The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down

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• Batman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s 1 billion dollars. Literally 3$ per person.

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  • barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a lot. And it’s $3 that I don’t have to give away.

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And it’s going to our childrens future.

      I’d happily pay that $3.

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    • Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait until you learn about taxes

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re giving it away straight to their pockets, because the next step is to funnel all that money to their personal projects

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    • hactar42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah because fuck kids, especially ones with special needs, I want to keep my $3

      /s obviously

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    • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’ll give it to Musk instead. If past behaviour is any indication, Republicans will actually raise the taxes for anyone except the top 5 percentile.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hope you’re a millionaire because there’s going to be tax cuts for the rich so the plebs can keep paying the same or more, it’s almost guaranteed.

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• LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When is ol musk going to get around to touching up the military?

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hear the government is funneling billions to some sort of satellite internet thing that wouldn’t be economically viable without those subsidies. Maybe they should look into that waste.

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s already wasted half of it:

  independent.co.uk/…/usaid-inspector-fired-trump-f…

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn.

    Tldr: $500 million worth of food spoiled after USAID freeze.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol don’t be fooled this costs way more than any “savings”. And it’s factually illegal.

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  • barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And it’s factually illegal.

    Then no reason to be upset. It’ll just get overturned then, right?

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    • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If someone torches your house down but your insurance pays out it’s all good, right?

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Overturned by whom? The Trump admin already stated that the courts have no right to judge anything they do.

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