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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by smsm42 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:09PM (#19008840)
To give you a data point, current shutdown that just ended was a fight about 5 billions. Budget is big - even discretionary one - which is only one that needs to be considered when we talk about spending priorities, since non-discretionary one is pretty much fixed - but it also has a lot of items inside. And if we talk about priorities for specific items, 100bn is nothing to sneeze at. Whole Department of Energy budget is is about 30bn - so it's definitely on the same scale.
Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by ComputerGuru on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:38PM (#19009307)
The shutdown wasn’t about the money so much as what it represented.