$40 billion dollars could have fed a lot of people.... In fact if you gave every single American $1 million it would come nowhere near 40 billion just think of that everyone can have $1 million dollars and it would come nowhere near 40 billion how many people in the United States of America.... Estimated 342.8 million people live in the United States of America ...... The United States could have saved 39,657,200,000 basically he could have saved the taxpayer 39 billion dollars but instead of giving to help the American people the American people are going to owe $40 billion dollars I thought Donald Trump was supposed to cut spending in the United States government well they cut spending all right now they just are adding to it by the time this is all said and done it's going to be way worse than it was when they first started gutting federal spending