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Defense, social security, Medicaid should all have high scrutiny, but that would be unpopular so neither party will touch those; thus, serious deficit reduction
by umvi 2y ago
Defense, social security, Medicaid should all have high scrutiny, but that would be unpopular so neither party will touch those; thus, serious deficit reduction won't happen because doing so requires making unpopular decisions
- insane_dreamer 2y agodefense, yes social security and medicaid, absolutely not (scrutiny, fine; cuts, no)
- umvi 2y agosocial security/labor and medicaid/health are the biggest pieces of the pie in terms of budget though. You could cut defense to zero and still have a deficit > ~1T. Clearly they are not sustainable in their current state.