• @[email protected]
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    1132 months ago

    In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he’ll be able to reduce the budget by

      • @[email protected]
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        282 months ago

        My bet is that if he expects to cut 2 trillion, he will end up increasing the budget by 4 trillion.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          No no, you don’t understand. This is what people have actually been asking for this whole time. Nobody wanted the budget randomly cut, they wanted it distributed

        • @Anticorp
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          42 months ago

          He’ll cut 2 trillion out of the general budget, redirect it into his own holdings, and demand praise for his genius leadership. Oh, and he may or may not actually eliminate some programs along the way.

      • @Jumpingspiderman
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        162 months ago

        I knew Elongated Muskrat was a dumbass but I didn’t know he also can’t do math.

        • @MirthfulAlembic
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          232 months ago

          I don’t think he even attempted to do math. Someone asked him about it and said what the current budget was, and he just rectally sourced 2 trillion. I assume he said that because it’s big enough to sound huge, but less than half of spending so people don’t panic that everything will be cut.

          It’s meaningless bullshit until he actually says specifically what will be cut. Republicans have been claiming they can cut huge chunks of spending for years, but it never materializes. They only know how cut government income without paying for it.

          • @Bytemeister
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            72 months ago

            Still waiting for that ACA replacement promised on week 1 of trump’s presidency. It was supposed to be so easy. Now we’re 8 years out and they have “concepts of a plan”.

            • @MirthfulAlembic
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              12 months ago

              I’m sure with control over all government branches again they’ll have the ACA completely replaced in no time. For real this time.

              • @chaogomu
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                12 months ago

                The plan is to repeal it first, and then figure out what to do from there.

                Probably whatever makes the most money for insurance companies.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      The goal’s more about cutting all the science funding than reducing spending. These are people who bitch about Ukraine when they don’t even plan on spending that money on something else they’re just guzzling Russian propaganda.