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  1. ๐Ÿ’ธ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ž๐›๐ญ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐‡๐ข๐ญ $39.2 ๐“๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž #๐๐ž๐›๐ญ #๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐๐ž๐›๐ญ #๐Ÿ๐ž๐๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐๐ž๐›๐ญ #๐Ÿ๐ž๐๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ญ

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  2. 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.

    #FederalDeficit #fiatMoney #deficitSpending #moneyIssuance #moneyCreation #monetaryTheory #quotes #deficit #CentralBank #CentralBanks #Treasury #MMT

  3. 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 countryโ€™s public finances.

    โ€œThe United States of America is never going to default, that is never going to happen,โ€ Bessent told CBSโ€™s Face the Nation on Sunday. โ€œWe are on the warning track and we will never hit the wall.โ€

    Investor jitters over the size of the US federal debt have mounted as President Donald Trump has urged Congress to push through his โ€œbig beautifulโ€ 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 โ€œcrackโ€ under the weight of the countryโ€™s rising debt."

    ft.com/content/9c652f09-cfca-4

    #USA #Trump #Debt #PublicDebt #FederalDeficit

  4. President Donald Trumpโ€™s tax and spending bill โ€œdoes not add to the deficit.โ€ โ€“ Politifact

    The East Front of the U.S. Capitol on May 19, 2025. (Louis Jacobson / PolitiFact)

    Karoline Leavitt said Donald Trumpโ€™s โ€˜big beautiful billโ€™ wonโ€™t add to the deficit. But it will.

    As House Republicans continued their efforts to advance what President Donald Trump calls his โ€œbig, beautiful billโ€ of tax and spending cuts, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt played down the billโ€™s expected federal deficit impact.

    At a May 19 press briefing, a reporter asked Leavitt, โ€œIs the president OK with this bill adding to the deficit?โ€

    Leavitt disagreed with the questionโ€™s premise. 

    โ€œThis bill does not add to the deficit,โ€ she said. โ€œIn fact, according to the Council of Economic Advisors, this bill will save $1.6 trillion. โ€ฆ Thereโ€™s $1.6 trillion worth of savings in this bill. Thatโ€™s the largest savings for any legislation that has ever passed Capitol Hill in our nationโ€™s history.โ€

    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. Thatโ€™s because the billโ€™s tax cuts would reduce incoming federal revenue by more than it restricts spending.

    Leavittโ€™s โ€œ$1.6 trillion worth of savingsโ€ appears to refer only to the billโ€™s proposed spending cuts  without factoring in the lost tax revenue that will increase the annual deficit and the federal governmentโ€™s cumulative debt, experts said.

    โ€œBottom line โ€” because that is what matters โ€” is that simple math of all the additions and subtractions equals nearly $3 trillion in additional debtโ€ 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 Trumpโ€™s tax and spending bill โ€œdoes not add to the deficit.โ€ โ€“ Politifact

    Source Links: PolitiFact | Karoline Leavitt said Donald Trumpโ€™s โ€˜big beautiful billโ€™ wonโ€™t add to the deficit. But it will.

    #2025 #America #Debt #DonaldTrump #FactCheck #FederalDeficit #History #Libraries #Politics #Politifact #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

  5. Can we go back to the days when we #shutdown military bases to lower the #FederalDeficit ? ๐Ÿ™

    Because Iโ€™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! ๐Ÿ‘‰ usatoday.com/story/news/politi