Numbers wizard for @SenateBudget: tax nerd, budget wonk. Formerly at @BudgetHawks & @MoneyInPolitics. In DC for now, permanent Montanan. Thoughts are my own.
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Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
🧵Donald Trump is a con man.
From his time on the campaign trail to present day, he continues to tell the American people lie after lie.
These are 11 of his most harmful, costly broken promises. budget.senate.gov/ranking-me…
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
JD Vance scapegoating immigrants as usual. Illegal immigrants contribute $26 billion annually in Social Security taxes. Yet they are ineligible for benefits and no investigation has turned up widespread fraudulent Social Security benefits collected by them.
.@VP: "If you are encouraging illegal aliens to sign up for Social Security and steal Social Security benefits, you're not protecting Social Security, you're destroying it — so cut that shit out and be honest about your intentions." 💯
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
Once again, Trump and Vought have violated the law by sending Congress more illegal pocket rescissions. Republicans need to stand up to Trump and affirm that cancelling funding Congress has approved is ILLEGAL.
The law is not a suggestion, and the President is not a king.
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
🚨These numbers are a FIVE-ALARM fire for every member of Congress: a 1% jump in interest rates adds $39 TRILLION to our national debt.
But there's a path forward—it starts with reversing Republicans’ tax breaks for billionaires.
budget.senate.gov/ranking-me…
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
Two points here:
1.) IRA prescription drug provisions not saving as much as projected is mostly the result of Medicare Part D reforms on stuff like coinsurance costing more than projected as opposed to, say, drug negotiations not working.
(Author of this makes this clear btw)
It turns out the 2022 IRA is saving us nothing on Medicare and has ended up with Part D drug spending growth soaring past the CBO estimate:
city-journal.org/article/med…
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
He's not kidding. Trump has a pattern of withholding federal funding based on states that did or didn't vote for Republicans.
It's all right here:
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
This is egregiously wrong--it's trying to pass off a values choice as a mathematical certainty.
You absolutely can fix Social Security's shortfall w/ payroll tax increases alone. Whether you *should* is something people w/ different values can debate, but the headline is false.
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
Despite their lectures on fiscal responsibility, Republicans repeatedly ran up debt with endless wars and tax cuts for the rich.
Stabilizing our debt is an essential step to investing in what families really want: housing, health care, and education.
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
The deficit is essentially tied for 2nd as the Republicans' worst issue after health care.
It seems like a $4.5 trillion tax cut partially financed by cuts to health care/SNAP and partially financed by deficits with interest rates now soaring was a bad idea.
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
Let’s review.
In February 2025 Trump floated $5,000 DOGE dividends. Didn’t happen.
In November 2025, he said we’d be getting $2,000 tariff dividends. Didn’t happen.
Now in September 2026 we’re being promised another $5,000 tariff dividend. Not gonna happen.
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
In April, Russ Vought promised to follow the law and provide debt and deficit projections in OMB’s mid-session review.
The review is out, but the projections are nowhere to be found.
He doesn’t want to confirm what we already know: Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill blew up the deficit.
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
NEW OP-ED from @SenJeffMerkley: We need to get serious about getting our deficits under control.
Doing so means that we will be able to grow our economy, invest for the future and reduce costs for families by investing in the programs they need to thrive.
ms.now/opinion/debt-deficit-…
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
IRS lost 27% of its exam staff from FY 2024-FY 2025
Revenue decreased 25%
An obvious fact: If you get rid of auditors, you raise less money from audits.
Winners are tax cheats, losers are those who are playing by the rules
tigta.gov/sites/default/file…
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
The $40 trillion national debt threatens the whole economy. But a fix is possible says @SenJeffMerkley of @SenateBudget
1. fix social security's finances (50%)
2. repeal Trump tax cuts (25%)
3. cut excessive spending (25%)
ms.now/opinion/debt-deficit-…
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
Can't really believe I'm retweeting Massie but he his right about this. The OBBB and the TCJA before that (and the Bush Tax Cuts before that) are prime causes of the fiscal gap. Can't (or shouldn't) very well vote for those and then complain when debt rises.
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
$40 trillion is a staggering milestone, but it didn’t happen by accident. Republican presidents have repeatedly chosen to borrow for large tax cuts and major military commitments rather than pay for them. /1
! The US debt is now $40 trillion.
Here is a clear look at what that means, how much that is and how we got here.
Just 5 minutes - to understand a major, often overlooked issue.
pbs.org/newshour/show/nation…
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
Tyler Evilsizer retweeted
If we want to get control of the national debt, we must end the Republican strategy of passing massive tax breaks for billionaires and spending trillions on forever wars.
