Imagine believing that fascism has anything to do with saving money.

This kind of credulous reporting is a huge part of why we have fascism.

In his first term, Trump increased both the budget deficit and total outstanding debt with his unsustainable fiscal policy. Now, his antagonistic and erratic trade policy is raising Treasury yields. He and his political project are brewing the very debt crisis they keep fearmongering about. The solutions they contemplate, like currency devaluation, messing with the Federal Reserve, perpetual or century bonds and a partial default on repayment obligations to China, further erode trust in the global financial system that underpins American power.

Only far right politicians (and pundits) can get the numbers over 200% wrong and not just keep their job, but still be lauded as fucking folk heroes 🤦

They also fired so many IRS employees that they're projecting a 500Bn Revenue loss.

Its what the gop always does. Republican in charge spending soars. Democrat in charge spending decreases. Its been that way as long as I've been alive.

So, they cut tons of services and research to give the money directly to DOGE and Elon. Cool.

Who's surprised by the guy responsible for a quarter of the deficit.

Sieg Heiling Space Karen and Felon Drink Bleach are remarkable failures and idiots.

Increasing costs - all to very detrimental effect - with nothing but the spread of human misery to show for it.

It's that damn military show they're preparing for his birthday

So they stole it

more spending with less to show for it. Getting less for more.

I'm so glad we couldn't fund all those aid programs with the money already set aside under the guise of cOsT sAvInGs so they still ended up increasing spending. Can we start asking them when they'll start hiring all the people back since we can now see how inefficient this administration is. I know the answer to that but one can only dream.

He forgot to carry the minus sign when calculating how much he saved. You can tell the products he has direct input on designing, either that blow up, panels fall off, they run over toddlers, or they turn into a paperweight.

Or sometimes multiple outcomes are possible

Spending and deficit going up is a staple of a Republican government.

They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

It's almost like cutting spending was never the actual plan, and they were more likely using that as a smokescreen for ideologically guided attacks on institutions they disagreed with.

Soooooo whatcha spending it all on, Cheeto? Elmo, you?

And of course Elmo didn't really make anything more efficient, he just looked at the government like an engine, took out the oil and gasoline filter, cuz only pussies use filters , took out three out of 6 cylinder because those three cylinders can just work a little harder, he took out the spark plugs because we don't party at the government, we just work hard, and he took out the clutch a nf gears because he's the world's greatest engineer, right? The engine then obviously never started again but that isn't the point, it's much lighter now, not?

Elmo are workds greatest engineer, yay!

And a large group of people actually applauded

Oh, did I mention that an enormous amount of money that elmo possesses he got from those same government for doing shit he never did? Three billion dollars to get us ready to go to Mars and for that we've seen Elmo blow up a banana over the Indian ocean. As ridiculous as they sounds, that's literally what we got.

Meanwhile Elmo has secrets been killing all the organizations that should control and or stop him, and nobody had batted an eye because that's the world we live in

Fuck Elmo, fuck Tesla, fuck spacext and fuck Elmo defenders. No, SpaceX is not an actually great company, it's a scam company, just like Elmo is.

I am shocked. Shocked! It's almost like they lied just to get more rich like greedy MFers...

But that can't be right. Right, MAGAts? Right, scumbags who didn't bother to vote?

its hard to imagine they put Elon's Musk in charge to actually see results. Lonnie was given a hatchet to erode civil liberties and take care of Dumpy's enemies and in exchange Musky Boy gets the power he always wanted to do the same. The system is working as intended here, the increase in spending is par for the course with Republicans; Reagan pulled the exact same shit and they lauded him for it.

Friend in fedramp at tier 1 infra company said DHS is issuing POs like hot cakes in fear of losing budgets