The Daily Populous Tuesday March 25th, 2025 night edition
Authored by talkingpointsmemo.com and submitted by GraceOfTheNorth

The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax, etc. It’s worth taking a moment to put this number into some context in case half a trillion dollars doesn’t do it for you. Non-defense discretionary spending is the cost to fund the U.S. government once you take out mandatory spending (mostly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and the cost of the U.S. military. For 2023 that number was $917 billion. So that’s most of the stuff we think of as the government, apart from those payment programs and the military. In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.

FlamingMuffi on March 24th, 2025 at 17:48 UTC »

I was kinda kidding when I said "they're gonna save a few million to steal a few billion"

The word few is woefully inadequate here

Fool_On_the_Hill_9 on March 24th, 2025 at 17:38 UTC »

If you fire the people who are responsible for collecting revenue you're going to lose revenue. DOGE is about making and saving money for the wealthy, not reducing government spending.

insuproble on March 24th, 2025 at 17:37 UTC »

No wonder Trump bankrupted so many of his businesses.