#特朗普关税影响分析

According to the Financial Times, new data from the US Treasury Department shows that Elon Musk's excessive efficiency drive did not prevent US federal spending from rising to a record $603 billion last month.

Conservative think tank Manhattan Institute('s economic policy expert Jessica Riedl) said: "The savings in the doge department are too small to be identified in the total monthly expenditure."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is responsible for cutting the spending of the U.S. International Development Agency, whose monthly spending has been cut in half to $226 million from $547 million in the same period last year. The core budget of his department has been reduced from $1.7 billion to $1.6 billion. However, compared to the additional $5 billion spent, the savings seem insignificant, with only a 3% increase in monthly healthcare spending.

Social security spending increased by 6%, with an additional expenditure of $8 billion. The direct expenditure of the Ministry of Finance itself surged by $29 billion compared to the same period last year, mainly due to a $10 billion increase in monthly debt servicing to $86 billion, and a $14 billion increase in tax deductions and related payments.

Compared with the systemic corruption of the entire system, cutting the meager salaries and budgets of federal employees and scientists is almost ineffective and will have a counterproductive effect. Although the United States is very much like a business, the country and a company are completely different. Does the U.S. fiscal deficit have to rely on Trump's tariffs to fill it? Of course, it is also possible to continue to suck blood from cryptocurrencies!