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Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign and his voters believed him. If democracy worked, he would be held accountable for this enormous bait-and-switc
by throwworhtthrow 2y ago
Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign and his voters believed him. If democracy worked, he would be held accountable for this enormous bait-and-switch.
> root out corruption and waste, fraud, and abuse
That is not what they are doing by most accounts.
- monero-xmr 2y ago[flagged]
- trescenzi 2y agoPart of the difficulty of arguing about this is that the effectiveness is very clearly not there. The following is from treasury.gov[1]: 21 % Social Security 15 % National Defense 14 % Health 13 % Net Interest 13 % Medicare 9 % Income Security 6 % Veterans Benefits and Services 3 % Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 2 % Natural Resources and Environment 2 % Transportation 2 % Other To get the level of cuts they want they cannot legally do it without Congress. [1]: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
- jimmydoe 2y agoTrump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign, is just a performance appreciated by his voters, as many of his voters believed “be a racist but don’t say it”. The same reason that one of the DOGE youth got fired, not because he is a racist, but because his racism remark got caught.