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| Trump's $4 trillion deficit bomb
|
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
|
| He then spent the next hour urging Republicans to unite
| behind the most budget-busting legislation in modern U.S.
| history.
| ...
<https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/trump-tax-cuts-budget-deficit-debt>
--bks
|
| Trump's $4 trillion deficit bomb
|
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
|
| He then spent the next hour urging Republicans to unite
| behind the most budget-busting legislation in modern U.S.
| history.
| ...
<https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/trump-tax-cuts-budget-deficit-debt>
--bks
| Trump's $4 trillion deficit bomb
|
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| Trump's $4 trillion deficit bomb
|
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| ...
| "I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill,
| frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just
| decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is
| doing," Musk said.
|
| Musk's comments appear to put him at odds with Mr. Trump,
| who has championed the massive spending package.
| ...
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-disappointed-by-trump-big-beautiful-bill-doge/>
--bks
On Wed, 28 May 2025 10:29:52 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
| Trump's $4 trillion deficit bomb
|
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| ...
| "I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill,
| frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just
| decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is
| doing," Musk said.
|
| Musk's comments appear to put him at odds with Mr. Trump,
| who has championed the massive spending package.
| ... >><https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-disappointed-by-trump-big-beautiful-bill-doge/>
--bks
What does this have to do with the title of the thread?
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
|
| Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break Republican Precedent
|
| A proposed $5 trillion debt limit increase could make it
| hard for Republicans to maintain their fiscal hawk
| credibility.
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/business/national-debt-limit-republ icans.html>
--bks
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest
| "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| In passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last week, GOP
| leaders blew past a host of warnings to potentially add
| several trillion dollars of additional borrowing --
| brushing off concerns that they were missing a late
| opportunity to put the nation on a more sustainable fiscal
| trajectory in favor of piling on expensive new tax cuts.
|
| The whole episode was a stark display of how short-term
| rewards and Trump's demands outweighed any anxieties about
| long-term calamity -- even from a constituency as powerful
| as Wall Street, whose major players are reliable financiers
| for politicians of both parties.
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/wall-street-debt-warnings-megabill-00443084>
Bradley K. Sherman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
| President Trump yesterday declared himself the biggest >>>>>>>>>>> | "fiscal hawk" in Washington.
| In passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last week, GOP
| leaders blew past a host of warnings to potentially add
| several trillion dollars of additional borrowing --
| brushing off concerns that they were missing a late
| opportunity to put the nation on a more sustainable fiscal
| trajectory in favor of piling on expensive new tax cuts.
|
| The whole episode was a stark display of how short-term
| rewards and Trump's demands outweighed any anxieties about
| long-term calamity -- even from a constituency as powerful
| as Wall Street, whose major players are reliable financiers
| for politicians of both parties.
The above shows how they have classic cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/wall-street-debt-warnings-megabill-00443084>
Imagine being so beholden to and afraid of a doddering demented old man.
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