Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent about $220 billion more in first 100 days than last year
Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent about $220 billion more in first 100 days than last year
It’s the golfing. And the grifting, that too.
Edit: also, flights to deport citizens to gulags.
It's also that cutting doesn't necessarily lead to spending less. I can cut 50 dollars on lunch, but then I end up real hungry, get fired and can't resist a honey bun from the vending machine.
Its not even that.
It is throwing away your jacket because you don't want to go out for lunch in the middle of the day. And then realizing you still need that jacket to get to and from work and having to buy a new one. And THEN buying lunch anyway because you are hungry.
A few articles have done a great job of documenting it but it boils down to the problem being the fundamental argument of WHY they are doing this. Officially their stance is to move fast, break things, and then repair what they actually needed. Except those repairs cost a LOT of time and money.
And... to add on to the brutally beaten metaphor: It also costs money to get rid ofy our old jacket because you can't just throw it in the trash. You have to drive down to a good will to drop it off. Because government employees have PTO that needs to be paid out and so forth.
It is absolutely incredible that the only thing that outweighs their malice is their gross incompetence, which for better or worse may be our saving grace in undoing this mess
Trump: "They get PTO? Ignore that, it is better spent on visiting the Olympics." (Millions of dollars later, he leaves within 30 minutes of entering the stadium.) "So dull, those so-called foreign women throwing balls. Arrest them, they clearly are men in drag."
...As ever, my well of sarcasm has become dryer than a desert. You can throw just about anything malicious or stupid at the wall, and it would be a plausible scenario with this regime. :(
Any articles you'd recommend?
But what if you make a department of Honey Bun Efficiency? There is surely a simple solution for your fiscal crisis.
I mean we were deporting people at higher numbers than Trump has for as long as I know. Trump's just spending more money to deport less. Some might call it horrible money management skills.
And I’m sure he’s paying El Salvador, and for all these flights, and then for creating and distributing all of these propaganda videos and Kristi Noem tv commercials. Have to make a big spectacle about it. That’s not cheap.
he paying a specific airline, the one that exclusively deports people, not any of the commercial ones.