Biden Administration Post Mortem

Hopefully Trump and Musk eliminate wasteful government spending like this.

$3 million? Wouldn't even cover the amount of money spent by the federal government in the time it takes you to stir the sugar into your coffee every morning . . . which is nearly $13 million/minute, just in case you were curious.

PrintSmith wrote: $3 million? Wouldn't even cover the amount of money spent by the federal government in the time it takes you to stir the sugar into your coffee every morning . . . which is nearly $13 million/minute, just in case you were curious.

Which is why federal spending has blown up. Scientists claiming their program costs nearly nothing, but added up we are in debt 35 trillion dollars.

Of that $13 million/minute, nearly $8 million is spent on individual welfare programs (and yes, I include Social Security and Medicare in that classification), and almost $1.7 million is spent paying interest on the national debt . . . which means the essential operations of government, defense of the Union, operating costs of the various departments, border/port security, you know, the "discretionary" budget items, account for maybe $4 million, about 31% of the total.