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This will simply be an opportunity to further their political aims by de-funding things they don’t like: FBI investigated trump for illegally retaining secret r
by more_corn 2y ago
This will simply be an opportunity to further their political aims by de-funding things they don’t like:
FBI investigated trump for illegally retaining secret records. I guarantee there will be a review of their funding.
EPA gets in elons way by requiring that he not poison wildlife and people. That agency will be axed or gutted or beheaded.
Starve the beast has been a republican strategy for decades. It doesn’t mean lower spending or financial prudence. It means starve the government programs you don’t like because they conflict with your ideology.
Note that trillions of dollars of spending on weapon systems is off the table.
Things like the Abrams tanks the army doesn’t want or need.
The trillion dollar boondoggle of the f35
1.7 trillion to upgrade nuclear weapon systems (the only purpose of which is to eliminate all human life)
This will be the biggest shit-show our country has ever seen. It’ll be an austerity program run by insane ideologues. We’ll be luck if it’s just a joke. But it’ll probably lead to a recession by July of 2025.