There is no way Musk and Ramaswamy can slash $2 trillion out of the $7 trillion budget without cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (which make up close to $5 trillion). So if that's the goal, they're talking about reducing these programs. The math is simple.
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Garrett M. Graff
Friendly reminder: The USG spends $290 billion on personnel. If you fired EVERYONE who worked for the federal government, you’d save 5% of the budget. You know where most of it goes? Defense and back to us in Social Security and Medicare.
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Oh…
Wait….
Never
Mind
- All cuts are on the table. All.
- Focus cuts on Republican voters to further anger them about "Biden's economy"
- Under NO circumstances raise taxes on the top 1% (e.g., Trump, Musk, and Senate Republicans)
LOL! (Sorry, read that as a sick LOL)
Take away incomes.
Take away health insurance.
Watch healthy individuals lose their American dream.
Watch children suffer.
When politicians try to hurt POC their white constituents suffer as well!
Stop the madness!
Please!
"slashing" is the purview of CONGRESS, not some unelected hacks seeking to inject their agenda & ideology (& a tax cut for themselves) into the budgeting process..