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No one can find the $18T Trump claims he's given the US
Trump’s Phantom Billions and the Politics of Unaccountable PowerA Government of ClaimsThe reporting here is simple enough: Trump keeps declaring windfalls, then the bills arrive anyway. In Venezuela, the administration says billions were disbursed and monitored, while the Financial Times reports nobody can account for where the money went. In tariffs, Trump talks about $18 trillion as if repetition can make it real. The Pentagon now wants more money after the administration’s war spending, and the public is left with slogans instead of ledgers.This is not confusion. It is a governing style…
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