Total spending under Trump nearly doubled. New programs filled Washington with more bureaucrats.
by John Stossel
Reason.com
Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp!”
The “swamp” is the permanent Washington bureaucracy working to perpetuate itself.
In 2020, then-President Trump said he was succeeding: “We’re draining the Washington swamp!”
But it’s not true.
“He made government bigger,” Economist Ed Stringham says in my new video. ‘That’s going in the wrong direction. Looking through a list of agencies, every single one I could see, there were more employees after his presidency than before.”
Trump added almost 2 million jobs to the federal workforce.