They raised the debt limit by $4,000,000,000,000 ($4T) in May of 2025 and are already out of money, and so we're at "shutdown showdown" again.
How should the tariff revenue be spent to help the United States?
They raised the debt limit by $4,000,000,000,000 ($4T) in May of 2025 and are already out of money, and so we're at "shutdown showdown" again.
How should the tariff revenue be spent to help the United States?
$1T deficit per month is not sustainable.
US still is spending more than it brings in right?
It seems if the goal for to decrease spending, we shouldn’t need to raise the debt limit. And revenue from tariff’s should be used to accelerate paying down the debt.
I know everyone seems to not care about that anymore and moved on, but I haven’t.
Servicing the debt is the biggest expense in the budget. If we don’t get it under control it will be the whole budget. If we can eliminate that debt, then we’ll have all kinds of money for other things.
-$4T/4mo = -$1T/mo
-4,000,000,000,000
+ +0,190,000,000,000
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-3,710,000,000,000
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