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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by monocularvision on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:34AM (#42932087)
And 2/3rds (and growing) of the Federal Budget is mandatory entitlement spending (Medicare, SS, etc), which Trump explicitly stated he won’t touch.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by nxobject on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:39AM (#42932149)
And don’t forget interest payments on the debt (~$800 bil?), which will keep increasing year over year as well.
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