Sean CastenDonald Trump and the GOP gave our nation's wealthiest a $5 TRILLION tax cut. That's more than enough to cover these costs. That's what he's prioritized over your health and child care. Here are some other things Trump has prioritized: https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2039444784083771629?s=20
1. Let's only look at the dumbest things Trump has funded. Things that are self-evidently wasteful and provide no value to the American people (as compared to health & child care). Incomplete list in process.
2. $1.5 million to Michael Flynn as a "settlement" after he pled guilty to lying to Federal investigators about conversations he had with the Russians during the 2016 Presidential transition. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-justice-department-settles-lawsuit-trump-ally-flynn-undisclosed-sum-2026-03-25/
3. Nearly $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbit for her role attacking the Capitol and the US Capitol Police. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/ashli-babbitt-trump-settlement-00392746
4. $47 million maintaining ships full of illegally seized oil that cannot find an international market because the United States lacks clear title. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/trump-seized-oil-tankers-cost.html
5. $220 million to run DHS ads featuring Kristi Noem on a horse, and to fund lots of shady businesses under what appears to be a highly corrupt operation led by "undersecretary" Lewandowski. https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
6. $400 million (and counting) to demolish part of the White House for a vanity project with no approval or authorization because baby wants a ballroom. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/17/trump-white-house-ballroom-400-million/87808741007/
7. $3 billion to attack Venezuela and seize their oil under pretenses that have never been fully explained or defended but in at least one case ("he was indicted by SDNY so we had to get him") apply to Trump himself. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-14/us-military-s-venezuela-operations-most-likely-cost-billions
8. $20 billion in emergency stabilization funds to Argentina to prop up their economy and expose US taxpayers to Argentinian currency risk, even as US soy farmers were losing market share to them on account of dumb tariffs. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5609382/argentina-loan-bessent-treasury-bailout#:~:text=via%20Getty%20Images-,Last%20month%2C%20during%20the%20longest%20government%20shutdown%20in%20U.S.%20history,Subscribe%20to%20Planet%20Money+
9. $2 billion per day (so >$30 billion as of today) to bomb Iran and jack up your gasoline prices with no clearly stated objective, strategy or evident awareness of geography or global energy market impacts. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/is-the-iran-war-really-costing-the-us-2bn-per-day#:~:text=Earlier%2C%20on%20Thursday%2C%20two%20US,reach%20that%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said
10. $85 billion in additional funding for ICE (3x historic funding levels) so they can hire more, less qualified people to violate your rights, kill American citizens and fulfill Steven Miller's racist fantasies without accountability. https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
11. Like I said, this list isn't complete. But that is - just off the top of my head - $140 billion in wasteful spending that the GOP is prioritizing over American's basic needs. This is the not-even-a-close-call stuff.
12. For context, that is almost equal to the total $ the US collected from tariff revenue last year. So even if you love the inflationary effect of those tariffs, it's a wash on the revenue side. https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-revenue-does-the-federal-government-collect-from-tariffs/country/united-states/
How much revenue does the federal government collect from tariffs?
$194.9 billion in FY 2025. This figure reflects revenue from tariffs and other import-related fees, also known as customs duties. Customs duties are taxes and fees paid by US importers and collected by US Customs and Border Protection on goods imported into the country, which generate revenue for the federal government.
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