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The '24 budget was $842 billion.
by ibejoeb 2y ago
The '24 budget was $842 billion.
- bgilroy26 2y agoThe term of the contracts were longer than 1 year
- PaywallBuster 2y ago0.61% with just a few contracts
- supplied_demand 2y agoWere these one-year contracts?
- btucker 2y agoI'm sure PaywallBuster has reviewed these and confirmed they were one-year spending before making their statement.
- josephg 2y agoIt might be a small percentage of the pentagon’s budget. But it’s still $5.1bn of taxpayer money being reigned in here. It’s $13 per person in the country. You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money - from space programs to science funding.
- cma 2y agoThe article doesn't say the length of the contract or really anything about what it was for.
- pjc50 2y ago> from space programs to science funding. ... which have also been randomly cut.
- dagw 2y agoBut it’s still $5.1bn of taxpayer money being reigned in here That's assuming that all those consultants were not providing any value and that they don't need to be replaced by hiring more staff.
- shusson 2y agoWhat if they are providing negative value?
- jghn 2y ago> You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money Or given to billionaires
- 3D30497420 2y agoExactly. Most of these "savings" will be fed into significant tax cuts that are almost certainly going to benefit the rich more than anyone else.
- r00fus 2y agoDOGE is involved - do you think anything is going back to useful programs? More likely they'll just buy more SpaceX and Tesla.
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- pavel_lishin 2y ago> You could do an awful lot of good with that kind of money - from space programs to science funding. We sure could. Will we?
- ajross 2y agoThose are surely the total contract sizes, not yearly billing.
- cma 2y agoDepartment of Veteran's affairs budget was $328.1 billion and should probably be counted along with DoD since it's commitments made for former DoD recruits.