It's tough to keep up on the flood of news, but don't lose sight of what Trump is doing to our economy and finances. Headlines from the last couple of days:

Trump promised his economic policies would erase the deficit. Instead, the national debt surpassed a record $39 trillion last week. It hit $38 trillion five months ago and $37 trillion two months before that.
https://apnews.com/article/us-national-deficit-hits-39-million-6ff73495bae701b5c009d3da5515ca3a

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US national debt surges past $39 trillion

The U.S. national debt has hit a record $39 trillion. The deficit hit the milestone Wednesday just weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. The Government Accountability Office says rising debt can raise borrowing costs for mortgages and cars. It can also squeeze wages and push up prices. Budget advocates warn that growing interest payments force tougher tradeoffs. The federal debt has surged under both Republican and Democratic presidents, most recently fueled by wars, large-scale pandemic spending and tax cuts. The U.S. national debt hit $38 trillion five months ago — and $37 trillion two months before that.

AP News

The Trump administration altered a Social Security report to hide how long call wait times have been due to the DOGE cuts.
https://newrepublic.com/post/208020/donald-trump-changed-report-doge-social-security

To try to calm the declining markets, Trump claimed the Iran war is winding down, but the Pentagon is making detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-iran-ground-troop-preparations/

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Trump Team Changed a Report to Hide How Bad DOGE Made Things

You’d never know what call wait times at the Social Security Administration are actually like based on what was supposed to be a nonpartisan report.

The New Republic

As Americans struggle with rising energy prices, Trump wants to pay companies around $1 billion to cancel wind power projects that would reduce energy costs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-wants-pay-company-almost-174306851.html

The Heritage Foundation's chief economist, who is a Trump ally, warned, “The economy is weaker than we thought it was, and inflation is worse than we thought it was… I don’t think this is an economy that is going to be able to handle $100 a barrel for oil, it’s just not.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ally-says-us-economy-weaker-than-we-thought-11702260

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Trump Wants To Pay a Company Almost $1 Billion To Cancel Its Wind Projects in New York and North Carolina

If the company refuses, the government may still terminate its lease.

Yahoo News

@augieray

The Money Men are always eager to protect us from clean air and boring climate. Thanks for another example.

@oldclumsy_nowmad @augieray

When the earth runs out of oil, the rich will sell clean air and clean water at $100.00 a barrel in order to stay rich forever.

@SeanPLynch @oldclumsy_nowmad @augieray I think that before that we’re going to run out of soil to grow crops and people to tend whatever is left: they will have to eat their money, good luck with the bitcoins!

@augieray

Let's correct the title of this news item:

Yahoo News title:
Trump Wants To Pay a Company Almost $1 billion To Cancel Its Wind Projects in New York and North Carolina

Truthful title:
Trump Wants You and Me (Taxpayers) To Pay a Company Almost $1 billion To Cancel Its Wind Projects in New York and North Carolina

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Thanks for flagging this article, Augie Ray!

@augieray It’s always about revenge. The wind turbines prevailed over his Scottish golf course & he’ll fight against them, senselessly, forever.

@augieray

When are Americans going to realize that Trump rules on behalf of
First: himself
Second: large corporate donors
Third: people with leverage against him

Everyone else is just a means to his end.

@AnnaAnthro

#RiseUp

@augieray
Oligarchy controls Pentagon without leadership, at many levels. The real big news that will be ignored tomorrow....

"The Pentagon is making detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran." without a declaration of war from lame-ass criminal congress.

@augieray

After all the lies he has told, why would any investor be 'calmed' by anything he says?

@bonaventuresoft

@augieray He can't continue his market manipulation while requesting billions to expand the war and sending the Marines to their slaughter. He can't bend reality to his will
@augieray so it be 42 by end of the year. Nice tribute to #douglasadams. USA really know how to party … 😳😜
@augieray it's not his money. He will be much richer after his 2nd term.

@augieray

It is important for people to understand that because the US is a currency sovereign, deficit spending creates money in the act of spending. The negative balance of the US government is the money supply and it is miss named debt.

Taxes diminish the money supply because it lowers the negative balance. And guess who has the most money but doesn’t pay tax and guess who gets a trickle of it but does?

And guess who collects the interest because they swap that money for bonds?

@augieray something something Obama and/or Biden's fault.
@augieray @lisamelton remember when Republicans cared so deeply about the deficit, when they didn’t hold power?

@augieray

He increased it by ~40% in his first term (7.8 Trillion dollars)

@augieray we should not be talking about Epstein because the Dow IS over 50k

Main concern of an AG, not crimes, but the DOW, MAN

@augieray Pictured. Not even a useful idiot.
@augieray 114.000 dollar per American. Wow. Just wow. Compared to 26.334 dollar of national debt per Dutch person