We’re about to find out if the “deficit hawks” mean what they say. Because the only way to reconcile massive Trump tax cuts with their stated main priority is to either cut spending enough to crush swing district Rs in 2026, or accept Johnson’s phony numbers on DOGE & tariffs. - ThreadSky

ronfilipkowski.bsky.social • 6 hours ago

We’re about to find out if the “deficit hawks” mean what they say. Because the only way to reconcile massive Trump tax cuts with their stated main priority is to either cut spending enough to crush swing district Rs in 2026, or accept Johnson’s phony numbers on DOGE & tariffs.

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centristsisyphus.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Tariffs are the magic beans Trump and the Repubs will promise will pay for everything.

patek-svendsen.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Tariffs cost jobs and tax revenue because people stop buying. I'm not making this up.

gustavo64.bsky.social•5 hours ago

There might be one or two who actually believe it, but 99% just want lower taxes for the rich.

pcanusroi.bsky.social•5 hours ago

That’s easy. There is a long history of Congressional majorities accepting bogus numbers that benefit their preferred political narratives. This may be the one time they’ll honor precedent.

sereneskye.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I think we all know they are going with option 2.

mattallison.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They will absolutely lie about how much Doge saved. 100%.

There is no doubt about this.

fsumogle.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Of course not. Their real goal is to destroy the government. Well on their way. The deficit was only an excuse to cut goverment programs and regulation they didn’t like. The hawks were never real, except maybe Rand Paul. He is just a weird kind of crazy.

ctrk2001.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I saw a video of him today and I couldn't even watch all of it. I thought he had grown some brain cells talking about the budget proposal but then started parroting all the debunked facts about USAID. He is still a rotten republican and am sad to say he is from my state (no vote from me).

patek-svendsen.bsky.social•5 hours ago

There isn't enough spending to cut to cover the tax cuts. All they are going to do is raise unemployment, expose us to costly catastrophic public health and natural disasters and reduce tax revenue. Oh, and robb everything that isn't nailed down.

trueindependent.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Betting 10k on the latter.

roachmotel6.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They are screwed because Elon will help primary them. Trump will tell his psycho violent minions to go after them. So they will obey their bosses.

idahobob.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Oh they found the money

https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lixburq4js2i

tchallaforever.bsky.social•5 hours ago

The Republican Party ⤵︎

fractegrity.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The hypocrisy will be on full display.

alisacapone.bsky.social•6 hours ago

chuck-e-jesus.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Ron, booby, we never rely on Republicans to do the right thing. Never ever.

bananapantz.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Did they add tariffs to the budget?

puckmama.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Don’t hold your breath Ron,.

tilia-connoissuer.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Congressional Rs be like

neetiebeauty.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Zero Day, Robert De Nero, Netflix - watch!

dajody10.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Or they have no intention of having a free & fair election in 2026, with DOGE ‘managing’ all elections moving forward, so crushing swing district voters doesn’t actually play a role in their dictatorship playbook?

mitza4u.bsky.social•22 minutes ago

Look at the mess he's made already, and it's only been a month god help us.

silvermaple91.bsky.social•5 hours ago

We know they don't mean it. They have increased the deficit literally every time they've had full control of the government.

wahwahbass.bsky.social•55 minutes ago

They’re going for the phony numbers
Which will still unravel their future plans

pauldu.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Run up the deficit by $7.8T, just like his first term

ludomuffin2.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The party of fiscal responsibility is also the party whose supporters can’t read above a 6th grade level. I’m betting on the latter.

professorquadri.bsky.social•6 hours ago

We can count on them to do the wrong thing, or the least right thing. They are in thrall of Donald, terrified of MAGA (or are part of it) and won’t cross him.

brahmavihara.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Smart money is on cooking the books.

psychonautic.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Putin secretly sold 100 tons of gold and they are going to Fort Knox?

https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1893875061016178806

chucky-dub.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Spoiler alert

terry-scott.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Ron, you and I both know they'll vote for the tax cuts and add trillions to the debt just like they did during Drumpf's first term.

The rich will get their tax savings and the rest of us will get nothing except the bill and the interest payments.

"deficit hawks"
more like...
- "schmeficit hawks"

cemeteryclerk.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They do a graduated tax decrease so it doesn’t add to the deficit until
Dems get in office again in 4 years then dems wrecked the economy again.
I think I’m seeing a pattern here…….

terry-scott.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Washington, D.C.— In almost every measure of the economy, economic performance is stronger under Democrats than Republicans, according to a new report released by the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Democrats. Of the 11 recessions in the modern era, 10 have begun under Republican presidents.
10/8/24

terry-scott.bsky.social•2 hours ago

The Dems fix the economy every time after the Republicans burn it down and dig a hole.
Fixed it after Bush.
*Mortgage crash*
Fixed it after Trump.
*Pandemic crash*

The economy is always better when the Democrats are in power.

Oh...and we'll have to fix it again after 47.

petiteouiseau.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Total schmucks. You do know that schmuck translates to "penishead"

fuzzypissykitty.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Chip doesn’t look like a real mathy type of person. I think he can be distracted by the shiny. ✨The Freedom Caucus will be talked at one by one until those tax cuts are over the finish line. It was 1/2 of the ultimate goal.

chando52.bsky.social•5 hours ago

A simple way of explaining why what Trump & Musk are doing to reduce the US national debt doesn’t add up. This by an Australian public broadcaster that so far has escaped being shut down or dismantled in the same way that DOGE is attempting to do to media in the USA.

https://youtu.be/lG9pxvpGY-Q

nc70.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Weeeeell, if Dutton gets in, who knows. He does like to copy the U.S. Right's talking points

jacobidumm.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Good news...we dont have to wait. They don't mean it at all! At least not while the red team is in the white house.

unhip1.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Not to mention the trillions in spending in tandem.

curtismilam.bsky.social•6 hours ago

CBO has to score this…you know…Ron?

trueblue2024.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Hasn’t DOGE annihilated CBO yet?

qua12.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The so-called deficit hawks only complain when Democrats are in power👍

pacifcmigrant.bsky.social•56 minutes ago

Are we making book on this? I’ll take 3/1 on the phony numbers. It fits perfectly with their usual modus operandi.

ernanney.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Is the CBO scoring these things anymore or nah?

blue-co-tim.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Didn’t truMusk say that there will be lies

But that they’ll correct those ASAP

aka 2027

robynne-limoges.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Anything else or less or modified from NO will be a betrayal.

rhodyrebel.bsky.social•25 minutes ago

The latter will prevail.

mzmiamaria.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Send a message to your member of Congress and tell them to protect our communities and save Medicaid now. 💙🇺🇲💪🏻🫱🏻‍🫲🏽💙
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/congress-save-medicaid-now

bigderriere.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Tough choice. We the people or leon’s billions and a primary.

lizajune.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They’ll always pick delulu when it comes to justifying Trumps idiotic ideas.

john-sup.bsky.social•6 hours ago

...deficit hawks? More like deficit house wrens. Birdbrains yes, hawks no.

musk-family-ftms.bsky.social•39 minutes ago

The wealth class want to rob the US Treasury.

tomstpatrick.bsky.social•6 hours ago

All Rs are terrified of Trump and his followers. It is how a mob boss rules. Same with Jeff Bezos and Amazon employees.

republicofone.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Thy will all say with a straight face that they believe the level of "fraud" has been found and have factored it all into the budget. A joke and they need to be called out on this before it happens.

frankiefrank.bsky.social•5 hours ago

lhuggs.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I can actually pretend (now and then) you're just calling balls and strikes in a sport... and not describing WHICH way the economy will collapse.

j-lastcoolletter.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Phony $. Every time it's "we have to grow our way out of the debt".

sharpstephanie.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Is anyone actually saying they’re deficit hawks tho. Not seeing it in the talking points. They don’t even bother with policy anymore.

wdmunn.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Lmmfao. We are “about” to find out. Where the actual fuck do you live? We already know the ending to this “cliff hanger.”

altscience.bsky.social•6 hours ago

But if the latter, they'll be dealing with an exploding deficit (OK, even MORE exploding) for the next several years.

bsrabin.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They DON'T mean it! If they cared about the debt, they wouldn't have fired thousands of IRS agents, especially the ones who audit wealthy taxpayers, who have more complicated returns & are more likely to be hiding income or taking questionable deductions. Totally phony!

jimsdouglas.bsky.social•6 hours ago

If they go all in on tariffs, they’re going to lie through their teeth and claim Canadians and Mexicans are paying the tariffs, when the reality is that tariffs are import taxes paid by American consumers. Democrats need to hammer that point.

apartment5b.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Oh, they'll figure that out on their own quite fast when prices skyrocket.

alocolbeck.bsky.social•6 hours ago

You’re putting a lot of confidence into MAGAts ability to connect the dots.

apartment5b.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Not them. The indies that switch back n forth and the Nikki haley types. They'll know who done it!

rjc1084.bsky.social•6 hours ago

In the DOGE world, billions are trillions!

freeradical7.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I think we determined this fairly early on during Trump's first term.

cg13.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Beware! The cruel and corrupt Republicans in Congress are attempting to decimate and destroy Medicaid, the ACA, social programs and the economic safety net in order to give massive tax cuts to the selfish wealthy and greedy corporations. Shameful and vile! They must be stopped!

persisted2020.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They will all fall in line like good MAGA cultists

bluespecinredland.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Or steal from Fort Knox.

psychonautic.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Depositing more likely, to claim DOGE have found 100 tons of extra gold, like a magic trick.

Putin secretly sold 100 tons of gold.

https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1893875061016178806

spacemonkeygleek.bsky.social•4 hours ago

alwaysmarycoogan.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Hubris
the belief that you are above the common man
In
Greek mythology the punishment is your destruction in the most humiliating ways possible

quahogsunited.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Weirdly enough, Massie seems to be out in front.

cathiquilts.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This will be interesting since R’s are getting a lot of crap from their constituents

ordeadhead.bsky.social•6 hours ago

They don't actually care, Ron.

xavkoenig.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Johnson can lie on TV about doge savings, but budget analysis and hard cash don’t lie. DOGE has saved a tiny pittance, and many workers will return work while canceled contracts get reinstated. Will voters stand for a massive gut punch to fund tax cuts for the wealthy?

mtvee.bsky.social•6 hours ago

There won’t be any 2026 sir, the moment is now

davidonstrike.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It’ll be the latter, no doubt.

richardcarkeek.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Oh! You know they are already ginned up to lie using Johnson DOGE imaginary numbers to secure their beloved tax cuts, while shredding our security and future.

trueblue2024.bsky.social•6 hours ago

If we hammer the facts loudly and consistently about the billionaire tax cuts and the deficit, I would hope at least a chunk of middle class MAGA will come around. Certainly they are not all that stupid.

patek-svendsen.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Yes they are.

richardcarkeek.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It's sadly not stupidity. Stupid has an easy fix. No, I think humans are so thirsty to belong; too often we'll readily don grotesque beliefs.

scuz1.bsky.social•6 hours ago

In the short term they get their tax cuts for the rich. That’s all they care about.

barronwtramp.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Deficit Hawks?
Lol.
All MAGA are liars.

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