Letters to the Editor: DOGE’s purported savings have nothing on what more tax cuts could add to the deficit

To the editor: Contributing writer Josh Hammer takes a well-worn page from the right-wing playbook in his comments on the U.S. government’s fiscal challenges ( “DOGE was a good start. Trump needs to push further for real fiscal change,” May 30). He cherry-picks seemingly indefensible government expenditures and uses them to mischaracterize the Department of Government Efficiency cuts that already are damaging government services and federally funded scientific research. The $175 billion of purported cuts he ballyhoos amount to less than 5% of the $4 trillion (a median of the $3 trillion to $5 trillion estimates) that could be added to the national deficit if President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts are extended.

Why doesn’t Hammer even mention the revenue side of the deficit equation? Advocat