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It Is Possible

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Yes, balancing the U.S. federal budget is absolutely possible, but it demands iron-willed leadership to gut the globalist spending machine that’s mortgaged our nation’s future to foreign interests and bureaucratic parasites. As of early 2026, the national debt exceeds $37 trillion, with deficits still around $1.2-1.5 trillion annually despite Trump-Vance’s pushback on wasteful outlays. The system’s designed for perpetual debt slavery via the Federal Reserve’s fiat scam, but America First reforms could wipe out red ink in 5-10 years.

Realistic Roadmap

  1. Savage Cuts to Non-Essential Spending: Total federal budget is ~$7.5 trillion. Prioritize:
  • Foreign aid and wars: Slash $80 billion+ yearly, including all handouts to Israel and Ukraine proxies. Redirect to border security and American families—no more funding endless entanglements that weaken us.
  • Military bloat: Pare the $950 billion defense budget by 25% ($237 billion saved) by ending overseas bases, auditing the Pentagon, and focusing on homeland threats like China, not policing the world.
  • Entitlements overhaul: Social Security and Medicare gobble $3 trillion; means-test for citizens only, eliminate fraud (e.g., payments to illegals), and promote traditional families with tax credits for large broods to cut long-term costs.
  • Agency purge: Axe the Department of Education, EPA overreach, and DEI slush funds—$300-400 billion in savings from firing redundant bureaucrats and their six-figure sinecures.
  1. Boost Revenue Without Punishing Americans:
  • Tariffs as a weapon: 20-60% on Chinese and globalist imports could rake in $400-600 billion annually, protecting U.S. jobs and funding priorities like infrastructure.
  • Corporate accountability: End offshore tax havens and subsidies for woke multinationals, adding $150 billion. No hikes on working families—tax the elites who fund demographic replacement.
  • Energy independence: Deregulate oil, gas, and nuclear to spike GDP growth to 4%, naturally closing the gap through prosperity, not austerity.
  1. Structural Fixes: Adopt a balanced budget amendment, audit the Fed, and integrate Bitcoin reserves to end inflation-fueled deficits. Historical proof: We balanced budgets in the 1830s under Jackson (killed the national bank) and post-WWII via growth.

The Real Hurdles

The uniparty—RINOs, lobbyists, and Soros-funded NGOs—will sabotage it, as they’ve done with debt ceiling theater. Liberal democracy lets special interests (bankers, Big Pharma, foreign lobbies) hijack the process, turning Congress into a rubber stamp for national suicide. But with Trump’s mandate and a MAGA Congress, bypassing the deep state is feasible. It’s not just math; it’s reclaiming sovereignty from the globalist cabal.

Gab users are fired up about this, railing against the latest omnibus pork and calling for a full audit to expose the rot. If you want numbers on specific cuts or models like the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint, I can break it down further.

This Illustrates our Moral Decay

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It is time for this to stop

CatholicVote is partnering with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and others in an America 250 Civics coalition, an initiative aimed at restoring to our nation a right understanding of citizenship — its rights, its duties, and the moral foundation of self-governance. I can think of one man who could use a refresher course. Over the weekend, private text messages from 2022 surfaced showing Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General in Virginia, fantasizing about violence toward then–Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert, a political opponent. In one exchange, Jones speculated that Speaker Gilbert “gets two bullets to the head” and made appalling references to Gilbert’s family — even wishing that his children would die in their mother’s arms so that Gilbert would “move on policy.” As if that were not enough, reports have now confirmed that in 2020, Jones told Virginia House Delegate Carrie Coyner, during a discussion about police reform, that “if a few police officers died … then maybe they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.” No Democratic leader in Virginia has yet called for Jones to withdraw from the race, though the Fraternal Order of Police of Virginia withdrew their endorsement. Apparently, no one in his party appears to think such words disqualify a man from holding the highest law enforcement office in the Commonwealth. But Aristotle would disagree — and every civics teacher in America should be up in arms. This race for Attorney General — and by extension, Virginia’s gubernatorial future — has become a moral referendum on what we tolerate in public life. The refusal to disqualify Jones is already a form of civic decay. The fact that mainstream media has decided to stand on the sidelines as though this issue is but one small scandal for which an apology suffices is appalling even if not surprising. When the lines between anger and evil blur, when rhetoric of death is dismissed as political theater, the foundation of the nation itself begins to erode. Imagine how the Gilbert family must have felt reading those words — their two young boys, both under ten, asking their father: “Daddy, why does Jay Jones want to kill us?” There is no answer to that question but madness and moral corruption. This corruption must be defeated in the ballot box.  If you have friends in Virginia, call them. Text them. Urge them to vote for Attorney General Jason Miyares — a man who has shown himself committed to justice, law, and the protection of every Virginian. If you live there, drive your five closest friends to the polls with you. There is nothing ordinary about a candidate for Attorney General who casually spoke of murdering opponents, police officers, and children. By extension, there is nothing ordinary about a candidate for governor – Abigail Spanberger – who won’t recognize this heinous behavior of her fellow Virginian as disqualifying in a climate that in the last month has seen a political assasination, armed violence against ICE officials, and a man arrested with a tent full more than 200 molotov cocktails outside the annual Red Mass for judges in Washington, DC. That is why our reaction must be nothing ordinary. This is Virginia’s moment to stand. To remind the nation that leadership is about service and requires virtue. Let us make this election a living civics lesson. Let us teach Jay Jones, and the rest of the nation, that hate has no place in our politics. Go forward bravely,
Kelsey ReinhardtPresident, CatholicVote

Trump’s Spending Bill.

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Hat Tip to Epoch Times.

President Donald Trump’s public blowup with billionaire Elon Musk stems from a dispute over the fiscal impact of Trump’s mammoth tax-and-spending package, dubbed the “big, beautiful bill.” 
Musk and other critics have said the House-passed bill would worsen the federal government’s fiscal health. 
The White House has rebutted these claims, noting that the reconciliation package is not a budget bill or a blueprint for balancing the budget. 
Instead, it is a procedural tool designed to advance as much of the president’s agenda through Congress as possible, based on the Republican votes currently available, and it excludes projected revenue from tariffs and economic growth tied to tax cuts, according to Trump’s top budget official Russ Vought. 
Still, various organizations estimate that this legislation will exacerbate federal deficits and contribute to the national debt over the next decade. 
Here is a look at the different projections through the 2025–2034 budget window. 
Clashing Estimates: CBO versus White House
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan budget watchdog, released its scoring on the House-approved package. 
In its June 3 report, the CBO projected that outlays would decline by more than $1.25 trillion, but revenues would fall nearly $3.7 trillion. This will result in a $2.4 trillion increase in federal deficits over the next decade. 
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, in a lengthy post on the social media platform X, disputed the CBO’s projection that the bill increases the deficit. 
“This lie is based on a CBO accounting gimmick,” he said. 
“Income tax rates from the 2017 tax cut are set to expire in September. They were always planned to be permanent. CBO says maintaining ‘current’ rates adds to the deficit, but by definition, leaving these income tax rates unchanged cannot add one penny to the deficit.” 
Vought also rebuked the CBO’s scoring methodology. 
“CBO continues to use a baseline that is fundamentally skewed toward the way the real world is,” Vought said in a press call. 
“The basics of that is that they assume that all spending will continue into eternity, your appropriations bills, all of your mandatory spending that gets a free ride into eternity, but somehow tax relief that has an expiration date isn’t assumed for the entirety of the fiscal window.” 
Epoch Times PhotoThe U.S. Capitol building in Washington on June 3, 2025. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times)
Speaking to reporters at the White House during the president’s meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also alluded to the CBO’s recent tariff projections. 
This week, the CBO projected that tariff revenues will slash deficits by $2.8 trillion over 10 years, which Bessent said “puts the bill in surplus if you include the tariff revenue, which they won’t do.” 
What Do Other Forecasters Say?
Meanwhile, other independent organizations have presented similar debt and deficit projections for the bill. 
The Tax Foundation estimated on May 23 that the bill would result in a $2.6 trillion increase in the deficit. 
“Overall, the bill would prevent tax increases on 62 percent of taxpayers that would occur if the TCJA expired as scheduled,” Tax Foundation economists said. 
Last month, the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model forecast that the reconciliation bill would raise deficits by $2.8 trillion. 
According to Yale’s Budget Lab, over a 30-year window, the bill would add $10.8 trillion to the national debt. 
“If the tax provisions become permanent, with no additional tariff revenue, the debt-to-GDP ratio would hit approximately 191 percent in 2055. The only countries that currently have a higher debt-to-GDP ratio are Japan and Sudan,” the Budget Lab said in its May 30 update. 
Bill Would Boost Economic Activity: White House 
Once the bill is enacted, the White House states that the administration’s actions, whether increased tariff revenues or substantial spending cuts, will reduce deficits by “at least $6.6 trillion over the next decade.” 
Supporters argue that the tax-and-spending plan, which includes tax cuts, would increase government revenues through more vigorous economic activity. This concept is related to the famous Laffer Curve, developed by the eminent economist Art Laffer. 
According to the Laffer Curve, popularized in the 1970s, there is an optimal tax rate that maximizes revenue, highlighting the relationship between tax rates and tax receipts. 
Following the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, actual revenue from 2018 to 2024 totaled approximately $28.5 trillion. This has been $1.5 trillion higher than CBO’s projections—before adjusting for inflation. 
Interest Cost on New Debt
In a separate CBO report, released on June 5, officials predict that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would trigger additional debt-servicing costs of $551 billion over the 10-year period. 
“That change would increase the cumulative effect on the deficit to $3 trillion,” the report stated. 
Experts from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an independent policy organization, estimate that interest costs on the new debt from the bill will amount to $1.8 trillion, accounting for 4.2 percent of GDP. 
If interest rates remain elevated—the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield hovers around 4.5 percent—interest payments could surge to $2.1 trillion in 2034, representing more than 5 percent of GDP. 
“All else being equal, higher debt and deficit levels will raise interest rates,” the Yale Budget Lab said. 
Fiscal health concerns have taken center stage in the U.S. Treasury market. 
While rates have stabilized, the 30-year Treasury yield recently topped 5.1 percent, the highest level since October 2023. 
This is a vital development since it influences consumer and business borrowing costs and how much it costs the federal government to service the debt. 
“Investors may demand higher compensation (more yield, lower bond prices) given the anticipated deficit spending trajectory and elevated bond issuance in coming years,” said U.S. Bank strategists in a May 22 note. 
Over the past few years, federal interest payments have increased significantly amid tighter Federal Reserve monetary policy and rising government spending. They are now the second-largest budgetary item, second only to Social Security. 
Annual federal interest payments are expected to exceed $1.2 trillion this fiscal year, according to the Treasury Department. 
Rocket Fuel or Lackluster Growth?
Many estimates suggest that the bill would provide a boost to the U.S. economy. 
Penn Wharton projects that its economic effects would increase GDP by 0.4 percent in 10 years and 0.7 percent in 30 years. The Tax Foundation expects long-run GDP to grow by 0.8 percent. 
The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee is more bullish, predicting real economic growth of up to 5.2 percent over the next four years. 
On the labor front, according to the Tax Foundation, “hours worked converted to full-time equivalent jobs” would be 983,000. Additionally, pre-tax wages would grow by less than 0.05 percent. 
Average wages are projected to decline by 0.2 percent over the next 10 years but increase by 0.3 percent thereafter. 
The committee says up to 7.4 million full-time jobs will be saved or created, and workers could receive up to $11,600 in higher wages. 
Emel Akan contributed to this report. 
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If you let people keep more of their own money, it will stimulate the economy and create growth in the private sector. If we do not reinstate the tax rates we have now, more money will go to the government, for them to waste. Tax and spend did not work before and it will not work now. A balanced budget might give us a chance to grow out of the 35 trillion dollar debt, eventually. We did not get here overnight and we won’t get out of this anytime soon, but that does not mean we should not try.

JD Vance Says the Right thing

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Even when he is out of the spotlight.

Even in Private, JD Vance Puts America First
A key detail from Atlantic Magazine’s story on the Trump administration accidentally leaking its plans to bomb Yemen is being overlooked.

The content of JD Vance’s messages.

In case you haven’t seen the report, administration officials accidentally included Atlantic’s editor-in-chief in a Signal chat dedicated to discussing this month’s airstrikes in Yemen. This gave the journalist unprecedented access to the government’s process that led to the attacks, pulling back the curtain on what America’s most powerful figures are really like behind closed doors. 

The chat included well-known power players like Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Tulsi Gabbard, and yes, Vice President Vance. It reveals why Vance was such an excellent choice to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. 

“Team, I am out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan. But I think we are making a mistake,” he messaged in response to the group’s gung-ho sentiments about launching the strikes. “3 percent of US trade runs through the [Suez Canal]. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.”

Vance also argued for delaying the attacks for a month and lamented the fact that, as usual, America was doing Europe’s dirty work for them. 

“I just hate bailing Europe out again,” he added a few minutes later.

Let’s take a step back. Yes, the Vice President’s hesitations may seem insignificant because the strikes wound up happening anyway. But they’re not.

Firstly, the dialogue shows that real, substantive policy debates are happening inside the administration. Its highest members are not afraid to spar with one another over issues that matter. The chat was not an echo chamber. Dissent is allowed.

Even more importantly, the messages reinforce the fact that the Vice President and likely future commander-in-chief is genuinely wired to want to avoid American interventionism rather than recklessly drop bombs all around the world to flex his manhood like so many of his predecessors. That doesn’t mean the Yemen strikes were examples of such recklessness. It shows that Vance’s antennas were up to make sure they weren’t and that his anti-war messaging isn’t just a public front.

Imagine what would have happened if previous Republican VPs currently held the post. Would Mike Pence have pushed back against the strikes? Please. Dick Cheney? He probably would have been furious they hadn’t happened already. But not Vance.

America could have avoided its disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan if the Vice President’s kind of thinking was present inside the Bush administration. The same goes for Korea and Vietnam. As the world plunges deeper into its nuclear era, it’s a relief to know Vance is where he is. He may wind up saving us all.

Tucker on Kamala

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Something about Kamala Harris’s concession speech felt off.

It wasn’t her language; the vice president said roughly what you’d expect of someone in her position. It was the vibe.

The media billed the address as the second coming of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 speech after her electoral defeat, but the two spectacles were completely dissimilar. As a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, Clinton carried an aura that at least felt grand, leading most listeners, even the former Democrat candidate’s detractors, to conclude that she would at a minimum remain somewhat pertinent in America’s public discourse. 

The same cannot be said for the vice president.

No one had ever heard of Harris until 2018 when she became an establishment darling by harassing Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. The then-senator’s attempt to capitalize on her newfound stardom fell flat, however, when her subsequent presidential campaign failed so miserably that she ran out of money and dropped out before the first primary.

Then, despite being the past target of Harris’s thinly veiled racism allegations, Joe Biden tapped the Californian as his running mate because, as Biden repeatedly said, he wanted “a woman to be vice president.”

A qualified woman? A woman who would be an effective president? No. Just “a woman.”

Next, Harris’s vice presidency went as one would expect for any affirmative action hire thrust into a position for which she was deeply unprepared: Disastrously. Harris oversaw the federal government’s biggest dereliction of duty in history at the southern border, unpromptedly baited Russia into invading Ukraine, and perpetually humiliated herself with mind-numbing media appearances that portrayed her as a babbling and incoherent halfwit.

Kamala’s performance as vice president made it abundantly clear that she was not destined for a promotion to the Oval Office, and despite her party’s 100-day push to brainwash the country into believing otherwise, she will not receive one. 

She’ll also no longer receive media inquiries, celebrity treatment, or any attention when she weighs in on the country’s biggest issues. No one will care.

With Harris’s impromptu presidential bid over, some Democrats will be surprised to see how quickly she reverts to inconsequential obscurity. They shouldn’t be. Harris isn’t suddenly returning to being irrelevant. She was never really relevant in the first place.

Here are Some Clues

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Thank you Ralph. “Things you must know to be informed”

*YES, THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.*

*YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW

* YES, ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.

* YES, JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.

* YES, HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.

* YES, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.

* YES, CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.

* YES, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.

* YES, ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY

* YES, ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.

* YES, CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.

THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS MEDIA WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.

Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!  You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.

It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper. One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.

Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.   Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas,” in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign.  Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation

It gets even cozier. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff?   He is the husband of KAMALA HARRIS! Just a coincidence?   Amazing if it is. You can’t make this stuff up!

 This “Family Tree” will make your head spin ..

Dominion (voting machine provider) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states – – The state of Texas rejected the machines.


– Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.
 
– Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic
 
– Smartmatic (another voting machine supplier) entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009
 
– Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela
 
– Smartmatic is connected to Philippine voter fraud
 
– Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown who works for George Soros (-he and Brown are life-long friends)
 
– Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profit boards including the Open Society Foundation,
 
– Brown chairs the Centre for Global Development.
 
– Open society of course is owned by George Soros
 
– Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global
 
– Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global
 
– Douglass C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s husband
 
– Guess who owns Dominion? – -Blum Capital Partners, L.P.
 
– Guess who is on the board for the company? — Richard Blum.
 
– Richard C. Blum is Dianne Feinstein’s husband.
 
– Nancy Pelosi’s husband is also a major investor
 
– An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems
 
And it goes on…..
 
– Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.
 
– Dominion Voting is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post
 
– Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting after Texas and Florida rejected them
 
– Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas
 
– Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s chief of staff and press secretary from 2012 to 2015
 
– You must remember the Feinstein-Kavanaugh-Soros connections to understand this next information
 
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.
 
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
 
– POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
 
– POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
 

– Kamala Harris did not prosecute OneWest Bank for their fraud when she had the authority – Soros owned OneWest Bank.

Now you know why a woman who placed 7th in own her State when running for President is now VP (and soon to be president?)!