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Andrew Dolgin's avatar

There is a reduction and redirection of resources. Those NGO groups were one avenue of deep state power, Trump is simply redirecting funds to the DoD.

Again, he’s pushing for a trillion dollar “defense” budget. If you think that isn’t going to be waste, fraud, and abuse, then you are being played and are a sucker.

Trump did not eliminate waste with DOGE. He shifted the waste into the DoD.

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BookWench's avatar

His trillion dollar defense budget is bonkers, agreed.

Especially since, just a few weeks earlier, they'd all been talking about cutting the budget at the Pentagon.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Exactly. What of that 50% reduction in military spending Trump floated? I like a lot of stuff he's doing, and it's still very early, but I'd really like to see action on the Pentagon, Homeland Security, the CIA, and the FBI. When is Patel going to start redeploying all those thousands of FBI people from Washington to actually fight crime throughout the country? And I'd like to start seeing Bobby go after the pharma companies. It's a big to-do list, and I hope they get around to all of it.

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gortroe's avatar

That remains to be seen. Meanwhile, because of such foolish foreign policy for so long, we really are in a perilous world right now. With all his enemies watching him so closely, it's less likely that Trump & co will get away with what previous administrations did so easily.

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Steve C's avatar

Maybe. We shall see.

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