Trump asked if a government shutdown will happen this week

Let's clean house , shut it down and give all poor unemployed $2000 per month universal income

He been spying for four years burning hate in him for Obama he one it's all been over birthday there to many important decisions to make and he not up to job..thank Stars for that 🌏🌚🌝🌛🌎🌟🌟⭐⭐🌙🌜🌛🌟🌟☀️🌑🌒🌘🌗🌖🌔🌟✨☀️🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌪️🌪️🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦚🦚🐧🐧🦃🦃🍳🥞🍇🧂🪩💎💎💎💰💰💰💸💵💵⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️🪙💳💄👗👗💍👑👑👑👑🧳🔐🔐🔐🔐🔐🔓🔒🔒🔓🔑🔑🔑🗝️🗝️🗝️🔐🔑🗝️🔓🔒🗽🗽🗽🗽🗼🗼🗼🛸🛸🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚢🚢🚢🚢🚡🚡🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢and they took hafe boats off ship sayings it wasn't sink but did 💤💤💤🕳️🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🕳️🕳️👅🫦👄💋👁️👁️👁️👀👀👀🪺🪺🪺🪺🪹🪹🪹🪹🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️four long years

He sneaky why he ask that??????

No. The GOP is destroying the country. Trump and musk need to be jailed.

Well money is tight in the USA. I think as long as he doesn't severly target student funding, housing, passports, and severe situations, most people won't care. The government has been shut down before. All that happened: people stayed in doors, went to state or city facilities, traveled abroad, etc.

Trump think for what you just said before the elections. The easy way just change your way. It that the way that American people wanted. No your making something to make American suffer. Humble your self. And do the best you can for American people and their families. Your families are suffer too. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

If it goes shuts down just pay the bill and it will come back on, that’s what I do with my electric bill

Big Corporations Paid Shockingly Little In Taxes Last Year

February 7, 2024

New Data Reveal 5 Huge Firms—GE, GM, Meta, Tesla & T-Mobile—Paid Super Low Rates Or Even Got Refunds Despite Billions in Profits

WASHINGTON – Some of America’s marquee corporations with billions in profits each—General Electric, General Motors, Meta (owner of Facebook), Tesla and T-Mobile—paid little in federal income taxes last year and in some cases even got big refunds, according to a new analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF). Together the five companies earned over $70 billion in profits yet paid an effective average tax rate of just 6.9%, even as several of them provided wealthy shareholders with stock buybacks. The statutory corporate tax rate is 21%; in a recent year, a typical American family paid 13.6%.

“Massive American corporations are rolling in dough but contributing very little of it back to the society that helps make their success possible,” said David Kass, ATF’s executive director. “The share of federal revenue from corporate taxes had been declining for years. The 2017 Trump-GOP tax law made the situation worse by slashing the corporate tax rate by three-fifths and failing to close loopholes that let big firms shift profits and ship jobs offshore. When big corporations dodge their fair share of taxes, we get some combination of three bad results: working families pay more, vital public services are cut, or the deficit explodes.”

Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis

General Electric earned nearly $7 billion in 2023, yet instead of paying any federal income tax on those profits they got a refund of $423 million. Of the four firms that paid any taxes, Meta paid the highest rate at 11.5%, but that was just barely more than half the statutory rate. The two automakers, GM and Tesla, paid only 4.1% and 1.5%, respectively. T-Mobile paid a paltry 0.4% in federal taxes.

While T-Mobile failed to pay practically anything in federal income taxes last year, it still managed to spend plenty of money on stock buybacks in 2023, repurchasing over $13 billion of its own shares to benefit rich shareholders. Stock buybacks increase the value of shares remaining in investor hands. It’s a tax-free gift to these shareholders, who are overwhelmingly wealthy.

Meta spent four times more on buybacks—nearly $20 billion worth—than it paid in taxes. GM’s $11 billion in share repurchases was more than 40 times as much as it paid in taxes.

GE, GM and T-Mobile collectively spent almost $2 billion on another form of shareholder reward: cash dividends. The top base tax rate on dividends and the capital gains that result from buybacks is about half the top rate on earned income from wages (20% vs. 37%).

In addition to the reduced tax rate they’ve enjoyed since 2017, loopholes and special breaks contribute to the low or nonexistent taxes paid by many of America’s largest corporations. ATF’s analysis is based on reports filed annually with the federal government by public companies.

this is why we have a growing deficit… not gov't workers

They need to stop this blame each other game! It's like the American don't exist! It's all about fighting each other for power and authority! This has been going on for years, it's all about who had the power and authority, not the American people.

He blames his tanking of the great economy that Biden left him so this is not surprising

The USA deserves what they get from that clown. They voted him in say you’re stuck with that clown.