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So deficits are fine as long as the money is being spent on killing people. Got it.

"wasteful social spending"

Let’s be clear. He thinks spending on society is wasteful.

Why are tax revenues down? I gather it has nothing to do with economic mismanagement and tax cuts for the wealthy?

2 experts on the economy Dumb and dumber Why is a cabinet member on the War room? Simple, it’s a cult and Gestapo

Fat Beethoven jailbird

Ghoulish little basset hound.

GTFO you stupid Trunt

$4.7 trillion in 18 months is “slightly up”.

Yup. Right up until there’s a Democrat in the White House. Then it will suddenly become a national emergency that they want solved TODAY.

Can I borrow these, please?

Party of fiscal responsibility speaks.

Any spending that does not put dollars directly in the pockets of the oligarchs is “wasteful spending.”

I’m really sick of being on this planet with these 🤬s. I don’t even want to go outside anymore. They make everything suck.

Odd to see. The US Secretary of the Treasury… on a podcast with one of the organizers of the 1/6 Insurrection.

Bassett is out of his mind.

Umm.. fake gold, useless ballroom, and unqualified contractors are fucking wasteful.

Like they were every really worried about deficits. They just used it as a cudgel against Democrats.

When he and his investment group made money from the $46B the convict gave Argentina so that U.S. farmers were royally screwed was probably not a big deal for him either.

And if ‘26 isn’t flat to slightly up?

What jobs dumbass?

It's criminal embezzlement.

Only when a Dem is POTUS (or Dems hold majority in House and/or Senate) 🙄

No, it wasn’t that wasteful spending on food, medical care, people in need. But we can happily blow millions and millions on sprucing up the White House, the Reflecting Pool, not to mention start an unnecessary war.

Yep, that's dotard!

"wasteful social spending"

Cartoonish villains

Every word out of his fucking pathetic, entitled pie hole is pure bullshit,

He’s such an ‘entitled’ asshole

Hmmm, it’s wasteful military and corporate spending.

This lying Republican is on Steve Bannon's show. Epstein friend and Jan6 ringleader. Crime syndicate

I get a kick out of how that drunken, scab-infested, unwashed scumbag derelict Bannon always tries to look like Buddha or Yoda or the Dalai Lama or anything other than what he is, which is a bum. I would have thought that soaking MAGAts out of "wall money" would have been a career-ender.

Headline: Bessent defines 45% upward angles as "flat", like Earth.

Because they made and follow their dear Profit.

They said socialism would bankrupt the nation. Turns out it's tariffs, pointless wars and tax cuts for the hyper-privileged.

Plus we also hate steve bannon.

Brilliant 🤷‍♂️

So it’s ok to have a deficit if we are funding wars, but not for feeding poor people. Got it.

Wasteful social spending? What a piece of 💩

Does he mean the type of spending that gets put back into our economy? Seems like that would be a positive...silly me, not thinking of the hoarders

wasteful social spending? like feeding the poors

They don't care bc they're stealing as much as they can.

We're in the upside down...

.. His stuttering is very telling. He can't even convince himself. ...

That was the phrase that stood out to me. Wasteful social spending. Fuck that guy.

Dems should never ever take the debt/deficit bait when republicans are in the minority.

* until the next Democratic president is in office

Yeah, it’s a war of choice. The essence of wasteful spending. And it’s not flat. It’s way up.

BREAKING: they never have been. Deficits always go up under their “rule” because they pass bankrupt policies and fight off the books wars.

Of course Republicans don't care about deficits, they're busy beating their spouses.

If you steal all you can and burn the rest with war crimes it's still better than serving the needs of the people. As a fascist like Bessent will tell you. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The GOP will begin to worry about the deficit as soon as a Democrat is the president of the United States again. And I pray that Democrats do the right thing and remind them every single moment that Trump ran the deficit up trillions of dollars.

Only until the Dems are in charge

It's never been more wasteful. It's literally causing inflation, mental trauma and death.

Only because they don't pay that debt, someone else gonna get that tab

My mind is melting

So, our government can just create our currency in our name to pay for our General Welfare Sure, it would mean making banks a bit sad 😢 But FDR welcomed their sadness

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lol. “Social spending” = Building a Fascist State. Anyway, Republicans haven’t cared about deficits as long as it promotes their agenda It’s only Democrats who care about deficits if it promotes The Public Good

It’s wasteful anti-social spending

“Wasteful social Spending “. The ad for the Democratic Party write itself.

Better to spend it on war and tax cuts for the rich thab helping anybody. 🤮

Has what’s his face gotten fatter and greasier?

not when they are being paid off.

I thought Republicans promised 6% growth from day one. Now, flat growth means the deficits OK. We got people running the economy who can’t do basic math.

They don’t care where the money goes, as long as it doesn’t go to social programs. They want financial segregation.

"As long as people aren't being helped it's fine"

“It’s called other people’s money. There’s nothing like doing things with other people’s money,” Trump said. “Because it takes, the risk, you get a good chunk of it and it takes the risk.” DJT “I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me.” DJT

Is Bannon mad that the regime hasn’t completely destroyed the economy yet? I mean, that’s step one on his plan to rebuild the US as a whites-only fascist country. Chop chop, people!

They know they can't lie about it so now they move on to normalize it, just like everything else they lie until they can't then they just normalize.

this feels appropriate again 🫤

Only worried when Democrats have the majority...

They will be the next time a Democrat is in the White House

I’m pretty sure there is ZERO chance of 2026 being flat to slightly up.

Dems have never challenged Fascists on the fact our government creates our currency and banks create loans

Republicans haven't been fiscally responsible since the Eisenhower administration

No, it's wasteful MILITARY spending.

Well there's the problem

They never were.

They are only upset about deficits and debt when a Democrat is in the Oval Office. But Republicans will go into debt and have heavy deficits when they are in office so they can give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. Did you see that, MSM???

There’s definitely nothing “social” about spending it on a war, Trump’s gold vanity projects and Trump’s golfing weekends. So I guess we’re safe from “social” spending.

Just wasteful grifting spending

This should be played over and over for the election ads.

God, they’re scum

If that isnt a steaming pile of poo right there. Bessent chatting w bannon, a shell of a man, blaspheming gop fiscal doctrine. Yeah spend like there's no tomorrow on weapons, war and bigotry-loving ice - all good cuz it's not social spending. They are subhuman.

Republicans have ruined the future of our grandchildren. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/08/figh...

Here’s our future with this thinking

Social spending wasteful. Setting billions on fire in the Middle East, not so much?

The interest payments alone on the US National Debt in FY 2025 was $1.22T (Trillion) & the corrupt US Regime just keeps spending like they have unlimited funds to play with. Good luck. fiscaldata.treasury.gov/interest-exp...

Because they know they won't have to deal with the aftermath...

I wouldnt call feeding my neighbors wasteful spending. Hell, even back when I was an idiot Republican, I still thought feeding my neighbors was a good use of taxpayer dollars.

I don’t think Bannon was fully buying into that word salad of excuses

The GOP— Medicaid and SNAP: “Wasteful government spending and what about the national debt?!” Trump vanity projects and another no-win war: “Who cares about the national debt?! We NEED these!!!”

So they die, let them eat cake.

They’re only worried when a Dem is in office!! Such hypocrites!!!🤮🤮

Social spending goes right back into the economy, not to a wealthy person's bank account.

So only social spending is wasteful? He’s such a creep

Of course they're not worried. Deficits only matter for healthcare, housing, or kids. For tax cuts, slush fund, and the Iran war Congress never authorized, the wallet is wide open. Fiat means the money's always there. We can afford social programs. Republicans and establishment Democrats just won't.

They've never cared about it. They only pretend to care when Democrats are in power.

bessant once watched the finance news so hes an expert

They will be, once (D)'s are back in power.

Translation: "Don't worry, none of this money was wasted on people we stole it from, lolz die poors die!"

Wow. So, this is so incredibly clueless, but makes a great sound bite.

Nope - just wasteful unnecessary war, ICE gestapo, and ballroom bunker spending…🤮

Bessent. What an asshole.

What an asshole

No, it's tax breaks for BILLIONAIRES Criminal

It’s not issue for them Just for us peasants right asshole ?

Someone slap that smug face

They never were.

Whatever tf that means. This guy is such a putz

“Flat to slightly up” like #MitchMcConnell? Oh!

Yeah, can’t spend money on food and medical care for the people, but spending it on bombs, loads and loads of ‘em, and then using ‘em on a war started thoughtlessly on a whim, and on little boats and their occupants in the Caribbean and Pacific, now that’s worth driving up the debt.