Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
by derangedHorse on Sunday February 16, 2025 @07:50AM
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Most mandatory spending is on healthcare, social security, interest payments on debt. For anyone who values anything other than those things, every penny should be accounted for. The percentage of the total budget now becomes irrelevant.
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
by johnnyanmac on Sunday February 16, 2025 @06:07PM
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>For anyone who values anything other than those things
Nah, we'll cut those too: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/gop-targets-88...
Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
by somenameforme on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:08PM
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As mentioned elsewhere, this is literally impossible. Directly cutting mandatory spending would require new laws which, in turn, would require a supermajority in the Senate due to the filibuster, meaning the DNC would also need to be all-in on it. On the note, keep this in mind the next time some party, which can't see past tomorrow, tries to eliminate the filibuster.
Checks and balances are very important and I'm very happy to see the GOP making 0 effort to end the filibuster in spite of it currently being rather liberally used by the DNC.