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President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TIME: President Trump's budget includes a simple accounting error that adds up to a $2 trillion oversight. Under the proposed budget released Tuesday, the Trump Administration's proposed tax cuts would boost economic growth enough to pay for $1.3 trillion in spending by 2027. But the tax cuts are also supposed to be revenue-neutral, meaning that trillion dollars is already supposed to pay for the money lost from the tax cuts. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called the oversight an "elementary double count" and "a logical error of the kind that would justify failing a student in an introductory economics course" in an op-ed in the Washington Post.
At some point the Trump apologists are going to have to stop deflecting to Clinton. Your guy is in office now, he's the one that you have to defend. Clinton lost the election, therefore isn't worthy of your time. What should be worthy is the constant stream of fuckups and potentially treason coming out of the current administration. You're not in a campaign anymore, you're in government.