Trump’s spending outpaces Biden’s as government costs soar

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. government spent more during President Donald Trump’s first month in office than it did during the same period a year ago, in a sign his cost-slashing effort has yet to reduce the nation’s heavy fiscal obligations, a Reuters analysis of federal data shows. Trump has frozen billions of dollars in foreign aid and fired more than 20,000 federal workers since he returned to power last month. His budget-cutting point person, tech billionaire Elon Musk, claims to have saved tens of billions of dollars.

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