The National Debt these deficits increase stands at $38.35 trillion.
And people accuse Wall Street of short-term thinking.
The National Debt these deficits increase stands at $38.35 trillion.
And people accuse Wall Street of short-term thinking.
Republicans in Congress knew that they would be blamed in Blue states and lose even bigger next November.
Expect this executive overreach to be challenged in court.
But what it really does is get the meddlesome Trump off their backs, whether jobs are flagging or not. Jobless claims have averaged a very, very low sub-227k in 2025.
We had a few dozen billionaires in the Reagan era. Now we have hundreds.
Growth of GDP, percent change, annual, rolled over after 1984, inaugurating a new period of lower trendline growth in the economy.
You're not wrong to feel poorer.
Just look at the trend lines for the data in this chart from before 1984 and after 1984. The change is glaring. The money which used to go into the economy to grow it has gone straight into the pockets of the rich.
Meanwhile Trump had one year in 2018 at 5.32% and he thinks he's God's gift to humanity, when Bush 43 did better in 2004-2006 at 6.64, 6.72, and 5.95.
Doddering old Joe Biden comes along and averages 8.22 for four years and what do Democrats do but throw him under the bus.
It's enough to make you scream.
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Pete is nothing if not a shapeshifter like most of the people around Trump who were against him before they were for him.
That's another OMG, and it's not even lunch yet on this snow-packed 4-degree F second Monday of December.
"We'd better get rid of it . . . by then".
OMG.
And you thought Nick Fuentes was the turd in the Republican punchbowl.
Hegseth risked ‘potential harm to US pilots’ in using Signal to discuss strikes: Report
... “The Secretary sent nonpublic DoD information identifying the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory over an unapproved, unsecure network approximately 2 to 4 hours before the execution of those strikes,” the report states.
“Using a personal cell phone to conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD information through Signal risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives.” ...
“Although the Secretary wrote in his July 25 statement to the DoD OIG that ‘there were no details that would endanger our troops or the mission,’ if this information had fallen into the hands of U.S. adversaries, Houthi forces might have been able to counter U.S. forces or reposition personnel and assets to avoid planned U.S. strikes,” the report concluded.
“Even though these events did not ultimately occur, the Secretary’s actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots.” ...