The swamp creatures at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have struck again, and this time they’re aiming their faulty calculators directly at President Trump’s historic One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). The Fake News media, predictably parroting the establishment line, are busy sounding alarms over claims that the OBBB will add trillions to our national debt. But let’s be clear—this is nothing but another desperate attempt to smear Trump’s bold, America First agenda.
Here’s the reality: President Trump’s economic policies have always defied the establishment’s tired predictions. Remember the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? The so-called “experts” at the CBO projected sluggish growth, claiming America was doomed to languish in the Obama-Biden era’s economic stagnation. And then what happened? In 2018, our economy surged forward, hitting a robust 2.9% GDP growth, fueled by renewed confidence, booming business investment, and factories humming again across the heartland.
Yet despite this clear lesson, the CBO bureaucrats remain stuck in their outdated Keynesian mindset, ignoring real-world results and stubbornly clinging to their static scoring models. These models fail to grasp that when you unleash American ingenuity by cutting taxes, reducing regulations, securing our borders, and getting tough on trade, the economy doesn’t merely tick upward—it roars back to life.
The CBO’s latest hit-job on Trump’s OBBB relies on precisely these flawed assumptions. Their initial analysis, with its laughably pessimistic growth projections of just 1.8%, claimed the bill would pile on $3.9 trillion to the national debt over a decade. And when critics rightly pointed out the glaring holes in their methods—especially their refusal to factor in dynamic growth effects and the massive revenue from Trump’s strategic tariffs—the CBO scrambled to provide a “dynamic” estimate. Yet even this “corrected” version was rigged from the start, frontloading costs to artificially inflate debt and forecasting imaginary interest rate spikes that conveniently erased projected growth.
Exhibit A: The Trump 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. I was there when the CBO confidently projected a return to a sleepy Obama-Biden “new normal” 1.8–2.0% trend growth. But what actually happened?
In 2018, real GDP roared ahead at 2.9%. Business investment surged. Hundreds of billions in overseas profits came home. Small businesses and consumers finally felt like Washington had their backs – and they responded by spending, investing, and hiring. All of this completely blindsided the bean counters at CBO, who missed the wave of innovation and confidence that Trump’s policies ignited.
The truth, as President Trump has proven once before, is that a robust, pro-growth economic agenda doesn’t increase the debt—it reduces it. Trump’s OBBB is precisely engineered to ignite job creation and wage increases for working families, while simultaneously funding critical America First priorities like border security and national defense. Moreover, by accelerating deportations of millions of illegal aliens undermining American jobs and wages, the bill further boosts prosperity for everyday citizens.
When you accurately account for Trump’s strategic tariffs—expected to generate an impressive $2.8 trillion over the coming decade—and when you factor in the economic boom triggered by permanent tax cuts and deregulation, the OBBB emerges not as a debt driver, but as a powerful engine of fiscal responsibility. Had the CBO bothered to conduct an intellectually honest analysis, they would’ve projected a multi-trillion-dollar surplus—not deficits.
It’s time we stopped allowing unelected bureaucrats and biased media outlets to dictate America’s economic future. The Trump administration has consistently delivered results that defy the old establishment rules—proving that conservative, America First principles aren’t just politically popular, they’re economically sound.
So when the media tries to scare you into believing Trump’s OBBB is fiscally irresponsible, remember the lessons of the past. Remember that Trump’s policies have consistently sparked growth, jobs, higher wages, and yes—higher revenues. Trump’s America First agenda is about unleashing the full power of American workers and businesses, not about playing cynical games with bureaucratic forecasts.
With the OBBB, President Trump is poised once again to prove the naysayers wrong. Rather than saddling the nation with debt, this plan will restore fiscal responsibility, rebuild America’s manufacturing base, secure our borders, and put more money back into the pockets of everyday Americans. The swamp may not like it, but the American people sure will.
