Well, if “we” were deliberately weakening the US, either to destabilize the government in order to being about a radically different system of government, or on

Well, if “we” were deliberately weakening the US, either to destabilize the government in order to being about a radically different system of government, or on behalf of a hostile foreign power (or, perhaps most relevantly, as part of a hybrid movement whose members have a mix of those motivations), then “we” might want to cut a large number of things that would seem nonsensical to cut for people who don’t share that goal.