As a general rule I avoid all discussions about governmental deficit spending because I don't want to have to teach a two year course on economics before I can get ignorant people to understand government spending is not at all like the way they balance their own personal checkbook. Given that every time they're asked why they want to starve children and seniors to fund massive tax cuts for billionaires, Trump and the larger GOP start fearmongering about the federal deficit however, the shocking financial details of the budgetary bill the fascists are trying to pass becomes a story about propaganda and openly lying to the American people. So how much would this spending bill, which according to the ruling party is absolutely necessary to prevent debt-induced economic collapse, going to shave off the US deficit? Turns out, nothing; in fact, current estimates say it's going to add $3.8 trillion (with a t) dollars to said deficit.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-reconciliation-package
Congressional Analysis: GOP Tax Gifts to Rich Would Explode Deficit They Always Complain About
"While Republicans on Capitol Hill—including the leaders of both chambers of Congress—have long argued for reducing the national debt, the GOP is now pushing a tax bill that would not only fund giveaways to the rich by gutting programs that serve the working class, but also add $3.8 trillion to the U.S. deficit."
Speaking honestly, one of the things I absolutely detest about American politics under the capitalist duopoly is the way liberals will adopt false Republican talking points as a sort of gotcha or "hypocrisy" argument; I have little patience for deficit hawks at the best of times, and this isn't the best of times. I don't care about the US federal deficit, you shouldn't care about the US federal deficit, and the US economy isn't being cratered by America's national debt, it's being cratered by pro-oligarch economic policy that's allowing more and more to be extracted from US labor in the short term, at the cost of investment that might benefit us all on a long enough timeline. We know from our other discussions that this is because nazi billionaires think it's the end of the world and they're cashing out now to prepare for dystopian fascist police states in an ongoing climate apocalypse; none of this has sweet fuck all to do with US federal debt.
So, if we can agree to set aside the absurdity of the argument that this is bad because the GOP is increasing the national debt, we can then focus on the real, and extremely obscene reality we're looking at. Specifically that no matter what they say, no matter what lies they disseminate, no matter what excuses they offer up, the GOP is slashing billions of dollars in spending that benefits everyday Americans across the entire political spectrum, to give the ultra-wealthy and US corporations tax massive tax breaks that will only rapidly magnify the wealth inequality that's driving our collective social decline. This isn't economic policy, this isn't about managing the long term financial interests of the American people, this is fucking murder and theft. Full stop.