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Re:Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nucle... by ben_w on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:10AM (#43079740)
Behold, your budget: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/2023_US_...

You can't cut $2T without cutting at least some "mandatory" spending or your interest payments, because the total of absolutely all your "discretionary" spending comes to a total of $1.7T.

Your "discretionary" spending includes your entire active military. Not the retired military, that's "mandatory" spending, but all your active military.

Your non-military "discretionary" spending is $0.9T, less than half of what people are talking about cutting.

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