2022 - $1.049 trillion

Trump's first budget projected a $488 billion deficit for fiscal 2020.



Two years later, his latest budget projects a $1.101 Trillion deficit



What happened?



Revenue is $337B LESS than he had projected (Tax cuts!)

Spending is $276B HIGHER



= Extra $613B red ink — Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 11, 2019

The higher deficit figures come even as the White House projected a growing amount of revenues coming in for Uncle Sam as a result of the 2017 GOP tax cut plan, as officials said the problem is not taxes, but the level of government spending.

'We don't think the tax cuts are going to lead to anything other than economic growth over the next ten years," a senior White House official told reporters on Monday morning.

After revenues were basically flat from 2017 to 2018, the official predicted the feds would see growth of 6 percent in money coming into the Treasury in 2020, as compared to 2019.

Part of the President’s 2020 budget plan would make the GOP tax cut permanent for individuals - the business part of that tax package was permanent, but the income tax cuts and other items impacting individual taxpayers end in 2025.

Still, for the President - and his chief aides - the big problem is spending, not tax revenues, as the White House said the 2020 budget was a ‘fiscally responsible and pro-American budget.’

President Trump’s budget:



-Funds the border security wall

-Cuts wasteful government spending

-Supports our military

-ACTUALLY GETS TO BALANCE#DoWhatWeSaid — Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) March 11, 2019

While GOP supporters of the President like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) touted today’s budget plan - the declaration that the Trump budget will result in a balanced budget won’t be happening anytime soon.

In the next ten years, the 2020 Trump budget estimates that another $7.2 trillion would be added in deficits, pushing the national debt towards the $30 trillion mark.

"Under reasonable economic assumptions, we find it would add about $10.5 trillion to the national debt over 10 years," said the watchdog group, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

“It's quite an achievement for the President's budget to have fantastical economic assumptions, massive & unprecedented cuts to domestic discretionary spending, and *still* manage to end up with trillion dollar deficits for the next four years,” tweeted Shaki Akabas, an economic expert at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.