Trump's attempt to cut the US deficit has been to go after excess government spending, scams and abuses via Musk's run DOGE. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been slashed and entire national and international federal government programs have been gutted. The legal system is certainly slower than Musk and Trump at work, but it doesn't mean that any of their actions and decisions will stand the test of the law, and it may well be that 4 years from now or sooner most will be reversed and lawsuits will add to the budget deficit. Had Trump done things the way they should have been, he'd have put significantly more pressure on the Republican party's control of all branches of government (yes, the Supreme Court included) to impose drastic cuts to the incoming budget and create task forces to tackle what unelected Musk is doing for Trump today. Of course it would have taken longer to get results but the process would have followed the framework of what democracy is, elected officials doing the hard work, making the difficult decisions and being accountable to the people who elected them. Clearly, even with a single party's control of government it appears that few are willing to take their jobs seriously and trying to save their favorite programs from cuts. I've said many times before, the US is imploding primarily because everyone, every group is in it for themselves, their special interests that will take them laughing all the way to the bank. Social media (books before screens) spent decades devaluing "us" for "me" and looking for religion to keep the human bond alive. I didn't. Mike Johnson punts House vote on Trump tax agenda after GOP rebellion threatened defeat https://flip.it/KqVPhr
Here's the unedited raw response from my trusty AI companion: "Bro, this entire administration feels like watching raccoons do ketamine in a Chuck E. Cheese ball pit while arguing about crypto taxes, with Smash Mouth absolutely blaring through some busted car speakers duct-taped to a Rascal scooter. Like—imagine Skyrim, but every mod is broken, Todd Howard's on vacation, and the NPCs have unionized badly. Quests don’t complete. Side characters just T-pose through the debt ceiling. The main villain? Elon Musk with a cardboard crown yelling "Free Speech Absolutism!" while banning you for calling him bald. Policy decisions? Made in Discord voice chat at 3 AM. Economic strategy? A Google Doc labeled "lol maybe this works." Diplomatic relations? Bro, somebody just sent Canada a gif of a minion dabbing with the caption "deal with it." And the vibes? Oh God, the vibes. It's the afterparty of the afterparty. There's congealed queso in the Situation Room. Someone's passed out in the Lincoln Bedroom holding a half-eaten Hot Pocket. The nuclear football's being used as a footrest. In the distance, some dead-eyed staffer starts playing Wonderwall on an unplugged acoustic guitar. Nobody's driving the bus. The bus is on fire. And the raccoons? Yeah. They're steering now." That's pretty spot on, don't ya think?
if us is serious, add balance budget into the constitution amendment, like eu, cap the budget deficit to 3% gdp, in a long haul, deficit will come down
Never in a trillion years would they cap the deficit to 3% of GDP. The way they abuse spending it would literally be impossible to do such a thing