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Despite aggressive cost-cutting by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, federal spending has reportedly climbed by $154 billion since Donald Trump returned to office.

Government spending is significantly higher under Trump's second term compared to the same period in 2024 under Joe Biden, according to the analysis by the Wall Street Journal, citing the Treasury Department’s daily financial statements.

The increase—$154 billion—comes even as DOGE, led by Elon Musk, touts $150 billion in cost savings through job cuts, contract terminations, and the rollback of diversity and aid programs.

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[–] tarius@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thats a good chart, so during recessions and emergencies the spending increases dramatically, then goes back to a normal path progressively upwards.

[–] shottymcb@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, and for some reason those recessions and emergencies happen when morons are in charge. Who would've guessed?

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Did the democrats do anything about the housing bubble?

Heres the yays and nays for their voting to deregulate banks:

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/1999/roll570.xml

[–] shottymcb@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Just gonna steal this from someone else, but

Longer than that, I bet. This report from EPIAction doesn't specifically mention spending increases and decreases, but all other economic indicators have been better under Democrats than they have under Republicans for at least 75 years.

Since 1949, there has been a Democratic advantage in the average performance of key macroeconomic indicators measuring economic health, including:

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth

Job growth

Unemployment rate

Growth in inflation-adjusted wages

Growth of market-based incomes per capita

Inflation

Interest rates

The US economy has performed better when the president of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance…The superiority of economic performance under Democrats rather than Republicans is nearly ubiquitous: it holds almost regardless of how you define success. By many measures, the performance gap is startlingly large.

[–] keegomatic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That was a large cause of the GFC. I'm just saying its not as if democrats are much better, most aren't Bernie Sanders.