re: U.S. budget deficit swells to almost $2 trillion for fiscal 2026, up 12% in a single year

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Great site to visualize. Basically every single line item is going up for the last 6 years.

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My bruh, your original post, the one you keep defending, was itself a deflection.

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Saying our politicians don’t care about the deficit was a deflection?

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Doge will fix it i'm sure.

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Nah. Just need more tariffs!

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Then what was your point of saying “Dems opposed it” multiple times?

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Because blaming the "other" side is a bromide. It's not like Republicans were lining up to cut the budget either. But as long as you blame "someone else" the puppets will keep voting for your side. It's classic "useful idiot" behavior.

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However, can we focus first on the 65% of the budget currently in the red, instead of the areas actually lending those red items money, and which will remain in the black for 7 more years?

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The problem is we can cut discretionary to $0, and still run a deficit.

The GOP needs to take accountability

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DOGE never had the ability to stop spending

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correct

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it found minutia on the fringe and non-fraud programs like USAID

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bullshite. it found tons of areas to eliminate/cut. Congress never followed through and, in fact, reestablished some of the spending that was cut with the repeated CRs

It seems like this was actually old news being re-reported. Back when the Department of War was talking about asking for $1.5 trillion in the future defense bill, we were hearing phrases like “the U.S. will grow its way out of debt.” I think that statement, that we don’t need austerity is viewed with a lot of skepticism, probably by both sides of the political aisle. So, I analyzed different time blocks to see whether this had happened at any point in recent memory. Well, it turns out that during the Clinton presidency, with a Republican House and Senate, there were a couple of two-year congressional blocks (four years from 1997 to 2001) when real GDP growth outpaced debt growth. But there really isn’t a single decade when that was true.

Year_block Nominal_GDP_growth Real_GDP_growth Debt_growth Nominal_GDP_minus_debt_growth Real_GDP_minus_debt_growth
1970–2026 6.21% 2.69% 8.32% -2.11% -5.63%
1970–1980 9.28% 3.01% 7.96% 1.32% -4.95%
1980–1990 7.00% 2.89% 12.16% -5.16% -9.27%
1990–2000 4.96% 2.98% 5.97% -1.01% -2.99%
2000–2010 3.60% 1.63% 7.49% -3.88% -5.85%
2010–2020 3.58% 2.04% 5.59% -2.00% -3.54%
2020–2026 5.61% 2.24% 7.71% -2.11% -5.47%

The reason a lot of rational people are skeptical when they hear claims like that, is that, no matter how brilliant someone is or a group of people may be at innovating ways to increase a nation’s production and economic output, it will always take significantly less brilliance and intelligence to innovate new ways to spend other people's money.

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The problem is we can cut discretionary to $0, and still run a deficit.

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Do that, then act like a fricking adult and work on non-discretionary.

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The problem is we can cut discretionary to $0, and still run a deficit

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Where would you propose we “start”?