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From the article it sounds like the cost is $15.5m? > The memo ordering the publication’s dissolution claims the administration has the authority to make this
by mcintyre1994 6y ago
From the article it sounds like the cost is $15.5m?
> The memo ordering the publication’s dissolution claims the administration has the authority to make this move under the president’s fiscal year 2021 defense department budget request. It zeroed out the $15.5 million annual subsidy for Stars and Stripes.
> The eagerness to kill Stars and Stripes is hard to fathom. As the senators note in their letter to Esper, the $15.5 million saved by eliminating the newspaper’s subsidy would have a “negligible impact” on the Pentagon’s $700 billion budget.
- strombye 6y agoAnd you’re gonna fall for that as the reason? And just ignore the administration’s long running campaign to undermine journalists Whenever possible?
- pwinnski 6y agoI think this is a case in which words don't properly convey the scale at hand. $15.5 million and $700 billion might better be said as $15.5 million and $700,000.0 million.