2025 Deficit comes in at 1.97 Trillion. This Is Way Out of Hand

[AntonToo]

A lower deficit it dropped

Wtf does that mean?

Let me make it real simple for you: Tarriff volume is not enough to even cover Trump's BBB deficit, never mind start reducing other deficit.

 

[JohnDB]

Wtf does that mean?

Let me make it real simple for you: Tarriff volume is not enough to even cover Trump's BBB deficit, never mind start reducing other deficit.

Wonder how that happened....maybe all those Democrat lawsuits trying to stop them had something to do with it.

 

[AntonToo]

Wonder how that happened....maybe all those Democrat lawsuits trying to stop them had something to do with it.

It happened BY SIMPLE MATH of what Trump's tarrifs volume is, even without any lawsuits.

Is it really so hard to look up the numbers?

 

[JohnDB]

 

[Hafar1014]

Wtf does that mean?

Let me make it real simple for you: Tarriff volume is not enough to even cover Trump's BBB deficit, never mind start reducing other deficit.

The deficit dropped since Trump took office

 

[AntonToo]

The deficit dropped since Trump took office

No it hasn’t, you just don’t know wtf you are talking about as usual.

This was BEFORE Feds had to pay back 160B for illegal tariffs.

Baseline for deficits from 2024 was to decrease through 2027 but because of Trump’s policies it’s increasing instead.

 

[Hafar1014]

• Total Deficit: The U.S. government ran a $1.775 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2025, which ended on September 30, 2025. This was a slight decrease of $41 billion from the $1.817 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2024.
  Reuters
• Revenue and Tariffs: The lower deficit was partly due to a record $195 billion in net customs receipts (tariffs), which was an increase of $118 billion from the previous year.
  Reuters

 

[AntonToo]

• Total Deficit: The U.S. government ran a $1.775 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2025, which ended on September 30, 2025. This was a slight decrease of $41 billion from the $1.817 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2024.
  Reuters
• Revenue and Tariffs: The lower deficit was partly due to a record $195 billion in net customs receipts (tariffs), which was an increase of $118 billion from the previous year.
  Reuters

Dummy, let’s do all that fancy subtraction stuff again:

which number is bigger - 41B on-paper deficit decrease or +160 billion that Feds have to now pay back?

We are 3 months from wrapping up 2026 fiscal year and deficits are through the roof with BBB, tariff payback and a war of choice.

 

[Hafar1014]

Dummy, let’s do all that fancy subtraction stuff again:

which number is bigger - 41B on-paper deficit decrease or +160 billion that Feds have to now pay back?

We are 3 months from wrapping up 2026 fiscal year and deficits are through the roof with BBB, tariff payback and a war of choice.

Biden and Obama ran debt based economy and expanded the government thats why we got 9% inflation under Biden. Democrats run an economy by printing money. Trump cant fix that mess in a a year or 2. Democrats will fight any cuts because they create power with welfare and social program fraud

 

[DGS49]

The fiscal problem in Washington is "systemic." That is to say, it is not caused by individual factors, it is caused by Congress' unwillingness to adhere to Constitutional constraints on its "powers."

The powers of Congress to spend our money are laid out in Section 8 of Article I. The Tenth Amendment states that the powers not granted to the Federal government in the Constitution are reserved to the States and the private sector (the people).

Accordingly, virtually all of Congress' discretionary spending is unconstitutional. That is to say, Congress lacks the power under the Constitution to spend money on the things that they fund. Congress has no "power" to spend tax dollars on,

• Food,
• Housing,
• Healthcare (other than for the Armed Forces and Veterans),
• Education,
• Transportation (other than for the post office),
• Saving the planet.

To say that something is "unconstitutional" is not the same as saying that it's a bad idea. Congress does some worthwhile things - even needed things - that it lacks the Constitutional power to do. The Food & Drug Administration is a good example. Maybe the EPA. It is logical that the Federal government should have these functions, but the Constitution forbids it.

But once you decide that there ARE NO FISCAL CONSTRAINTS ON CONGRESS - which the Left has manifestly decided - the budget is out of control in a systemic way.

Republicans pay lip service to fiscal conservatism, but when they attempt to constrain or eliminate unconstitutional programs, the are excoriated by Democrats and in the Press for being heartless, and if they don't go along, they will quickly be voted out of office. So they do go along, grudgingly, and that passes for "fiscal conservatism" in the current environment.

DOGE was a noble attempt at constraining the Big Three (Fraud, Waste, and Abuse), but even DOGE didn't get into the questions about what Congress funds that is unconstitutional.

We are fucked. I'm glad that, at 76 y.o., I probably won't live long enough to see the U.S. dollar collapse, taking our economy with it. Thank God Trump has made us energy-independent again; that will help.

 

[AntonToo]

Biden and Obama ran debt based economy and expanded the government thats why we got 9% inflation under Biden.

Dumbass there was 8T total dollar deficit under Trump1. It will be double that by the time he wraps up his second term.

In what way is that any less inflationary and expansionary than Obama and Biden???

In no way of course. You just have your selective partisan blinders on at all times and are completely mentally disabled when it comes to elementary macro-economic analysis.

Inflation under Obama was very low (1.46% /y avg), so obviously the causality you claim is a bunch of stupid half thoughts as usual.

 

[Hafar1014]

Dumbass there was 8T total dollar deficit under Trump1. It will be double that by the time he wraps up his second term.

In what way is that any less inflationary and expansionary than Obama and Biden???

In no way of course. You just have your selective partisan blinders on at all times and are completely mentally disabled when it comes to elementary macro-economic analysis.

Inflation under Obama was very low (1.46% /y avg), so obviously the causality you claim is a bunch of stupid half thoughts as usual.

There was no inflation or high gas costs until Biden took over. Bidens war on oil and the American Rescue plans started the inflation cycle. We never needed to be rescued Trump gave Biden a GDP of 6.4%. Then Biden suppresser oil production keeping it below demand driving up the cost. We needed to be rescued from Biden stupidity

 

[AntonToo]

There was no inflation or high gas costs until Biden took over.

Dumbass, there was also no GLOBAL PANDEMIC before Trump, but how fn stupid do you have to be to equate that to Trump causing Covid-19 or Biden causing it's after effects??

Inflation didn't happen because Biden the person, it happened because in 2020 energy production collapsed by 20% and other supply chains got wrecked by economic standstill, which caused big shortages when economy started opening back up and people shifted their spending patterns.