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Oh OK. And when will these changes take effect, so that we can see federal spending in year X+1 being less than it was in year X?

I agree with your assessment of the Inflation Reduction Act, which makes it all the more noteworthy that since Republicans have gained power, they have governed with such an extreme leftwing agenda that even after the Inflation Reduction Act...

Anybody want to take a stab at translating this into English?

What study from MIT are you referring to?

Maybe, maybe not. Republicans love to say that. But they have a habit of not living up to it. But regardless, you're moving the goalposts. Spending less than some hypothetical alternative where spending increases even faster than it is now is...

Hold up now. Earlier you weren't counting 2025 as a Trump year, which actually was a fair point. But you can't turn around now and count that in Trump's favor if you think that increasing spending 82 Billion dollars over what it already was in...

I'll let Trump off the hook for those.

Where's the year that federal spending was less than the previous year?

The country didn't shut down in 2020 because of Obamacare. It shut down because the guy who was President in 2020 decided to shut it down.

Nope. If cuts don't happen within a year, they don't count. Promises that another president and Congress in the future will have the courage to let cuts take effect don't count toward the current president and Congress who make that promise and...

Cut spending means spending less in year X+1 than in year X. Edit: I would even take spending less in year X+1 than year X after allowing for increases due to inflation and population growth. But we're not even going to get that.

He isn't going to do that, and he doesn't have any desire to.

Do you believe that federal spending in 2026 will be lower than 2025? I wasn't saying that the BBB had spending cuts that take effect in 2026. I was saying that its cuts are farther off in the future than that.

You were looking at the wrong number. Every time she went shopping, you were supposed to pay attention to how much she saved.

What I think it is is that the only spending cuts Republicans have actually passed are set to take effect in future years. None are immediate. In other words, they're make believe and they will never happen. It's Congress in 2025 passing a bill...