Re: House Republicans Give Trump the Finger

JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:28:19 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 

Musk

 
He doesn't understand the consequences of cutting this/that.

   In any case, the Grace commission's failure taught everyone serious
   about the budget, liberal or conservative, an important lesson:
   Anyone who proposes saving lots of taxpayer money by eliminating
   "waste, fraud and abuse" should be ignored, because the very
   use of the phrase shows that they have no idea what they're talking
   about.

      -- https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudulence-of-waste-fraud-and

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Elon Musk told a cheering crowd at Sunday's MAGA rally in New York
that if Donald Trump puts him in charge of government efficiency, as
planned, he can cut "at least $2 trillion" from the current federal
budget.
 
And that can only mean one of two things.
 
Either Donald Trump and Elon Musk are planning to cut 85% of all
spending on highways, disaster relief, federal bank-deposit insurance
and the departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security and Justice;
close all U.S. embassies; and abolish the Environmental Protection
Agency, the Small Business Administration, NASA and nearly all
welfare, income-support, food-stamp and childhood-nutrition programs.
 
Or they are planning on cutting Social Security and Medicare --
despite Donald Trump's protests to the contrary.
 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-musk-and-trump-want-to-cut-federal-spending-by-2-trillion-theyll-have-to-come-for-social-security-and-medicare-36450c5f
 

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada