Despite vowing to make government more “efficient,” Donald Trump’s new administration has made it less effective and more expensive in countless ways.
Worse still, with his One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump has ushered in tax policies that are projected to drive up the nation’s ever-climbing debt. The total amount that Trump has ballooned the debt is unclear, although most estimates put it in the trillions. In his first term, Trump oversaw a deficit spike of nearly $8 trillion, according to one analysis, and some project that an additional $3.4 trillion has been added by the recent bill.
With that in mind, I guess it’s as good a time as any to remind everybody that there’s actually a…