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GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TheDoctor@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now if he could start making cuts to the military…

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How dare you threaten the poor defense contractors.

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    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      also, entire military is just under 1tn - all of it, including completely nonmovable things like nuclear silos and submarines. ripping enough copper from the walls to get 2tn would involve massive cuts to social security and healthcare, and maybe education. but nooo heavens forbid that progressive tax on income be introduced

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The DoD itself spent $820B in 2023. To get over $1T, you also have to include veterans benefits, like the VA hospital system.

        The full bill for Vietnam started coming 20 years after the fact as all those veterans got older and started heavily using the benefits they were promised. From the start of the War on Terror, we’re about at that same point right now. So unless the plan is to rug pull those benefits from people who really need them, then there’s going to be a huge bill coming that no amount of efficiency trimming can ignore.

        If Democrats did the rug pull, Republicans would cry bloody murder. If Trump did it, they will cheer him on while veterans suffer.

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    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i, for one, would like to see more air defense assets going to Ukraine

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      • ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Genuinely why bother at this point

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I, for two, would like to see the same

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• BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Regardless, he’ll claim he cut 500 bajillion dollars no matter what he ends up doing

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  • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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      • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sadly we already know it will be distributed to the friends of the 1%

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He actually claimed 2 trillion.

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  • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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”.

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• 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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