I’m reading here and there that the US took in about 3.3 trillion in all revenue in 2016.
They spent about 3.8 trillion.
The deficit was a half trillion, 500 billion, so that was about what was borrowed.
That’s less than 15% last year of expenditures
Cut 500 billion in spending and why does there need to be a debt increase?
Someone explain why the government must shut down if you decide not to spend as much?
That was what Carson said was missing at HUD. No outrage over that either. The Government is a Criminal enterprise.
The chart shows Obama shifted 500 billion from defense to the HHS budget.
My understanding is that this is not a debt ceiling increase vote but an actual budget, which needs to be approved in order for the Feds to be authorized to spend money.
The way around that is to pass a continuing Resolution in order to stay open, but Trump doesn’t play that game.