• @GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz
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    1049 hours ago

    In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he’ll be able to reduce the budget by

    • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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      348 hours ago

      Regardless, he’ll claim he cut 500 bajillion dollars no matter what he ends up doing

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          34 hours ago

          He’ll cut 2 trillion out of the general budget, redirect it into his own holdings, and demand praise for his genius leadership. Oh, and he may or may not actually eliminate some programs along the way.

        • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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          55 hours ago

          No no, you don’t understand. This is what people have actually been asking for this whole time. Nobody wanted the budget randomly cut, they wanted it distributed

    • @21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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      97 hours ago

      The goal’s more about cutting all the science funding than reducing spending. These are people who bitch about Ukraine when they don’t even plan on spending that money on something else they’re just guzzling Russian propaganda.

        • @MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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          197 hours ago

          I don’t think he even attempted to do math. Someone asked him about it and said what the current budget was, and he just rectally sourced 2 trillion. I assume he said that because it’s big enough to sound huge, but less than half of spending so people don’t panic that everything will be cut.

          It’s meaningless bullshit until he actually says specifically what will be cut. Republicans have been claiming they can cut huge chunks of spending for years, but it never materializes. They only know how cut government income without paying for it.

          • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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            76 hours ago

            Still waiting for that ACA replacement promised on week 1 of trump’s presidency. It was supposed to be so easy. Now we’re 8 years out and they have “concepts of a plan”.

            • @MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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              16 hours ago

              I’m sure with control over all government branches again they’ll have the ACA completely replaced in no time. For real this time.

              • @chaogomu@lemmy.world
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                14 hours ago

                The plan is to repeal it first, and then figure out what to do from there.

                Probably whatever makes the most money for insurance companies.