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Federal budget deficit expected to nearly double to around $2 trillion, government watchdog says
CNN ^ | 09.13.2023 | Tami Luhby

Posted on 09/13/2023 8:29:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

CNN — The federal budget deficit is expected to balloon to about $2 trillion for fiscal year 2023, roughly double what it was in the previous fiscal year, according to a government watchdog group.

The surge stems largely from a sharp decline in tax revenues, coupled with an increase in mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare and interest payments, as well as in other areas. It follows a sharp drop in the budget shortfall in fiscal year 2022 after two years of giant deficits swollen by record government spending on Covid-19 pandemic relief measures.

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I am surprised CNN would report this
1 posted on 09/13/2023 8:29:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“There is an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve”

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1635470213377323008


2 posted on 09/13/2023 8:37:16 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a modified limited hangout.

Probably to discourage anyone from getting any ideas about doing what Trump does.

If Deep State can’t keep Trump out of the WH, it may very well figure the next best thing is to leave him a wrecked, smoking hulk of a ship of state to deal with.

If so Deep State will count on three things to get what it wants should Trump become prez.

1) Deep State will still control SCOTUS and Congress.

2) It will still control state and local bureaucracies and institutions.

3) It will count on Americans to be unwilling to do what Trump will inevitably have to ask us to do to right our ship of state.

I hope to God we can disappoint Deep State on that last one.


3 posted on 09/13/2023 8:37:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

A fine forecast of what the “administrative state” is doing, feathering its own collective nest(s) through corruption at many levels.


4 posted on 09/13/2023 8:54:14 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: mewzilla

“If Deep State can’t keep Trump out of the WH, it may very well figure the next best thing is to leave him a wrecked, smoking hulk of a ship of state to deal with.”

************

They would only have to fend him off for four years, a relatively short time in DC. And the Deep State can always count on GOP obstruction to do it. Trump may return but it will be to even more political hostility.


5 posted on 09/13/2023 8:56:23 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Those in power do what’s best for them, not us.


6 posted on 09/13/2023 8:57:53 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The DC-deep-state-empire doesn’t have long before TSHTF


7 posted on 09/13/2023 8:58:28 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: packagingguy

And this is when they are claiming the economy is still growing.

Imagine when the next financial/debt crisis occurs. What will the deficit be then? Will all that debt get monetized?

We’ve already crossed the political rubicon, so add in 100% inflation and a financial collapse, and that’s when we become some version of Brazil 1964, Argentina 1976, Russia 1917


8 posted on 09/13/2023 9:05:03 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Starboard
--- "Those in power do what’s best for them, not us."

From tribes to feudal lords to all the interim politcal systems through to today, this is TOTALLY correct.

9 posted on 09/13/2023 9:14:05 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The surge stems largely from a sharp decline in tax revenues, coupled with an increase in mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare and interest payments, as well as in other areas.

Other areas like Ukraine and the Green New Deal otherwise known as the Inflation Reduction Act. The RINOs deserve some of the blame for helping the Dems pass these spending bills.

10 posted on 09/13/2023 9:18:57 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

The corollary to that is...those in power only tell us what they want us to know.


11 posted on 09/13/2023 9:21:18 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard
--- "The corollary to that is...those in power only tell us what they want us to know."

Agreed, again.

12 posted on 09/13/2023 9:24:29 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cloward-Piven in action...


13 posted on 09/13/2023 9:53:38 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

-— “Those in power do what’s best for them, not us.”

From tribes to feudal lords to all the interim politcal systems through to today, this is TOTALLY correct.


Absolutely True !

Every supposed “Democracy” and “Republic” is fake and disguised oligarchy.

The best we are going to do is have the incentives of the elites more or less aligned with the interests of the people they rule.

Right now, we are in the worst possible situaton because the Globohomo elites despise the Heritage populations of their own countries, and want to destroy them.


14 posted on 09/13/2023 10:34:58 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Yes, that’s sort of the whole point of power, isn’t it?


15 posted on 09/13/2023 11:02:45 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America is bankrupt. Thanks GOP and DemonicRats.


16 posted on 09/13/2023 2:36:24 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why the sharp decline in tax revenues? Biden keeps saying more people are employed.


17 posted on 09/13/2023 4:09:46 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: mewzilla

“If Deep State can’t keep Trump out of the WH, it may very well figure the next best thing is to leave him a wrecked, smoking hulk of a ship of state to deal with.”

Totally agree with your POV.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ebnoEWClpc8

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy celebrated the passage of a debt ceiling deal in the House of Representatives on Wednesday night and promised that Democratic Party support meant he could push for more Republican budget priorities.

The deal was necessary for the U.S. to avoid defaulting on its existing debt and likely further rocking the economy. It was passed without the support of some conservatives who opposed the bill for its compromises, but got the necessary vote of 52 Democrats to pass. McCarthy said the votes by Democrats proved they would support further Republican priorities including the defunding of new IRS agents, work requirements for those receiving government support and spending cuts.

“This is great. I think it’s wonderful that they voted for it. Because they are now on record. So they can’t sit there and yell ‘this isn’t good.’

So I’ll bring something back tomorrow. Let’s get the rest of the IRS agents. Let’s get the rest of the work requirements. Let’s cut more,” McCarthy said. “This is fabulous, this is one of the best nights I’ve ever been here. I thought it would be hard.” The bill now heads to the Senate, with passage expected by the end of the week.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ebnoEWClpc8


18 posted on 09/27/2023 5:21:34 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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