Despite Trump's promised cuts, the United States spent around 220 billion dollars more in the first 100 days than in the previous year

Despite the promises to reduce the expenditure during the campaign and its first months in office, President TrumpThe Federal Government spent around 220 billion dollars more in its first 100 days than in the same period last year.

In fact, the government now spends more every day than in nine of the past 10 years. The exception: 2021 when the government was Expose trillions to fight against the Coronavirus pandemic and prevent an economic catastrophe.

CBS News analyzed the daily finance reports of the Ministry of Finance to pursue the money that returned to office every day since Mr. Trump's return. Here is a breakdown of what we have found.

Some may be wondering how this is possible in view of the top-class announcements of layoffs, canceled contracts, the elimination of the fight against fraud by Mr. Trump and the Elon Muschus Efficiency of the government's Ministry and belts about the administration.

The answer is partly in the basics of the government's budget in relation medical care.

The rest of the answer is politics. The conservative basis that Mr. Trump and the Republican majorities have chosen in the congress cannot support the other largest share of federal expenditure, the operations of the US military and the care of veterans.

Take a look at some of the areas that take the greatest expenses and the greatest increases Mr. Trumps first 100 days Compared to the same period in previous years.

According to our analysis of the daily reports of the Ministry of Finance on accounts, many of the largest continuing increasing costs are direct payments to the military and seniors.

The habit of the federal government to spend more money than it accepts State debt is growing. In combination with higher interest rates, the daily price for paying the interest for debts is up to. The amount in the past three months is about twice as high as the amount that was paid only three years earlier.

And the daily payments for bonds and other securities that occur in the daily declaration of the Ministry of Finance only cover cash interest rates that were paid to debt owners. There are other elements of the government's debt obligations that only contribute to the costs.

One possibility of how the Trump administration can influence the budget is the civil workforce, and that was a focus of musk and Doge over redundancies And Buyout. But there are many of these attempts legal challenges That was delayed or vice versa.

Despite the announced reduction of employees, one of the largest areas of increasing expenditure remains federal salaries at the beginning of the second term of office of Mr. Trump. The workers received an increase of 2%when the then President Biden signed an executive regulation two days before Christmas, a step that was permitted due to the inactivity of the congress in relation to permanent federal budget budget.

Together, it has been the military and veteran, social, medical, medical and debt payments that drive the lion's share of federal expenses in the past decade. In the last full financial year, they made up almost two thirds of the federal government's expenditure. This breakdown has hardly changed in the past decade.

The vast majority of the experiment that has so far been cut by Doge Foreign helpThe Educational department and grants too Colleges and universities.

“If the savings are rather small and the pain is high, Dogy will be liability,” said Nat Malkus, Senior Fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, who pursues DOGE's work.

“If you really want to lower the federal expenditure, you have to restrict the programs in which the lion's share of money is. These are Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, and we spend a lot of money on interest,” said Malkus.

In some agencies and output categories there are some significant one -year expenses.

Here is a look at some of the biggest reductions since Mr. Trump's office.

“The financial year ends on September 30th. There are many more years, so let's see where we are at the end of the year,” said Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff of the White House.

A look at the announced Doge cuts

The Musks Doge team has focused on many minor editions between federal programs.

The Doge website claims that the Task Force has already saved so much with $ 160 billion between cancellation of grants, contracts and lease and cuts to the federal employees. On his “”Wall of the receipts“Site Online reports the office about the greatest reductions from the Ministry of Health and Human Services so far, General Services Administration, Ministry of Education, Department of Labor and Office for Personnel Management.

Only about 60 billion US dollars or less than 40%of these alleged savings are listed on the online wall of the receipts of the office. Even these elementizations contained errors And Lax documentation.

In his work at the American Enterprise Institute, Malkus said that his review indicates that the savings are rather around 80 billion US dollars.

Even the 160 billion US dollars, which were previously saved by Doge, would be tiny in the context of the larger federal budget and the public debt.

According to CBS News Analysis of financial reports, the administration has already spent around 220 billion US dollars more than three months in just more than three months.

The announced savings correspond to less than 2% of the total national budget of one year. This is similar to a family with 10,000 US dollars for monthly expenses that cut their invoices by 200 US dollars per month.

The supporters of the administration 'cost reduction have marked it as necessary, exterminated and decorated and take a bite from the public debt. However, the Ministry of Finance reports that the debts will be 36 trillion dollars from this week.

The savings advertised by Doge -savings of 160 billion US dollars is about 0.5% of the debt, so that the reduction in the efforts of Doge with a family with 10,000 US dollars would be with credit card credit, which they would repay for $ 50.

An independent analysis of the partnership for public service The cuts of Doge may have cost taxpayers 135 million US dollars.

Musk said recently His work with Doge runs off.

Discover the output files yourself

You can explore the government's daily account books yourself. We have isolated the money issued by the category in the first few months of the Trump management compared to the same period in the past 10 years.

You can look down for agencies or output categories to see the change over time and how much or less the Trump management is issued in these first 100 days. We have limited the table to agencies and categories with at least 100 million US dollars since January 20, 2025.

Taylor Johnston contributed to this report.