So much wasteful spending by Republicans and yet they keep yelling that they hate waste. If they want to cut waste, stop the present president from taking so many vacations to play golf.
President Donald Trump and multibillionaire Elon Musk have justified the chaotic and cruel federal cuts by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency by claiming that they’re saving taxpayers money.
“We’ve taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things,” Trump said during his rambling address to a joint session of Congress earlier this month.
And in February, he even claimed that he would send checks to taxpayers worth 20% of DOGE’s savings.
However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s February Monthly Budget Review found that spending is actually higher than it was last year, with the federal government spending $605 billion in February 2025 compared to about $567 billion in February 2024.
“The federal government incurred a deficit of $308 billion in February 2025, CBO estimates—$11 billion more than the deficit recorded last February,” the report said.
Trump will leave this country so much in debt that we will be sold as slaves to other countries.
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One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging
legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his
watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will
wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.
The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in
office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student
loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than
mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every
person in the country.
The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest
increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential
administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget
maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy
Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw
the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign
conflicts or have to pay for a civil war..
