Showing posts with label Spending 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spending 2025. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

New so-called conservative Tax Foundation analysis says Trump/GOP tax and spending bill heralded on the Fourth of July benefits the richest taxpayers over the poorest taxpayers by 4,435%

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   The One Big Beautiful Bill Cuts Taxes Across the US, New Analysis Finds ... At the county level, the largest average tax cuts are found i...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Three in four Americans say groceries are so expensive they’ve been forced to cut down on entertainment, travel, clothing, and food and drink away from home

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   Reported here . So, what do those of us cut, who long ago completely cut out entertainment, travel, food and drink away from home, and me...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Unbelievably rosy GDP report contained core pce inflation data at 2.9% countering previous rosy core cpi inflation report at 2.6% and indicating rising inflation

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 U.S. economy grows by 4.3% in third quarter, much more than expected, delayed report shows   The U.S. economy grew at a much greater-than-e...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Not with my money dammit

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  $3,000 to Illegal Immigrants If They Self-Deport by December 31
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Even Larry Kudlow recognizes that GDP hasn't been good since 1984

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... The last time real GDP hit 5 percent for the entire year was Ronald Reagan’s 1984, where the number was 5.6 percent for that whole yea...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Congress has authorized no such expenditure by the president and they've already left town for the Christmas holiday

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  Trump announces ‘warrior dividend’ of $1,776 to every U.S. soldier in primetime speech   ... “And the checks are already in the mail,” he ...

Federal employment is now down 271k since January, almost 9% vs. the 75% promised by Elon Musk

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Employment by state governments is down 47k through November. Employment by local governments is up 130k. That means employment by governmen...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Trump's FY2026 deficit through November is $457 billion but he thinks he has tariff revenue to play around with to bailout the farmers his own tariffs screwed

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The National Debt these deficits increase stands at $38.35 trillion. And people accuse Wall Street of short-term thinking.   
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Trump spending in October 2025 was the second highest for outlays in thirteen months, with a deficit 92% higher than the FY2025 monthly average of $148 billion

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October revenues were 7% below average. I thought the tariffs meant we were swimming in money?
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Trump & Company just make stuff up after the fact about the drug boat attacks, which is their modus operandi

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 Shoot first and ask questions later. When Elon Musk went in all gangbusters cutting government willy nilly from January 20th, he was immedi...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Straw Man Vance

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  Prioritizing Ukraine Over Your Own Country Is Bonkers Vice President JD Vance, X   Hundreds of millions of dolla...
Monday, November 24, 2025

DOGE ends with a whimper as Elon Musk's chainsaw for bureaucracy goes back on the shelf, hardly used

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DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ and disbands with eight months left on its charter   ... “That doesn’t exist,” Office of Personnel Management Director ...
Friday, November 21, 2025

The national debt quietly plowed through the $38.2 trillion level on Tuesday, adding $2 trillion more in red ink in just 4.5 months after Trump's Big Ugly Bill became law

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Monday, November 17, 2025

The period is also marked by the phony utopianism of the libertarian Americanists who exalt the individual and deny that there are any limits

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 In their idealism they are little different than Zohran Mamdani.  ... The United States is undeniably the beacon of hope for the world bec...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

This is quite utopian for Elon Musk to say, especially after failing so spectacularly to cut federal spending

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

House passes continuing spending resolution 222-209 and sends it to Trump who will sign the bill and end the longest federal government shutdown tonight

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  House passes funding bill to end record-long government shutdown, Trump set to sign
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Chief Democrat among them is Trump though lol

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Schumer Under Fire From Dems      It's amazing how Schumer is somehow to blame for the seven Senate Democrats and one Independent who vo...

So-called fiscal hawk Republican Jodey Arrington (TX-19) won't run in 2026, says Trump is committed to reversing the curse of public debt but doesn't know where the president is lol

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  Let me tell you where you are, Jodey.  Four months after you passed the Big Ugly Bill under reconciliation rules, rules which Mike Crapo i...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Gang of eight Democrats in the U.S. Senate join Republicans to end the longest federal government shutdown in history

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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) Sen. Angus King (I-ME) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Se...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson wouldn't know chaos if it walked up and introduced itself

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  Democrats Wielding Chaos as a Strategy Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness   This guy is delusional.    I th...