By Sidney Secular
September 9, 2025
When Elon Musk was brought aboard to bolster DOGE, in an effort directed towards the mammoth task of cutting mountains of Government waste, his stated, probably overstated, ambition was to cut GovMint spending by one trillion dollars by the end of Fiscal Year 2025 (September 30, 2025). As of this writing, the DOGE seems to be dodging its said ambitious goal and has saved the taxpayers only an estimated $190 billion in reduced spending. Now that Musk has departed, with no one of note replacing him, it’s sort of back to the old wasteful ways, at least with no new big cuts making any headlines.
The relatively small level of cuts that were applied, were done so in a rather haphazard way, a matter that caused more outrage and resistance than there might otherwise have been though one cannot imagine most members of the Guvmint accepting a reduction in the size of the trough at which they feed!
As in the first Trump administration, there were some arbitrary cuts to long-standing environmental programs that were accomplishing some of their goals and were hacked merely because they were low hanging fruit and easy to eliminate without upsetting the corporate big boys. I know in my particular geographic area, some conservation programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed area that were small potatoes in the overall scheme of things, were seemingly unnecessarily cut , a matter that caused wide consternation. Musk justifiably raised opposition to the bloated One Big Beautiful Bill abomination that is further leaving us in the debt hole, which Musk felt was undoing what he had stared to do.
Only the most avid public servant, big spender, or indeed, cost cutter would have had the patience to read the Big Beautiful Bill or care about all of its contents – but then, that is nothing new as bills having literally thousands of pages are put before Congress and expected to be voted on within hours! The showoff Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer had it read aloud by Senate clerks, hoping to cast aspersions upon it, that took 15 hours and 55 minutes to do. He unsuccessfully tried to embarrass those who show no shame.
The few sweeteners in the Big Bill are akin to a band aid applied to the titanic $150 billion increase in defense spending, sort of like the band on the Titanic playing gaily while the ship of state is sinking. This increase includes $25 billion for the questionable Golden Dome missile defense system which some experts claim is already outmoded before it is even begun. A CNN survey supposedly says that over half of Americans oppose the Big Beautiful Bill because it will cost 3.4 trillion dollars over the next decade. That cost will actually surpass $4 trillion over the next decade if the festering interest payments on the national debt are figured in.
The rise in the national debt over the last 2 decades has been staggering. In 2003, before the Iraq war, the debt was $6.5 trillion. By the time the “Great Recession” began in 2008, the debt had risen to $10.1 trillion. By the time Trump took over the White House for the first time, the debt had more than doubled to $20.5 trillion. The debt now exceeds $36 trillion and continues to mushroom despite Washington’s mush about controlling spending.
The interest costs on the debt are expanding faster than the increases in defense spending and were $1.1 trillion in 2024. The budget threat here is that money being spent on interest payments will no longer be available for other priorities such as defense, national security, infrastructure, or assistance to the elderly and veterans. If taking on more massive debt continues, a national bankruptcy will inevitably result. When we hear terms like billions and trillions tossed around casually, we become desensitized to their true meaning and consequences. Remarkably, if you collected all the US currency currently in circulation, it would only total $2.4 trillion. At the current pace, the national debt grows by $55,000 per second.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the national debt will reach $138 trillion by 2055 unless there is a momentous change in policy. CBO routinely underestimate their projections. If the US ever defaulted on its debt, it would cause a ripple effect around the world and would likely cause a global collapse, which would usher in the global anti-Christ government long predicted along with its dreaded cashless society.
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