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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 day ago (35 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He actually claimed 2 trillion.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I knew Elongated Muskrat was a dumbass but I didn't know he also can't do math.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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.

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