it US The May. The government hit monthly billion. in more $316 received 185% than deficit spent

*85% more than it received, or 185% of what it received

Gm. The attempt to cut the fiscal deficit was largely performative. The 2024 GOP platform explicitly said they wouldn’t cut Social Security or Medicare. They also said they wanted to modernize the military, so that makes cuts there unlikely (and every Congress person will fight for DoD pork in their district). Veterans benefits are not easy to cut (should have thought of that before sending so many of them abroad for frivolous reasons; now we owe them). High interest expense is the result of accumulated debt. Those are the big spending areas. All hard to cut. That leaves the little areas. The small slices on the pie chart. Those areas were where DOGE was digging around in when the Big Beautiful Bill came and began slowly running them over. Even before the bill, federal spending has been higher here in the first half of 2025 than the first half of 2024. Nothing stops this train. Most of the debates are just about whether to toggle it 10% faster or slower, basically. View quoted note →

We need a PDF extension now :)

Would be great if it was on scale, but it's not.

But muh guy said he’d cut spending!

Why not just raise taxes and keep spending flat? Can they not even pull that off??

Still crazy for a goverment, that promises to lower depts and where the department of efficiency has already "done its work"

Yes, definitely still crazy! At the beginning of this year I thought DOGE might actually have a chance to save us from the looming debt event horizon. But at this point I think it’s pretty safe to say there’s no turning back.

It's OK, we can just declare an emergency!

Please include the giant blob on the left hand side that fades into infinity labeled “print moar money”, cuz who cares about having a budget when #moneyprintergobrrr

Me too 😎

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DOGE… a mirage for the media? Probably. Money printer when…? View quoted note →

Balancing the books was never the plan. Debasement is a good business, and there’s nothing like business as usual

Business as usual, more debt Stack sats and preserve your time and energy 🤙 View quoted note →

I feel like they should’ve made the orange strip account for more of the bar than it does, for visual effect I mean. Social Insurance and Retirement looks so large of income, but it should be roughly the same size as the Medicare spending bar, and the deficit (over double size of these) should be massive instead of just tagged onto the bottom. So really, its even worse than that looks!

Why don’t the line thicknesses match the numbers?

#chartcrimes