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Trump’s Attack on the Fed Won’t Fix the Deficit – Jessica Riedl – The Dispatch

Trump Can’t Fix the Deficit by Attacking the Federal Reserve

The president claims lower interest rates would save us $1 trillion annually. He’s wrong.

Jessica Riedl/September 23, 2025

President Trump has declared war on the prized independence of the Federal Reserve in an attempt to essentially run monetary policy out of the White House. He has attempted—illegally and on dubious grounds— to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, threatened to fire Chairman Jerome Powell, and installed a top White House economist into a key Federal Reserve position. This White House pressure surely drove the Fed’s decision to reduce rates by 0.25 points on September 17.

Going to war against the Federal Reserve seems baseless when current interest rates—while above the anomalous 2010s levels—are not high by historical standards. Moreover, rates are not holding back the current economy, and they may even be too low to combat the recent inflation uptick. However, President Trump has offered an additional argument: Lower interest rates would reduce Washington’s interest on the national debt, “saving us $1 Trillion per year” in reduced budget deficits. This sacrificing of Federal Reserve independence to help the Treasury sell cheaper debt is known to economists as “fiscal dominance.”

Setting aside legitimate concerns over central bank independence and the illegal firing of Fed officials, would fiscal dominance really provide substantial budget deficit savings? The clear answer is no.

Trump is correct that mounting interest costs threaten to bury the federal budget. The toxic combination of soaring debt and elevating interest rates has expanded what the government spends on interest annually from $352 billion in 2021 to nearly $1 trillion today—heading toward $2 trillion within the next decade. Interest costs are the second-biggest budget item after Social Security, having recently surpassed Medicaid, defense, and Medicare spending. Within a decade, nearly 30 percent of all annual taxes paid may go toward interest on the national debt. To put that in perspective, it amounts to nearly four months of annual federal tax revenue.

Yet instead of working with Congress on a deficit reduction plan, President Trump has chosen to increase deficits further with more tax cuts, and then try to force downward the interest rate on the federal debt.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump’s Attack on the Fed Won’t Fix the Deficit – Jessica Riedl – The Dispatch

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Government "deficit spending" is the nation-state creating money (out of thin air) and exchanging it.

The payroll tax (FICA) does not fund Social Security or Medicare. Like all other federal agencies, those agencies are funded by dollars created on purpose by the government (using laws from Congress) and placed in their accounts by the Treasury.

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The US bond market showed little reaction to President Trump's tax cut bill, signaling investor acceptance despite a projected $3.3 trillion deficit increase, as strong demand for Treasuries persists.
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https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=70766

Robust demand at US 30-year and 10-year Treasury auctions has eased concerns over federal deficit risks, sending yields lower across the curve.
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https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=67485

LoL - Where there's smoke, there's fire and we all know that for the foreseeable future the US will need to continue to buy lots of weapons to send for free to Israel :-D

"Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has insisted the US would never default on its debt as he sought to assuage Wall Street concerns over the state of the country’s public finances.

“The United States of America is never going to default, that is never going to happen,” Bessent told CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “We are on the warning track and we will never hit the wall.”

Investor jitters over the size of the US federal debt have mounted as President Donald Trump has urged Congress to push through his “big beautiful” budget bill, which is expected to ratchet up the federal deficit.

Bessent dismissed concerns raised by JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon on Friday that the US bond market would “crack” under the weight of the country’s rising debt."

https://www.ft.com/content/9c652f09-cfca-4078-9e2b-5fdacd772a75

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President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.” – Politifact

Karoline Leavitt said Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ won’t add to the deficit. But it will.

As House Republicans continued their efforts to advance what President Donald Trump calls his “big, beautiful bill” of tax and spending cuts, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt played down the bill’s expected federal deficit impact.

At a May 19 press briefing, a reporter asked Leavitt, “Is the president OK with this bill adding to the deficit?”

Leavitt disagreed with the question’s premise. 

“This bill does not add to the deficit,” she said. “In fact, according to the Council of Economic Advisors, this bill will save $1.6 trillion. … There’s $1.6 trillion worth of savings in this bill. That’s the largest savings for any legislation that has ever passed Capitol Hill in our nation’s history.”

A deficit is the annual amount by which spending exceeds revenues; the accumulation of all past annual deficits, minus any annual surpluses, is called the federal debt.

The bill is still being negotiated, so its potential deficit impact is a moving target. However, numerous independent analyses agree that the bill is on track to add significantly to the federal deficit. That’s because the bill’s tax cuts would reduce incoming federal revenue by more than it restricts spending.

Leavitt’s “$1.6 trillion worth of savings” appears to refer only to the bill’s proposed spending cuts  without factoring in the lost tax revenue that will increase the annual deficit and the federal government’s cumulative debt, experts said.

“Bottom line — because that is what matters — is that simple math of all the additions and subtractions equals nearly $3 trillion in additional debt” during the standard budget time frame of 10 years, said Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan group that tracks the federal budget.

The White House did not respond to inquiries for this article.

Read more: President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.” – Politifact

Source Links: PolitiFact | Karoline Leavitt said Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ won’t add to the deficit. But it will.

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Trump's tax cut plan narrowly passes US House with 215-214 vote, raising concerns over $3.8 trillion increase in federal deficit over next decade
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I enjoy listening to The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart most times, but this week's, with Sadiq Khan and then an economist talking about the US deficit, was very interesting, covering a lot of topics, but about the influence of social media was especially so...

Two places to access:
https://youtu.be/FbcxKiaBNPU
or
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gyyGZb4Ba9pTApLK46IHi

#JonStewart #TheWeeklyShow #Podcast #SocialMedia #FederalDeficit

@Wikipedia I have no idea what ‘incoming stitch’ means on #TikTok , but to follow up on the above toot let me use the #WayBackMachine to stitch together the #FederalDeficit , the ‘atomic deficit’, and #education in #chemistry at the ‘Master of the Atomic Domain’ level.

“Chemical Eye 👁️ on the Atomic Deficit” 👉 http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/040906_macdougall.html

Can we go back to the days when we #shutdown military bases to lower the #FederalDeficit ? 🙏

Because I’m sure tens of millions of Americans would celebrate the closure of BOTH the #AirForce (Elgin) and #Navy bases in #Pensacola , #Floriduh if voters in the #FL01 district send #PutinPuppet and indicted #SexOffender #MattGaetz back to Congress! 👉 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/27/government-shutdown-matt-gaetz-rising-amid-florida-governors-race-speculation/70982198007/

#NorthDakota Governor #DougBurgum is showing early signs of taking the #FederalDeficit bloating tendencies of #Republican presidents to levels even higher than seen when #DonaldTheDeplorable was #POTUS.

He is sending $20 gift cards to people who donate $1 to his campaign! 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-burgum-donor-threshold-gop-presidential-debate-gift-cards_n_64b8a415e4b038c60cc89b87

What would the US dollar be worth if this #StableGenius grew our annual deficit to $100 trillion?! 😂

#DumpTrump #FederalDeficit
#NothingToShowForIt #AmeeVanderpool