The budget is the policy, stripped of rhetoric. What any government spends money on IS a full and complete expression of its priorities. The rest is circus. W

The budget is the policy, stripped of rhetoric. What any government spends money on IS a full and complete expression of its priorities. The rest is circus. What increased and decreased in the most recent budget bill? That is the full and complete story. If no $$ for open source or open weight model development, then that is not a policy priority, despite any nice words to the contrary.