Why is spending up?

[BrokeLoser]

I remember when Republicans were against increasing government spending.

I remember when Democrats were all for more government spending.

 

[Seymour Flops]

When we have DOGE?

Spending this time last year was $154 billion less.

DOGE claims they "saved" $150 though that is very debatable.

Doesn't seem to be working, does it.

Chart from WSJ

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But if he's saved $150 B and spending is still up over $150 B then that means tRump has spend almost 1/3 of a trillion more than Biden did in the same time frame.

This math ain't workin' guys.

I can't see any point to DOGE.

Is it just a big distraction to keep us from noticing something else?

Or is the point really just cause pain?

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doge-government-spending-increases-5903992d

It's the Department of Government Effeciency, not the Department of Government shrinkage (as I would have if President).

It goes after the Shrimp-on-a-Treadmill type waste, and I suppose that does cause pain for some(?). It is not charged with reducing spending, but reducing waste.

 

[ReinyDays]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text

It’s weird this has been all over the news and numerous threads discussing it

Latest action:
"House - 05/22/2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection"

This bill hasn't passed yet ... H.R. 1968 is the stop-gap bill to keep things funded until they can pass H.R. 1 ...

Bubba can't read ...

 

[struth]

Latest action:
"House - 05/22/2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection"

This bill hasn't passed yet ... H.R. 1968 is the stop-gap bill to keep things funded until they can pass H.R. 1 ...

Bubba can't read ...

Haha keep reading…see the part where it says passed the house?? Besides tracker?

There are literally 100s of articles on this

House Republicans narrowly passed Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill. Here's what's in it

Republicans are trying to make permanent the individual income and estate tax cuts passed in Trump's first term plus enact promises he made in the 2024 campaign to not tax tips, overtime and interest on some auto loans.

www.pbs.org

It’s concerning how clueless you are

 

[AveMarica]

Money well spent is an investment.

Paying hundreds of millions to upgrade an airplane that only gets briefly used before being gifted to a former President is not an investment, neither is spending tens of millions on a vanity parade.

 

[AveMarica]

I remember when Democrats were all for more government spending.

So which are you for? Increased government spending and increasing the deficit?

I support what Republicans used to stand for, reducing government spending and the deficit. Hilariously, the current president has run on reducing government spending twice now, and his supporters don't seem to mind at all that he keeps doing the opposite.

 

[Billiejeens]

Paying hundreds of millions to upgrade an airplane that only gets briefly used before being gifted to a former President is not an investment, neither is spending tens of millions on a vanity parade.

Neither of those are real.

 

[Billiejeens]

I remember when Democrats were all for more government spending.

It is always

 

[jc456]

So which are you for? Increased government spending and increasing the deficit?

I support what Republicans used to stand for, reducing government spending and the deficit. Hilariously, the current president has run on reducing government spending twice now, and his supporters don't seem to mind at all that he keeps doing the opposite.

I'm seriously amazed how people behave when spending cuts are introduced. kids are gonna die, people will lose healthcare, people will go hungry , blah, blah, blah.

Which are you? Are you for sure for cutting spending or are you a demofk that says anything in a thread?

 

[gipper]

So which are you for? Increased government spending and increasing the deficit?

I support what Republicans used to stand for, reducing government spending and the deficit. Hilariously, the current president has run on reducing government spending twice now, and his supporters don't seem to mind at all that he keeps doing the opposite.

Just more proof the two parties are very much alike, but uniparty members can’t see it.

 

[ReinyDays]

I'm seriously amazed how people behave when spending cuts are introduced. kids are gonna die, people will lose healthcare, people will go hungry , blah, blah, blah.

Which are you? Are you for sure for cutting spending or are you a demofk that says anything in a thread?

Great point ... Republicans are demanding spending cuts and now they're screaming about cuts to government services ... Arkansas has to use State tax money to pay to recover from tornadoes ... they knew this was coming ...

I'm keeping my mouth shut ... I hate these spending cuts BUT then again I don't pay taxes ... so as long as the Rich keep sticking it to the Middle Class ... I'm good ... paying taxes is for losers ... you don't see Donald J Trump paying taxes, now do you? ...

That's right ... you've been fooled again ..

 

[jc456]

Great point ... Republicans are demanding spending cuts and now they're screaming about cuts to government services ... Arkansas has to use State tax money to pay to recover from tornadoes ... they knew this was coming ...

I'm keeping my mouth shut ... I hate these spending cuts BUT then again I don't pay taxes ... so as long as the Rich keep sticking it to the Middle Class

how do the rich do that? Explain it for us. i grow very tired as well of the rich, rich, rich thing. it's false, misinformation, repeatedly almost daily on DNCBC. Here you are chiming in.

... I'm good ... paying taxes is for losers ... you don't see Donald J Trump paying taxes, now do you? ...

Why would I see him pay taxes? I don't see anyone's but mine. BTW, I'm happy for you on the tax thing.

That's right ... you've been fooled again ..

I'm not fooled, I am not for the BBB. They didn't do enough for me.

Cut the shit out of fking government and let it close down, I truly don't fking care. They do nothing for me but take my money and then think they can tell me what to do. Fk Real ID

 

[ReinyDays]

how do the rich do that? Explain it for us.

Capital gains tax ... for starters ...

The specific complaint is lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% ... all that tax savings was used to pay higher dividends, and not wages ...

If you work for wages, it's your employer who pays your taxes, through the withholding tax system ... the worker never sees the money ... on the other hand, Mitt Romney's filing for 2011 was over 700 pages long ... that's a lot of tax deductions don't you think? ... the wage-slave files just one page, maybe two ... see the difference? ...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

When we have DOGE?

Spending this time last year was $154 billion less.

DOGE claims they "saved" $150 though that is very debatable.

Doesn't seem to be working, does it.

Chart from WSJ

View attachment 1099618


But if he's saved $150 B and spending is still up over $150 B then that means tRump has spend almost 1/3 of a trillion more than Biden did in the same time frame.

This math ain't workin' guys.

I can't see any point to DOGE.

Is it just a big distraction to keep us from noticing something else?

Or is the point really just cause pain?

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doge-government-spending-increases-5903992d

The point is to just cause pain.

 

[jc456]

Capital gains tax ... for starters ...

I pay capital gains, so again, I'm waiting for something that is separate from middle class.

The specific complaint is lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% ... all that tax savings was used to pay higher dividends, and not wages ...

Dividends go to employees and shareholders, seems good to get their employees more money

If you work for wages, it's your employer who pays your taxes, through the withholding tax system ... the worker never sees the money ... on the other hand, Mitt Romney's filing for 2011 was over 700 pages long ... that's a lot of tax deductions don't you think? ... the wage-slave files just one page, maybe two ... see the difference? ...

isn't significant for me at all. As long as he followed law, then he didn't do anything different than the middle class.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Uh...he has the gavel. And the majority. And those deficit hawks in Congress???..nowhere to be found. They've been threatened with primaries if they come out against the savior. In the House, they call this group the House Freedom Cucks.

Republicans don’t have a Fort Marcy Park for their dissidents. Which is good because the few true deficit hawks are the dissidents- for now

 

[jc456]

I pay capital gains, so again, I'm waiting for something that is separate from middle class.

Dividends go to employees and shareholders, seems good to get their employees more money

isn't significant for me at all. As long as he followed law, then he didn't do anything different than the middle class.

ReinyDays , again, you just seem jealous Romney has more money than you. That's small.

 

[Billiejeens]

Republicans don’t have a Fort Marcy Park for their dissidents. Which is good because the few true deficit hawks are the dissidents- for now

Votes follow the constituency

The country moves to the right the representitives will
President Trump moved the country to the
Right.
Need more of that.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Votes follow the constituency

The country moves to the right the representitives will
President Trump moved the country to the
Right.
Need more of that.

the shame of it that Trump is only against Conservatives in Congress, he’s happy with current gutless “leadership”

Massie should be Speaker and Ron Paul Majority Leader in the Senate

 

[Dragonlady]

The securing our southern border costs money.....Since it was closed the bill is around 400 million. Money well spent is not a vice.

Hardly. Your government is being destroyed and rendered vulnerable to takeover, and the vultures are closing in.

Your economy contracted last quarter. Your government is in chaos. Your interest rates are stalled, investment in infrastructure is being canceled, and the bond markets are rejecting your latest offerings.

Nations are quietly dumping your debt and not purchasing new issues.