Can Trump declare the U.S debt and ongoing deficit a National Emergency to force deep cuts without resistance?

[shockedcanadian]

I said in 2016 that I believed this was your #1 National Security threat followed by China. That should suggest just how far your debt has come today as it is much worse.

Can Trump make the declaration as suggested in the title to go beyond what DOGE can suggest and in a more rapid manner?

 

[Oddball]

I suppose he could, though this "declaring emergencies" thing has seriously run its course.

I'm more in favor of just going in with a chain saw because none of it has any constitutional basis to exist, and leave it at that.

 

[berg80]

You're living in a fantasy world if you think he won't get resistance from inside the POT if he tries to make deep cuts to SS, Medicare/caid, and the ACA.

 

[Arlette]

I said in 2016 that I believed this was your #1 National Security threat followed by China. That should suggest just how far your debt has come today as it is much worse.

Can Trump make the declaration as suggested in the title to go beyond what DOGE can suggest and in a more rapid manner?

The biggest threats are climate change and nuclear proliferation.

 

[Oddball]

The biggest threats are climate change and nuclear proliferation.

^^^
This shit right here is why you moonbats lost....Absolutely no sense or concern whatsoever as to what is going on with normal people in flyover country.

 

[shockedcanadian]

You're living in a fantasy world if you think he won't get resistance from inside the POT if he tries to make deep cuts to SS, Medicare/caid, and the ACA.

Not those entitlements, but costs of running government and boondoggles.

Also, what is wrong with Rand Pauls deal that increases the age of requirement by 3 months each years until it reaches an extra two years?

People are living longer than they were 50 years ago, right?

 

[scruffy]

The biggest threats are climate change and nuclear proliferation.

That's the dumbest thing I've heard in years.

Congratulations.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

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Aren’t those the dudes Jussie Smollett hired?

 

[Arlette]

That's the dumbest thing I've heard in years.

Congratulations.

Nothing cheers me up more than the approval from some MAGA dreck.

 

[kyzr]

You're living in a fantasy world if you think he won't get resistance from inside the POT if he tries to make deep cuts to SS, Medicare/caid, and the ACA.

Trump can't make deep cuts to SS & Medicare, they are paid for benefits.
IMHO Trump needs to send Welfare back to the states in phases.
Welfare is seriously exploding, we need to put people to work.
Send welfare back to the states and save $1.3T

Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal: Welfare Is What’s Eating the Budget | The U.S. House Committee on the Budget - House Budget Committee

The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Republican Budget Committee

budget.house.gov

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CRS%20Report%20-%20Welfare%20Spending%20The%20Largest%20Item%20In%20The%20Federal%20Budget.pdf

Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare System and How to Reform It

Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, government has spent vast sums on welfare or aid to the poor, but the aggregate cost of this assistance is largely unknown because the spending is fragmented into myriad programs.

www.heritage.org

 

[scruffy]

Nothing cheers me up more than the approval from some MAGA dreck.

As usual, leftards are delusional.

If you saw approval in that, maybe I could sell you a bridge. Or some choice swamp land.

Yeah, you like swamp.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Trump can't make deep cuts to SS & Medicare, they are paid for benefits.
IMHO Trump needs to send Welfare back to the states in phases.
Welfare is seriously exploding, we need to put people to work.
Send welfare back to the states and save $1.3T

Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal: Welfare Is What’s Eating the Budget | The U.S. House Committee on the Budget - House Budget Committee

The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Republican Budget Committee

budget.house.gov

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/CRS%20Report%20-%20Welfare%20Spending%20The%20Largest%20Item%20In%20The%20Federal%20Budget.pdf

Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare System and How to Reform It

Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, government has spent vast sums on welfare or aid to the poor, but the aggregate cost of this assistance is largely unknown because the spending is fragmented into myriad programs.

www.heritage.org

Do you mean block grant it or eliminate it?

 

[Arlette]

As usual, leftards are delusional.

If you saw approval in that, maybe I could sell you a bridge. Or some choice swamp land.

Yeah, you like swamp.

Are you slow? I don't care what some MAGA thinks

 

[kyzr]

Do you mean block grant it or eliminate it?

Welfare was supposed to go to a 2-year lifetime limit under Clinton. You can google it.
I don't know how that didn't happen.
We need to transfer Welfare to the states so they can put people back to work.
I'd do it in phases, block granting, 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, then 0%.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Welfare was supposed to go to a 2-year lifetime limit under Clinton. You can google it.
I don't know how that didn't happen.
We need to transfer Welfare to the states so they can put people back to work.
I'd do it in phases, block granting, 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, then 0%.

Ok, but that doesn't lower the budget, just block grants the annual spending. The block grant is still spending.

 

[scruffy]

Are you slow? I don't care what some MAGA thinks

Sure you do.

You keep bitching about it all the time.

 

[kyzr]

Ok, but that doesn't lower the budget, just block grants the annual spending. The block grant is still spending.

The $1.5T goes off the Federal Budget as the block grants phase out.

 

[jwoodie]

Trump can't make deep cuts to SS & Medicare, they are paid for benefits.

Increases in SS should be tied to growth of the economy. I don't consider Medicare to be a "paid for" benefit in the same sense.

I like you other ideas.

 

[ThisIsMe]

I said in 2016 that I believed this was your #1 National Security threat followed by China. That should suggest just how far your debt has come today as it is much worse.

Can Trump make the declaration as suggested in the title to go beyond what DOGE can suggest and in a more rapid manner?

Well, we certainly could do without spending millions on the effects of viagra on snow crabs, or cocaine on dung beetles and getting termites drunk.....things like that...

 

[jwoodie]

I said in 2016 that I believed this was your #1 National Security threat followed by China. That should suggest just how far your debt has come today as it is much worse.

Can Trump make the declaration as suggested in the title to go beyond what DOGE can suggest and in a more rapid manner?

His strategy is to reduce the deficit and grow the economy, not pay off the debt.