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The Congressional Budget Office's own ledger shows a $1.775 trillion deficit in

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FY2025 — a number that rarely appears in the same breath as the party's tax-cut

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rhetoric.

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Together these receipts show a unit that touts massive savings while its actual

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contract cuts are modest, its savings claims are disputed, and its operations remain

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opaque.

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These examples illustrate a pattern: the federal government steps in as an equity

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holder during crises — first banks after 2008, now critical-minerals firms to shore

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up supply chains.

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The CBO reports FY2025 outlays of $7.010 trillion and a deficit of $1.775 trillion,

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with FY2026 projected outlays of $7.449 trillion and a deficit of $1.853 trillion —

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debt held by the public reaching 100.6 percent of GDP.

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Here the administration frames tariffs as a source of direct citizen payouts and

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equity-stake investments — an industrial-policy twist that blends revenue generation

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with a universal benefit.

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These counters argue that the observed interventions are temporary and economically

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justified, but warn that conflating them with socialism obscures the genuine fiscal

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challenge of rising debt.

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If you care about honest accounting, check the CBO's raw data on GitHub and the

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Treasury's TARP page yourself — see the numbers, compare them to the rhetoric, and

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decide whether the fiscal path matches the party's promises.

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