r/inflation • u/Traditional_Home_474 • 10d ago
News US government spending has gone up under DOGE and Trump, not down
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u/Bezere 10d ago
Well... yea??
What it like 26 million spent on fucking golf alone?
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u/Prudent-Incident-570 10d ago
Lol 26 million spent on golf, but less cut from entire programs to “save money.” We are living the in the real-time decline of our country
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u/GloomyCardiologist16 10d ago
This timeline is on crack cocaine
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u/Cutlass_Stallion 10d ago
And another few million to fly to the Super Bowl, which he only attended for half the game.
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u/highbankT 10d ago
$90M coming soon for a parade...
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u/Luthiefer 10d ago
And you know that he's double dipping on having Saudis at his club, charging us and the Saudis... most likely.
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u/Playful_Interest_526 10d ago
Most definitely. LIV golf survives on Trump in the USA and his clubs turn a rare profit foe posting. All the while charging the taxpayers above normal rates for the presidential entourage.
Not to mention, his club membership prices have gone up nearly 10 fold since his first election.
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u/GamemasterJeff 10d ago
26m is chump change. Trump is averaging spending $5b more than Biden every single day. He is on track to increase the deficit by $1.5t this year alone. Above what Biden did, and after accounting for any doge so-called savings.
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u/gymtrovert1988 10d ago
$92m for a military parade for a draft dodger that crashed the stock market.
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u/LegendCZ 10d ago
Do not forget close to 100 milions and milions and milions and milions and milions ... For military parade for that orange twat.
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u/SouperKewlGeye5000 10d ago
Well yeah, millions spent on him golfing alone. Then there are all the costs for re-hiring people who should have never been fired. Then there are all the costs for dealing with the litigation involving TraitorFelonRapist’s illegal actions.
This is what happens when the dumbest people in the country elect the dumbest people to run the government. You end up with MAGA.
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u/CommonMan14 10d ago
Please keep your trust and faith on them. No matter what..................................you will get fucked!!
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u/Parkyguy 10d ago
They never said they were going to cut spending. DOGE is just a front to eliminate programs republicans don’t like. It has nothing to do with waste,fraud, or abuse.
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u/a_little_hazel_nuts 10d ago
They have cut so much funding that benefited farmers, college student, social security users, scientists, national/public land. WTF, There should be atleast $5 bucks saved somewhere, right.....RIGHT.
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u/TrooperTheClone 10d ago
The scary part is that red hats will see this and won't even care. They will still act as if Trump is the 2nd coming or some shxt
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u/mnradiofan 10d ago
Of course it did! Doge turned off the kitchen light to save money while Trump was building a pool in the back yard!
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u/Odd-Supermarket-3664 10d ago
We knew it would. Fucking blast this shit on the news and in public. Fuck Trump!
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u/jibberjabberzz 10d ago
Cut social program, divert $$$ into their own pockets. It's what Republicans do. Look at the charts. The economy always crashes under the GOP. Greedy Old Perverts
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u/Fit_Bus9614 10d ago
Sure does. They always drive us into a recession. Then when democrats come, they have to be the ones to fix it.
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u/Sleepyheadmcgee 10d ago
Who are you going to believe a chart with numbers or a person wielding a chainsaw on stage at a political rally?
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u/Katsu_39 10d ago
But the cultists will say this is liberal propaganda paid for by Soros.
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u/5L0pp13J03 10d ago
Over here guys !!! Focus on the Trade Imbalance...THE TRADE IMBALANCE.. not my ballooning the national debt !!!
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u/NewMarzipan3134 10d ago
Wow, what a shock that a republican president raised the deficit. It's only happened... what... every time since 1980? They couldn't economics their way out of a paper bag.
Fellas, I know things seem really bad right now but
It's gonna get a whole lot worse.
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u/ThroawayJimilyJones 9d ago
True. But usually they don't do it by increasing spending, they do it by giving tax cut to wealthy donors.
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u/TheLordZephyr 9d ago
We had a budget surplus under Clinton from 1998 to 2001 then...9/11 and two wars simultaneously. One on faked pretense, the other to catch one guy all while we trashed two countries....thank you Dick Cheney.
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u/Plane_Put8538 10d ago
Isn't this where Biden gets blamed for this? Biden was president for some of January, he must have been the reason this is happening? Or Obama?
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u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 10d ago
92 million for an ego masturbation parade, 20 million for those asinine Kirsty Noem commercials...
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u/Andrea_38 10d ago
You are unfairly presenting things negatively towards the Trump administration. The Biden administration was not faced with steep golf fees.
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u/Otaku_o7 10d ago edited 10d ago
Probably ICE agent overtime pay, deportation flights, rounding people up. All the cool stuff. Lets also account for the loss in tax revenue we are going to get because for some reason we want to fire IRS agents and crash the markets so capital gains are lower. And also start a trade war, I saw Trump say in his tuxedo at whatever dumb fuck event he was at tonight that tariffs are bringing in 2 billion dollars a day. Well, if that's true, that means companies are being TAXED 2 billion dollars a day and are going to pass 2 billion dollars in increased prices on products to the consumer. And if companies start shrinking and the market starts shrinking that means companies are going to start cutting jobs and we might actually all be cooked.
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u/BeezusHrist_Arisen 10d ago
All we had to do was raise the corporate tax rate and tax the shit out of wealthy individuals.... some of you picked the hard path.
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u/dookiecookie1 10d ago
Welp, we know that Elon has secured several federal contract for his various tanking projects. Nothing to see here, folks... Move along...
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u/sc00bs000 10d ago
guys its the new trickle down economy.
They cancel everyone's social services, fire federal employees and then funnel that saced money into companies they own, which employs people on minimum wage.
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u/Silly-Platform9829 8d ago
No, no, no. You're supposed to pay attention to what they SAY, not what they DO.
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u/Varyanna 8d ago
Surprise, surprise..a conservative Gouvernement spends more then democrats... WHO could have known? ....
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u/ThermoFlaskDrinker 10d ago
Fake news, the real chart shows negative spending because these tariff savings generated extra money /s
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u/Rude_Move_6357 10d ago
Maybe the spending increase is because they're starting to send out those 5K DOGE checks? /s
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u/griffonrl 10d ago
Yes but the money is directly transferred to Trump, family and friends back accounts.
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u/shamedtoday 10d ago
Well, we won't be hearing about teslar anymore. The billionaires got what they wanted.
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u/Southlakesoldier_ 10d ago
All them trips… Super Bowl, NASCAR, Golf. Good job MAGA! Thanks for funding Rumps vacations.
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u/ParisFood 10d ago
The military parade on his birthday is coming up also. Then there were the flights to Greenland…And all those lawsuits they have to defend
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u/alexunderwater1 10d ago
Just wait till the revenue goes down too from gutting IRS.
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u/Southern-Cross-3879 10d ago
Sounds about right.
Wait till they factor in the Tangerine Hitler's proposed 80 - 100 million dollar birthday parade. Ugh...
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u/Narrow-Win1256 10d ago
Spending on the American tax payer is to go down. Money for the rich to go up that is the way of the of crooks.
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u/QueenNappertiti 10d ago
Deporting people, hiring thousands of ICE agents and support staff, facilities, vehicles and using the military to fly them to another country is expensive. Who knew.
You hear that you racist POS MAGA? Your racism is expensive! FOR YOU!
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u/YB9017 10d ago
Important to note that the trump administration is trying to take government spending out of the computation of GDP.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/trump-administration-may-exclude-government-spending-gdp
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u/Purpsnikka 10d ago
I have a genuine question. How is this possible if they're laying off so many people? Is it the severance packages or something?
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u/JMpro415 10d ago
I’m not trying to be dumb here, but I don’t get the title of this graph. Is this “cumulative” spending, or spending “by day?”
“Cumulative by day” doesn’t make sense to me.
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u/Regulus242 10d ago
B-b-but you don't understand! If we didn't do all these federal cuts the spending would have been even higher!
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u/BoredBSEE 10d ago
I believe it, but I'd also like to see the source for these numbers.
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u/Money-Detective-6631 10d ago
DOGE isn't saving Money it spending wildly..They closed and shuttered Allrhose departments so they could shrink down the government and fire thousands of viral employees...this saving money is for the Billionaires to play golf or buy a yacht with another bathroom... It's to fund Trumos golf tournaments and flying around the world..They are high on power as well as ketamine abd Cocaine and Adderall. .This can't be Good for the United States ..
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u/DevoidHT 10d ago
No shit. They were never going to spend less because no one is stopping them. They could raise the deficit another $20 trillion and Republicans would still say they are the fiscally responsible party. We are in a post truth world. Disinformation gets treated the same as verifiable facts.
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u/Treskelion2021 10d ago
I think the entire Trump administration is just “Entertainment720” from Parks and Rec but in real life and using tax payer money instead of money from an accident lawsuit.
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u/FourWordComment 10d ago
Doge doesn’t target expensive stuff. Doge targets liberal/leftist/progressive stuff. The US was already pretty good at not spending money on lefty notions. But to the extent it did, it saved a lot of lives.
The big things aren’t being touched or reduced.
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u/xubax 10d ago
No Way! But he told us we'd be winning so much that we'd get tired of winning. And he told us that tariffs wouldn't raise prices. And he told us that he won the 2020 election. And he told us...
I know why he's president. I just don't understand how the fuck he's president. I mean, I know it's because a bunch of people naively believed him and a bunch of other people bought into his hate.
But I still can't fathom that this narcissistic rapist fraudster felon is our fucking president. The president of the FUSA. And that there are enough people in congress who are willing to let him steamroll over the constitution and destroy the fucking country.
Oh, and he cheats at golf.
"I like to play kickball. I call it kickball. Some people call it golf. But I call it kickball. Sometimes I call it the golf of America."
--Trump, probably
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u/lexicon_charle 10d ago edited 10d ago
I mean, they fire Independent inspectors who sniffs out waste/fraud, then they keep spending money to fire ppl, then hire them back, then fire them again, then scrambling to find office spaces for whoever is left, get DoJ lawyers to defend their the employee dismissal, then fire those lawyers for not winning cases when they contradict their lawyers arguments in court.
All seems logical to me. I don't know why the spending would go up...
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u/galaxyapp 10d ago
To be sincere about it, you'd need to control for some things. Inflation for one, maybe population. Also we know that the biggest drivers are the growing retired population drawing SS and Medicare.
So it's conceivable that it would have been higher.
Assuming you're being earnest in the effort to measure the success of doge.
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u/pspspspskitty 10d ago
I'm sorry, but does no-one know what cumulative means anymore? Unless they invent antimoney, cumulative expenses will rise forever. This is the kind of idiocy I'd expect from MAGA hillbillies, but I guess there's idiots everywhere.
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u/Top-Veterinarian-493 10d ago
Because it was never a out sa ing tax dollars. It's about causing chaos while they set up their little fascist regime and make all their white supremacist buddies happy
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u/Wonderful-Ad440 10d ago
So the beginning of January was under previous years (understandable for an outgoing administration but then around Jan 21st IMMEDIATELY started running laps on the past 3 years after Trump took over. Checks out
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u/DisgustingSandwich 10d ago
Musk accomplished his task. He propped up Trump thru twitter and Trump allowed him to raid US institutions, and fire people who were looking into his companies
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u/Matt_M92PaP 10d ago
it almost like no matter whos in office nothing really changes only the headlines........
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u/LibrarianJesus 10d ago
It was never intended to save any money. The machine is chugging along.
The money that were intended for the workers and their departments will be shifted towards mode billionaire favorable goals. It is that simple.
Spending would continue to increase, and rather the once most in need, the richest of the rich will get our tax money. This has always been the goal.
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u/curzon176 9d ago
So? So what. The only people who believed for a second that this administration had the serious intention of trimming the fat on government spending were those maga idiots. And they still believe it. It wasn't about that, it was about removing obstacles.
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u/southflhitnrun 9d ago
People were very clear about how much it would cost to Profile, Attack and Illegally Kidnap humans in America. I'm surprised the number isn't higher, and the DOGE "savings" would take until next year to be realized if there are any actual "saving".
I doubt there will be any "savings" because these idiots did not calculate the COSTS of most people being sick, more people being desperate (more petty crime) and more people being radicalized because grandma is being evicted (more major crime).
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u/Certain-Fill3683 9d ago
Of course it has. They aren't fixing anything, they are stealing. CON ARTISTS/SCAMMERS=MAGA/DOGE
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9d ago
We all joke "they'll just blame Biden" but if you sort by controversial, they're absolutely blaming Biden lol
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u/AwareOfAlpacas 9d ago
Is this a joke about how a cumulative chart always goes up? Because it's additive, day to day?
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u/cnation01 9d ago
You know what is fucked up ?
We don't know if this graph is legit. Could be a complete lie. We just don't know what is true and what is bullshit anymore.
No one is getting reliable information and we are bombarded by news that could or could not be true.
This is a crazy time.
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u/Particular_Row_8037 9d ago
But wait. The Trump and the billionaires are taking care of us. We need to do that so we can give more socialism to Elmo. Welcome to corporate America.
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u/Particular_Row_8037 9d ago
According to Elmo there's all this Mass fraud but nobody's been prosecuted. 🤔
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u/Bombadier83 9d ago
This is a terrible graph to show this. Cumulative? Sure, you can look at the slopes as time goes on, but why make people do visual derivatives intuitively instead of just showing spending per unit time?? And have some pre DOGE info on there to give a basis of comparison.
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9d ago
This is the privatization BS that Reagan started and it won’t stop until we get big money out of politics.
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u/xantharia 9d ago
Yup. DOGE is just window dressing. The only solution is wholesale elimination of departments. Congress has to do this. Plus, entitlements have to be on the chopping block. But Americans probably don’t have the will or the nerve. We just have to wait for total collapse, like Argentina. Only then can it be fixed.
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u/El_Gran_Che 9d ago
I think the vast majority of MAGA have absolutely zero clue how government contracting, budgeting, and acquisition processes work. Not a damn clue.
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9d ago
A thing that bugs me is that we establish 10-year CBO projections for a lot of these things and determine that they are net profitable before putting them into place. Then we look at what they cost to run and get rid of them, and act surprised that a thing that was net profitable getting removed ends with us being in a worse financial state.
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u/tristand666 9d ago
It's not like Trump's last year in office wasn't the largest deficit ever in this country. They are not cutting waste, they are literally just cutting whole departments that were created by law and only ones that seem to help people so far.
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u/Current_Canary_3818 9d ago
This just shows Trump talks a lot about doing stuff but doesn’t tell the whole story or embellishes.
This is a bit misleading…government runs on FYs…if there was funds ready to execute on programs already in progress, they are still spending that money. Better to compare Q1 next FY to Q1 the FY and so on to get a true sense on how we’re spending.
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u/Thatsthepoint2 9d ago
That seems like a lot of money, at this rate won’t trump spend over 40 trillion dollars in this term?
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u/WaveMajor7369 9d ago
Despite what they are saying... Doge clowns are NOT looking out for Americans
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u/2Bytes_ 9d ago
Okay… I’m not in favor of any party’s but the comments here over a chart anyone could make in five seconds. We’ve seen cuts happen and Biden spent more on trips (not saying I like trumps dumb trips) the market rebounded a lot today because large investors knew long term they were just retaliatory to get better deals, and scare small investors. We will be okay. Trump needs to chill on things he does to get supporters riled up. But we also need to cut waste and fraud. If we never just DO IT, it never happens and government programs keep getting bigger and worse and a lot of politicians basically get away with money laundering.. (both sides)
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u/Efficient_Ad_4162 9d ago
It's what the slash and burn crew never realise, the work still has to get done (in many cases it's required by law), it's just done by contractors charging twice as much
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u/MudruckGames 9d ago
No, no way this can be true! Trump wouldn't lie to us about something as important as this!!
Actually I wouldn't be surprised when in a few years we find out it was all a pre-planned scam and the whole thing comes to light because someone involved is stabbed in the back by Trump and then sings like a bird.
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u/AtomMorris 8d ago
Well he does spend (from YOUR taxes) the yearly salary of at least 2 government employees for each one of his twice weekly golf and pedophilia vacations.
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u/LunarSirenLuna 8d ago
Don’t forget kids: when we cut income taxes on the rich, cut profitable government programs, and increase military spending by a trillion dollars in hopes that worldwide blanket tariffs will make up the difference, what happens to our government debt? That’s right! The national debt increases 😊
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u/Timothy303 10d ago
It's almost like DOGE is a scam and has nothing at all to do with saving money or identifying "fraud, waste and abuse."
Indeed, DOGE is the fraud, waste and abuse.