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Save billions on essentials while spending trillions in bullshit.
Remember when if you didn't "support our troops," Republicans would ask you why you hated America?
Not for millenia would I have realized that Department of Government Efficiency stood for DoGE. What a funny little boy Elon is.
they just want Russia to be the top superpower
I'm sure that'll be popular and there won't be any repercussions and that unicorns will poop free candy for everyone.
Doesn't matter. Everyone enjoys their face being eaten. They can blame it on the damn (outgroup) and feel better about themselves. Rage and being better than some other tribe is all that matters anymore.
Okay I agree with the other comments here but I'm a bit confused on this.
How are we still spending money on these things if congress doesn't approve it? The legislature sets the budget, did they just forget to make it official and extend these? Also why even have a phase out period in the first place?
I think it's because there is a difference between the Budget and Appropriations in Congress. The budget is a plan, where programs are authorized and an overall budget is set. The appropriations process is what assigns particular dollars to particular discretionary programs. (Certain programs deemed "mandatory" by Congress, like Social Security, Medicare, and interest on the debt, get allocated money automatically and are not involved in appropriations)
If I had to guess, I would say that once a program is authorized once under a budget, it can continue as long as it (or the Federal department it is part of) is not specifically de-authorized, and as long as it continues to receive appropriations specifically for that program.
So, it is likely that this is all about Ramaswamy's total ignorance of how Congress works. Which tracks pretty well with what this DOGE is all about.
I'm sure this will help with the dramatic drop in people willing to volunteer for the army.
Nice of you to assume you won't get mandatory military service.
They stopped drafting people for a reason.
Maybe they forgot? Guess we'll have to remind them.
90% of folks can't be trained to kill.
Half of the remainder would rather frag their own commanding officers than some poor foreign kid.
99% of stats are wrong.
We can't be taking care of Veterans that is way to decent of a thing to do for Republicans.
They won't cut the funding that goes to the richest Americans and themselves of course.
The crazy thing is the amount of money donated to a Trump by people who work for the Dept of Defense. Or maybe that includes contractors, aka, the rich.
I've can only hope that they fuck things up so bad that... Oh who am I kidding. There are to many stupid Americans for anything they do to make a difference in the Trumpublican party.
I am terrified at them defunding the VA. I've had a much easier time getting good medical care from VA doctors than I ever did going private and I'd be bankrupt without the VA. It's because of the VA that I have any savings at all
These guys really seem to want a pissed off veteran to take them out.
Karma
This is a c/leopardsatemyface moment.
I expected NASA to get screwed by DOGE. What I didn't expect was that it's at the behest of Ramaswamy instead of Elmo. 2024 is defying expectations yet again.
NASA gives SpaceX fat government paychecks. He doesn't want anything to happen to them.
Not necessarily. He wouldn't want anything to happen to the funding that ends up going to himself. He would likely be thrilled if their funding for designing and building their own rockets dried up, though.
It's right in line with the purpose of DOGE and an easy sell to anybody that doesn't immediately see the conflict of interest: "Why are we spending $100 million annually to play catch-up with the private sector? Reallocate $80 million to get rockets that work today and save the taxpayers $20 million while doing it."
I dunno I disagree. I think he'd like nothing more than if NASA just completely disappeared. I've thought that since the second they started talking about him guiding fiduciary spending. Once NASA is out of the picture, it's all SpaceX all the time. Trump is already most of the way there anyway. "His rocket company is the only reason we can now send American astronauts into space."
This is part of the plan I suspect.
Yep he doesn’t want NASA to steal his thunder with the first manned moon landing since the Apollo program. NASA’s Orion is competing directly with SpaceX
I don't think he actually cares much about achieving anything spaceflight related. The guy has been hyping up his companies by holding big events for technologies ready in "X years" and consistently failing to deliver on either deadlines, tangible progress, quality, or sometimes all three of those.
I'm under the impression that E-con Musk sees a golden opportunity to use his undeserved status as a competent inventor and businessman as an opportunity to redirect government funds into his own pocket.