Bullshit.

Those 300,000 people aren't paying taxes on that income. They aren't buying stuff they used to be able to buy. They aren't investing. And this is supposed to be an improvement?

Being wildly generous, let’s say the average salary and benefits is $100,000 per year. Some will be more, but most will be less. Even at that inflated price that works out to $30,000,000,000 per year. That’s $30 billion. Multiply that by 10 years and you’re at $300 billion. Not $1 trillion.

That already inflated figure should be reduced, as others have pointed out, by the loss of tax revenue to the government(s), and contributions to the economy caused by the loss of income.

As I recall, DOGE was supposed to save $1-2 trillion annually. Smilin’ Kevin is a lying sack of shit.

to do some of the work of those whose jobs were eliminated. We know, eliminating those jobs led to serious staff shortages at some agencies, which in turn led to a need to add people to cover legislatively required work. Those private contractors are almost certainly making significantly more than the government workers whose jobs were eliminated.

All those minorities (esp. black women) with better paying jobs & benefits than them really sticks in their selfish, trite little craws. They think they have their jobs because of preferential hiring and treatment, cause that's what the demagogues tell them.

In reality, it all stems from the billionaire's desperation to be more powerful than the governments of the world, to be "above the law", so they collectively spend billions to manipulate the dumbest, most selfish, and generally most fascist-leaning among us to hate any power the government has to rein their rapacious desires in, and that very much includes the power of its people/workers.

They apparently hate democracy, and desire a return to feudal times, with tribes and clans and people subservient to competing (male) warlords and shit like that. Regressive, ass-backwards, hateful thinking. All of the maga rank and file are pawns, and if they prevail, it will be to all of humanities detriment.

The actual budget deficit was reduced by a measly $41 billion, which is less than 7% of Hasset's totally fabricated number. In the mean time, the National Debt has increased by close to $3 Trillion in less than 15 months of Trump's 2nd term. This after an increase of $8.4 Trillion in Trump's first term.

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/vendor/_accounts/JEC-R/debt/Monthly%20Debt%20Update.html

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-did-president-trump-add-debt

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-hits-38-trillion-in-debt-after-the-fastest-accumulation-of-1-trillion-outside-of-the-pandemic
U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic