# Post ts_112985986776521050

- Post ID: `ts_112985986776521050`
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- Posted: 2024-08-19T01:02:19.241Z (UTC)
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## What the media says

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> Y'all recognize that more than 25% of our federal deficit every year is spent taking care of illegal immigrants? Take a look at 2023 for example, total outlays 6.1 trillion, total revenue 4.4 trillion, or federal deficit of 1.7 trillion dollars. Also in 2023 we spent 451 billion dollars taking care of illegal immigrants. So you have a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit and then we do some simple math and we see that 451 billion is 26.5% of 1.7 trillion. Meaning that more than a quarter of all of our federal deficit each year is from illegals. It's from paying to feed, house, and take care of illegal immigrants. To take care of people that are here illegally. To take care of people that aren't supposed to be here. Let me just wrap your heads around that for a second. If we actually had a secure border, if we actually had some control over who the fuck came into our country, we could cut 26 and a half percent off our deficit. Which is an even bigger deal considering it's deficit spending. Which means we're borrowing that money. Which means we're gonna pay interest on that money. And in 2023 we literally borrowed 451 billion. We're gonna pay interest on it just to support illegals. Thanks Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

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- APA: Trump, D. J. (2024, August 19).  [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_112985986776521050
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