As management of debt becomes more difficult, Deutsche Bank warns of American economy

Deutsche Bank, one of the most renowned economic/fiscal analysts in the world, has offered its legitimate position on the state of the economy as the debt situation continues.

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The current administration led by the fiscally conservative Trump presidency has emphasized budget reductions in an effort to reduce the deficit and subsequently work towards minimizing the progression of the national debt. Namely, the president created the temporary governmental service known as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), in which it would find instances of "fraud" or "wasteful spending" in the government. Led by Elon Musk and previously Vivek Ramaswamy, the agency waged conflicts with spending in regards to foreign aid, social security, healthcare, and most notably the Department of Education, which they successfully dissolved as a federally-funded organization. Yet, the incumbent administration has also levied high tariffs and proposed drastically reduced taxes which would not only reverse the gains made by DOGE's "savings" but actually add more to the deficit, contrary to what Republicans campaigned for in 2024. Even President Trump himself, realizing this as a setback, expressed interest in increasing taxes on the highest earning Americans, although this policy has yet to be announced.

Deutsche Bank, amid fiscal fears with the national budget, made a statement through their spokesperson Jim Reid, stated on Fortune, "Yesterday felt like we were somewhere along the line of a 'death by a thousand cuts' with regards to the U.S. fiscal situation. Hard to know where in that thousand we are but probably much nearer a thousand than at zero even as yesterday saw an initial sell-off reverse as the session went on." Reid added, "At the end of the day the loss of the final U.S. triple-A rating late on Friday night doesn’t change anything much immediately but it keeps the drip, drip, drip of poor fiscal news building up against the debt sustainability dam in the background."

This warnings, although quite unfavorable, is valid in that the current administration's policies are exacerbating the federal deficit. With Trump now responsible for tackling the debt ceiling situation brought forth by Joe Biden's Congress in late-2024, the new administration has the greatest authority in taking on the debt crisis in the nation's modern history, but instead of actually attempting to remedy the situation, it is only making it worse, possibly bringing it to the point that it becomes irreversible. This would take the form of higher interest payments that would result from more borrowing to sustain the large budget deficit, which would only get higher and higher in the immediate future. The president needs to implement policies now to remedy the situation, as if it continues, it will become too big to destroy.