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🗓️ 23 May 2025
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Let's talk about Trump and 1 Trillion in economic damage....
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0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
0:04.0 | So today, we're going to talk about Trump and one trillion in economic damage. |
0:11.0 | Energy innovation policy and technology is mainly, as you might guess, an energy policy think tank. |
0:18.0 | It's nonpartisan. |
0:20.0 | They did some modeling and analysis of the one |
0:22.9 | big beautiful bill as written. It's quite the read. The short version is more than a trillion |
0:29.5 | dollars in economic damage to the U.S. over the window of the reconciliation package. But there's |
0:36.5 | way more. So stick around. In true YouTube style, |
0:40.5 | the biggest takeaway is at the end. Let's hit the big numbers and then get to the why. From |
0:47.3 | 2026 to 2034, which is the window of time covered by the reconciliation package, the US GDP will decrease cumulatively by $1.1 trillion. |
1:00.3 | It causes the loss of 830,000 jobs by 2030. |
1:06.0 | Because of the loss of new energy production, wholesale energy prices will increase by 50% |
1:13.0 | by 2035. |
1:15.8 | Cumulative annual consumer energy costs increase more than $16 billion in 2030 and more than |
1:22.0 | $33 billion by 2035. |
1:25.4 | So those are the big takeaways. but the details are always really important. |
1:31.4 | Let's start by remembering that to deal with all the increased deficit spending and additional |
1:36.7 | debt, they'll cause with the package, the Republicans figured revenue projections at a 3% |
1:44.1 | increase in the GDP. |
1:46.7 | Analysts were skeptical of that to begin with, because excluding one of Biden's years, |
1:52.3 | the U.S. hasn't broken a 3% GDP increase since the Bush era. |
1:58.0 | Throwing this analysis in, there's basically zero chance they'll hit that number. That's important |
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