President Trump's multi-trillion-dollar tax relief package is engendering trenchant criticism, with stakeholders across the ideological spectrum—from Republican senators and global investors to the heterodox Elon Musk—expressing grave reservations regarding its potential to exacerbate the burgeoning federal debt and questioning its purported deficit-neutrality. The White House, however, refutes these concerns, positing that the conjoined effect of tax reductions and attendant spending cuts—projected to augment the national debt by over $5 trillion within the decade—will catalyse sufficient economic dynamism to effect a relative reduction in the deficit; this assertion is met with widespread scepticism among economists, who doubt the plan's capacity to generate the requisite growth to offset the escalating indebtedness, particularly given the impending sunset of these fiscal measures in 2028, which presents a Gordian knot for future legislative bodies; furthermore, the White House's reliance on tariff revenues to mitigate the burgeoning deficits has been thrown into considerable doubt by recent juridical pronouncements.