03/17/2025
Dusty Lashbrook
Budget Deficit Crisis:
American businesses and conservative taxpayers are raising eyebrows as the U.S. budget deficit surpasses the alarming $1 trillion mark in February 2025. As government spending spins out of control, one wonders at what cost these fiscal decisions impact future generations. The U.S. budget deficit hit $307 billion in February, compared to the previous year. The federal receipts reached a new peak at $296 billion. Despite these record receipts, spending shot even higher, reaching an unprecedented $603 billion. A staggering $1.147 trillion deficit was accumulated over the first five months of the fiscal year, marking a 38% increase. With fiscal year-to-date receipts reaching $1.893 trillion and outlays growing to $3.039 trillion, the record surge in deficit figures emphasizes the growing gap fueled by high interest on public debt and increased social security payments.
The fiscal strain has grown, attributed to various factors including Medicare and Social Security expenses. Medicare spending alone increased by $124 billion, while Social Security outlays expanded by $49 billion. Rising costs of servicing government debt continue to weigh heavily on the budget, bringing us to a crossroad of economic instability. The US budget deficit continued to swell in February, pushing the shortfall to $1.15 trillion over the first five months of the fiscal year, with the increasing cost of Medicare and servicing government debt contributing to the widening, reports Yahoo Finance.
The Administration could see this coming and they moved to get out in front of this. Trump told us before he was elected that he was going to cut the size of the Federal Government and he was going to put Elon in charge of that effort.
Democrats have fought the Administration and the President at every turn. We have also seen certain Republicans push back on many of the cuts. These efforts are obviously cutting off their piggybank and their ability to get reelected and stay in office.
We Must Cut The Deficit:
We have NO choice but to cut the deficit and cut it quickly.
The main stream media would have you believe that they are cutting meals for under privileged children , cutting monies for life saving medicines for seniors, cutting monies for social security, cutting money for medicaid and cutting money for cancer research.
Please do NOT listen to the main stream media.
Do your own research and see where the DOGE savings are coming from.
Do your own research and see how we have been spending taxpayer dollars.
Do your own research and educate yourself on who got savings under the Trump tax cuts on the 1st Trump administration.
Do your research and understand what it mens to cut the trajectory of the growth of a budget item versus actually cutting the spending year over year.
America does not have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem and unless we reign it on NOW, we will lose our Country.
Yes, we will lose it through a collapsing dollar and sky high inflation……..
We cannot sit silent and let Washington spend us into oblivion…..
Dusty
