Comment by Brybry

If Trump is our fiscal savior then why did he let Congress create that spending under his administration?

There's a FEMA program, created in 1987 for Americans, call the Emergency Food and Shelter Program.

In 2019, during the first Trump administration, Congress passed additional funding for EFSP-H (Humanitarian) to expand the program to migrant families.[1]

Then in 2022, under the Biden administration, Congress decided to move that into a new separate CBP/FEMA program which is the Shelter and Services Program.[2]

I would be all for an administration that forces Congress to create a budget that decreases spending and increases revenue (or at least maintains revenue) in order to decrease the deficit (or at least decrease the rate of deficit growth).

So far there's no evidence this administration is doing that. But we don't have a fleshed out budget bill to look at yet either.

Americans might be tired of politicians' excuses but it's my opinion, from the (lack of) evidence so far, that we're being misled: the rich will get richer, government services will be worse, our democratic rules will be weaker, and the national debt will still increase. Hopefully my opinion is wrong.

[1] https://www.fema.gov/grants/emergency-food-and-shelter-progr...

[2] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47681