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There was just the longest federal shutdown in history exactly because the Republicans were trying to control healthcare spending. You can't claim they aren't t
by qcnguy 11mo ago
There was just the longest federal shutdown in history exactly because the Republicans were trying to control healthcare spending. You can't claim they aren't trying to touch the big ticket items.
They theorize that the ICE funding will be net revenue positive in the end.
They've also done big tax rises (tariffs), again, partly to try and get the debt under control.
You can't claim DOGE is somehow inconsistent or they're chickening out of fights over spending. They are doing what they can within the party allocations the voters gave them.
- spwa4 11mo agoMusk/DOGE started out by claiming they could save $2 trillion of the federal budget. They quickly backpedaled to $1 trillion and kept downscaling it, until now they're claiming less than $160 billion. Independent reports claim it is closer to MINUS $200 to $300 billion (as in Musk/DOGE increased federal spending rather than save anything at all). I would call this a pretty fucking big inconsistency. If you backpedal on your promises 100% I would call that inconsistent. Musk/DOGE backpedaled on their promise 92%, and according to independent observers 115%. Whichever of those 2 figures is true, I would call it pretty damn fucking inconsistent ...