• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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      Yeah but you’re not going to convince people to slash defense budget by a full trillion. It would be madness while China and Russia are acting more aggressive than they have been in over 50 years.

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        yeah but it would not even be close to a trillion and china and russia don’t spend nearly what we do combined.

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          Well it’s already not a Trillion, so yes. The $1.5 number is Trump’s request for 2027. Even Republicans, as stupid as they are, are afraid of the banks letting them go default.

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        If you cut 100 billion of it, you would still have 1.4 trillion to kill brown people with.

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          Well, no, you’d have about 890 Billion because the 1.5 Trillion is an imaginary figure that Trump made up. The largest parts of that are paychecks and maintenance.