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I think only thing likely to make US go broke is Trump's actions.

DOGE doesn't save any money. Not only because it's created many legal messes that will take forever to work out in court but because most of those jobs are important and will eventually need to be replaced at great cost and with worse results. Also some of those jobs are for auditing inefficiency and prosecuting corruption resulting in more money spent. And on top of it all they'll be using these non existent savings to justify much larger tax cuts for the rich.

The reason it looks stupid is because it is. It's not that Trump is purely dumb he's just intellectually lazy and doesn't care about policy. He long ago decided he likes tarrifs on instinct so he put massive tarrifs despite the warnings that they would be disastrous