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VMA131Marine

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1. Sure it will be easy ...
Thu Nov 28, 2024, 10:04 PM
Nov 28

Once you eliminate Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

The “discretionary” part of the Federal budget is less than $1 Trillion and that doesn’t include the DoD. You can’t cut $2 Trillion without eliminating everything the government does … including payments to red states.

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