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It's not a bold prediction. DOGE cut all the easier stuff first -- such as firing employees on probationary status, shuttering USAID. To achieve any meaningful
by insane_dreamer 2y ago
It's not a bold prediction.
DOGE cut all the easier stuff first -- such as firing employees on probationary status, shuttering USAID. To achieve any meaningful cuts they have to gut Social Security/Medicare, Medicaid or the Military. SS/Medicare is off limits. Cutting Medicaid would not only break Trump's promise to "not touch Medicaid", but would directly hit his prime voter base. And cutting the Military won't be allowed by Congress (who as I mentioned, wants to raise, not lower, the defense budget).
- onemoresoop 2y agoHe already got their votes, I doubt he would really care about his voters now, especially in his second term.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoBut Congress does -- and they're the ones who set the budget, not POTUS. Having said that, of the three, Medicaid is the most likely to get cut and in fact the GOP is already proposing this, which is abominable.
- Whoppertime 2y agoHe could touch social security/Medicare or Medicaid by purging the rolls of the deceased https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musk-says-millions-social-security-database-between-ages-100-159 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musk-says-millions-soc... Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159. If they purged millions of 120-160 year olds from the social security database and limited it to only people who were currently alive they could make progress