03/04/25 Out of Time

Out of Time Part 3 of many A Fox News princess claimed that president Trump was playing 4-dimentional chess while others were playing checkers. I do not know that I would take it that far but I get her point. There is the main thrust of the administration headed by Elon Musk and DOGE that is forging ahead attempting to get in front of what is a budget crisis. And then there are many subsidiary battles going on advancing his larger agenda. It is hard to tell sometimes which is the main attack and which is the diversion in the others. Much of it is intertwined. For example, Trumps trade, immigration and tax policies all run either parallel or are integrated into the budget emergency.   The US has a near $2 trillion shortfall between revenue and spending. Some of that was the result of the 2017 Trump tax cuts. Technically he is responsible for a share of the fiscal mess. I don’t think that anyone wants to let the tax cuts in place sunset as they are scheduled to do. I think doing so would mean immediate recession. They are now baked in. “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated…