{"article":{"id":297244,"heading":"22 Ways Trump Has Increased US Deficit By 4 to 5 Trillion Dollars","author":"First Do No Harm","created":"2018-10-12 22:34:52","modified":"2019-12-06 09:29:38","last_modified":"Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:29:38","article":"
The Trump regime under the guise of cutting government costs has increased them. Between 4 and 5 trillion dollars in costs have been added to the deficit enriching Chinese, Swiss, Japanese, British Israeli and American banksters.
Trump Deficit and other costs*
a, 2.3 trillion added to deficit for govt welfare to the rich and to corporations
b. 1.5 trillion for increased arms purchases
c. Hundreds of billions to continues with wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen,
Syria, Somalia etc.The MOAB bomb alone with its devastating environmental impact dropped by General Nicholson
cost 16 million dollars.
d. The war glorifying and egotistical military parade is estimated to cost 92 million dollars, 80 million more than original estimates. These 92 millon dollars will not feed the hungry, clothe the poor, give homes to the homeless, provide healing to the sick, education to the young etc.
e. The increased costs of ICE and expanded border guards
f. Billions in court costs for countless thousands of arrested immigrants
g. Billions in costs of imprisoning kidnapped children in some places and their parents elsewhere
h. $137,000 already in Oct of 2017 the Secret Service is forced to pay to Trump golf courses for the cost of renting golf carts with which to protect him. Estimates are it is now over a quarter million
$$.
i.Trump demands 2.4 million in rent for the room in Trump Tower from which they operate when he is there.
j. Trump has cost more Secret Service
than any other president. When he goes to Florida..it is not just Secret Service and local police but the Coast Guard which are required to protect him.
k. Trump's sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, and Russia, nations with more socialist programs and less loanshark capitalist domination have
caused Americans to pay much more at the gas tank. Increasing gas prices raises prices for much of the economy.
l. Trump's tariff program directed at Mexico, Canada, China, Europe are hurting US businesses and decreasing
tax revenue.
m. As Trump's tariffs prove disastrous and animal flesh surpluses, several billion pounds worth, accumulate, Trump & the USDA have proposed 12 billion dollars in subsidies to pig and cow murderers whose product causes animal agony, human diseases, global warming, energy waste, deforestation. These subsidies have been called 'golden crutches'. Farmers say they want trade, not aid, access to markets, not pacifiers, not trampling by Trump.
n. Trump asked for 25 billion, then 18 billion for a wall along the Mexican border whose building harms business and the environment. He has been given a portion of that amount.
o. For the first time in US history, money is being spent on Secret Service protection for Trump's press secretary who like his UN ambassador is willing to promote violent and thieving programs on his behalf.
p. Trump is working to desecrate space with weapons with an absurdly expensive program called Space Force
q. Trump is helping prison privateers further increase the debt by keeping nonviolent marijuana users and other nonviolent prisoners in jail
r. US Forestry Svc destroying marijuana plants in national forests.
s. Trump has increased the animal torture budget of NIH by several billion dollars, while denying genuine
health care to tens of millions of Americans.
t. Hurricanes Michael, Florence etc. will cost over 10 billion. Trump's pro coal profossil fuels and EPA actions have further
heated the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic causing fiercer storms.
u. Trump's antienvironment, treekilling, animal killing wall proposal would cost hundreds of billions.
v. Tens of millions in Secret Service costs to protect the trophy hunter Trump sons...as they hunt in Iowa, Montana etc.
https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/08\/27\/trade-wars-u-s-farmers-get-first-4-7-billion-relief\/1114709002\/<\/a>
https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/24\/us\/politics\/farmers-aid-trade-war.html<\/a>
https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/02\/28\/tax-cuts-trump-gop-analysis-430781<\/a>
Trump on pace to surpass 8 years of Obama's travel spending in 1 year
https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/10\/politics\/donald-trump-obama...costs\/index.html<\/a>
http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/362489-secret-service-has-spent-nearly-150k-on-golf-cart-rentals-since-trump<\/a>
Trump's Military Parade Could Cost $30 Million - The New York Times
https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/...\/trumps-military-parade-could-cost-30<\/a>
http:\/\/time.com\/4739302\/mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan-what-is-that\/<\/a>
http:\/\/time.com\/5210780\/congress-omnibus-border-security-wall-donald-trump\/<\/a>
Trump's military parade, an example of Trump's desire to glorify war, is now estimated to cost not 32 illion but 90 or more million
https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/16\/trump-military-parade-expected-to-cost-80-million-more-than-estimated.html<\/a>
https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/government-paying-trump-tower-presidential-protection-638852<\/a>
https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2017\/10\/05\/secre<\/a>...
\n","contact":"","link":"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/government-paying-trump-tower-presidential-protection-638852","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Despite cutting money for the health of hundreds of millions of Americans, education, bridges, mass transit,\r\nenvironmental enforcement, etc Trump has added trillions to the deficit.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2018\/10\/297244.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":297847,"heading":"As budget deficit balloons, few in Washington seem to care","article":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Donald Trump\u2019s watch and few in Washington seem to care.\r\n\r\nAnd even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared, replaced by bitter partisanship and chronic dysfunction.\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s the reality that will greet Trump\u2019s latest budget , which will promptly be shelved after landing with a thud on Monday. Like previous spending blueprints, Trump\u2019s plan for the 2020 budget year will propose cuts to many domestic programs favored by lawmakers in both parties but leave alone politically popular retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.\r\n\r\n\r\nWashington probably will devote months to wrestling over erasing the last remnants of a failed 2011 budget deal that would otherwise cut core Pentagon operations by $71 billion and domestic agencies and foreign aid by $55 billion. Top lawmakers are pushing for a reprise of three prior deals to use spending cuts or new revenues and prop up additional spending rather than defray deficits that are again approaching $1 trillion.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s put deficit hawks in a gloomy mood.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe president doesn\u2019t care. The leadership of the Democratic Party doesn\u2019t care,\u201d said former Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. \u201cAnd social media is in stampede mode.\u201d\r\n\r\nTrump\u2019s budget arrives as the latest Treasury Department figures show a 77 percent spike in the deficit over the first four months of the budget year, driven by falling revenues and steady growth in spending.\r\n\r\nTrump\u2019s 2017 tax cut bears much of the blame, along with sharp increases in spending for both the Pentagon and domestic agencies and the growing federal retirement costs of the baby boom generation. Promises that the tax cut would stir so much economic growth that it would mostly pay for itself have been proved woefully wrong.\r\n\r\nTrump\u2019s upcoming budget, however, won\u2019t address any of the main factors behind the growing, intractable deficits that have driven the U.S. debt above $22 trillion. Its most striking proposed cuts \u2014 to domestic agency operations \u2014 were rejected when tea party Republicans controlled the House, and they face equally grim prospects now that Democrats are in the majority.\r\n\r\nTrump has given no indication he\u2019s much interested in the deficit and he\u2019s rejected any idea of curbing Medicare or Social Security, the massive federal retirement programs whose imbalances are the chief deficit drivers.\r\n\r\n\r\nAn administration official said Friday that the president\u2019s plan promises to balance the budget in 15 years. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss specifics about the budget before the document\u2019s official release and spoke on condition of anonymity\r\nhttps:\/\/robert-ross-holmes-wilton-manors.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/beware-of-robert-holmes-of-wilton.html\r\nDemocrats have witnessed the retirement of a generation of lawmakers who came up in the 1980s and 1990s and negotiated deficit-cutting deals in 1990 and 1993. But those agreements came at significant political cost to both President George H.W. Bush, who lost re-election, and President Bill Clinton, whose party lost control of Congress in 1995.\r\n\r\nBut the moderate wing of the Democratic Party has withered with the electoral wipeout of \u201cBlue Dog\u201d Democrats at the hands of tea party forces over recent election cycles.\r\n\r\n\u201cConcern about the deficit is so woefully out of fashion that it\u2019s hard to even imagine it coming back into fashion,\u201d said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., one of his party\u2019s few remaining deficit hawks. \u201cThis is as out of fashion as bell bottoms.\u201d\r\n\r\nWhile in charge of the House, Republicans used to generate nonbinding budget blueprints that promised to balance the federal ledger by relying on a controversial plan to eventually transform Medicare into a voucher-like program. But they never pursued follow-up legislation that would actually do it.\r\n\r\nRepublicans, who seized Congress more than two decades ago promising and ultimately achieving balanced budgets during the Clinton administration, have instead focused on two major rounds of tax cuts during the Trump era and the administration of President George W. Bush in 2001.\r\n\r\nNor are Republicans willing to consider tough deficit-cutting steps such as higher taxes or Pentagon budget cuts. Leading Democratic presidential contenders talk of \u201cMedicare for All\u201d and increasing Social Security benefits instead of curbing them.\r\n\r\n\u201cYou have to get pretty damn serious about revenue as well as defense spending, and those are two things the Republicans don\u2019t want to bring into the conversation,\u201d said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. \u201cMy Democratic friends who talk about expansion of benefits. I\u2019ve told them to \u2018get real.\u2019\u201d\r\n\r\nTrump has never gone to the mat for his plan to slash domestic spending such as renewable energy programs.\r\n\r\n\u201cIf Trump can be criticized I think the perception has been that he has not fought for the spending cuts that he\u2019s proposed,\u201d said former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. \u201cThere\u2019s no upside to trying to cut anything. There\u2019s no political reward. But if you cut something there\u2019s a lot of political downside.\u201d\r\nhttps:\/\/robert-ross-holmes-wilton-manors.blogspot.com\r\nNeither is there any reservoir of the political will and bipartisan trust required to take the political heat for the tough steps it would take to rein in deficits. And it\u2019s not like voters are clamoring for action.\r\n\r\n\u201cThere\u2019s been very little dialogue in the last several years about debt and deficit and how to really be able to address it,\u201d said Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. \u201cIt just never came up\u201d in the 2016 election. \u201cIt still doesn\u2019t come up.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe deficit registered $714 billion during Trump\u2019s first year in office but is projected to hit about $900 billion this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which says Trump\u2019s tax cut will add $1.5 trillion to the deficit over 10 years.\r\n\r\n\u201cOne of the short-term goals should be \u2014 I know it\u2019s not a lofty goal \u2014 stopping things from getting a lot worse. It\u2019s something the Republicans obviously were unable to do. That\u2019s a low bar, but they couldn\u2019t meet a low bar,\u201d said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.\r\n\r\n___\r\n\r\nAP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.","author":"AP","parent_id":297244,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2019-03-10 17:28:44","modified":"2019-03-10 17:28:44","fileurl":""},{"id":298621,"heading":"cutting","article":"iz the only way forward - plus taxing twealth","author":"the cuts","parent_id":297244,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2019-12-06 09:29:38","modified":"2019-12-06 09:29:38","fileurl":""}]}