United States Politics: ∆τ_i*ε*φ*m_i<0 where ε=4 and φ=0.25

[benji]

The numbers are so large that, if successful, we would literally be able to balance our American Budget.

He probably really believes this even though it's clearly false on its face. Half a century of budget deficits and he thinks it's all some states who are recently trying to spite him. Even as every budget deficit is listed in the budget Congress passes including those he's personally signed.

States of any color are lax on fraud because it's literally not their problem. The fraud still is pennies compared to what the feds willingly spend.

At one point, Mr. Trump indicated at a private lunch that military spending needed to be a national priority, even at the expense of federal safety-net programs and other government aid.

"It's not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do it on a state basis," he said, adding the focus had to be "military protection."

It's like me playing Sim City.

Sorry we can't have POLICE we need a CASINO

This also isn't up to him and something Congress will never do. Republicans have had multiple majorities and never even attempted to block grant these back to the states*, let alone end them entirely as federal programs. And Trump only has the rest of the year with a GOP majority.

This is aside from the fact that this contradicts Trump's own "promises made" and every previous budget he's signed along with how appropriations works in the first place. I still do not know why anyone treats his pronouncements as having any value, let alone getting excited or outraged by them. His statements are all his fantasy land delusions yet we're now decades into people pretending they're all true and real.

*Congress won't do this, which doesn't change the spending allocation it simply just sends the money blindly, because it will give too much authority to the states rather than allowing Congress and the feds to micromanage all the states. This is the same reason Trump wouldn't do it, considering above he's complaining about the states not running these as he wants.