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Bad Moon Risen'
Appears DOGE savings goal for the year is being changed from $2 trillion down to $150 billion. While any savings is better than nothing it's a far cry from what anyone was hoping for.
 

Box Ox

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Appears DOGE savings goal for the year is being changed from $2 trillion down to $150 billion. While any savings is better than nothing it's a far cry from what anyone was hoping for.

So they’re 7.5% of the way there. Maybe our federal government isn’t as inefficient/wasteful as they thought.
 

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Bad Moon Risen'
So they’re 7.5% of the way there. Maybe our federal government isn’t as inefficient/wasteful as they thought.
Probably lose north of $30 billion of that savings on farmer bailouts. Add in the projected tax cuts and the deficit continues to climb. Kick the can down the road some more.
 

newfie

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Appears DOGE savings goal for the year is being changed from $2 trillion down to $150 billion. While any savings is better than nothing it's a far cry from what anyone was hoping for.
there is a two trillion dollar deficit. The goal was to eliminate a trillion of spending and then grow the economy enough to generate a trillion dollars of additional revenue.

the 150 billion seems a little low for this stage of the game. but I think Elon is about half way through his 130 day gig.
At the same time Elon is the figure head of this effort and trump is talking about keeping a lot of the doge team thats doing all the work in place well after Elon leaves so maybe its just taking longer now that they take the chainsaw away.

Trump says he's presently taking in 2 billion a day from tariff revenue before all the big tariffs with china and others kicks in. thats approximately 750 billion so the revenue number at least appears to be lining up.
 
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El Correcto

god is dead
You're the one not keeping up. I look at it half a dozen times a day. It was either Tuesday or Wednesday that Trump put a hold on the tariffs and the NYSE exploded up over 2900 pts.
Yeah but isn’t up 2900 points from its original value before the tariffs. It’s still down.
 

BadIdeaGuy

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I've lost the context of the argument and have not seen any updates. Are we still at sent the guy to the wrong country or is there more to it?
He’s an illegal, and he shouldn’t be here.

But he needs to be brought back and given the due process required by law.

I’d also say this is a good reason not to use prisons outside our jurisdiction.

I don’t know why the right wing thinks that following the law here is the wrong course of action. Dude is still going to end up getting deported.
 
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