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[–] GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 83 points 3 hours ago (20 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

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He actually claimed 2 trillion.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour 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.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes 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".

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