not doing. (Forgot to mention get rid of TSA-private function)

In fact, when have they cut anything?

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In fact, when have they cut anything?

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DOE

Reductions

More breakup of bearacracies

[ Foreign aid freeze

DOGE cuts

I butchered the word bureaucracies

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I know there’s posters who say he doesn’t care about the debt, he’s not fiscally conservative, and he doesn’t know what’s going on in Minnesota.

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Those are the same people that think the President controls the budget and were probably against DOGE cuts

He threw a good tantrum didn’t he saying how absurd it is. Haha

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For those people who habitually say Trump doesn’t know what is going on or doesn’t care or spends out of his arse, you are completely wrong.

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Thanks for the recap. "Those people" are keeping score -- unlike his panting lapdogs.

Let me put it this way: Trump. Doesn't. Give. ONE RIP.

He delivers words NOT deeds. He stalls and stonewalls Justice. His promises ring hollow. He delivers lip-service and teases mirages. Except to his political donors *cough* THEY get all they want and demand.

On delivering on anything that benefits, protects, enriches, or improves the standards of living for America's citizenry? Scraps. Tomorrow's promises will also be forgotten. As in 2017-2020.

STATE POWER. PERSONAL POWER. PERSONAL LEGACY. A "Golden Age" for himself and his fellow believers of his Egyptian-Roman-Babylonian mystery religion. This are what actually matters to this President.