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Did Trump campaign about slashing the government budget?


I just don't remember this DOGE thing being on Trump's agenda when he was campaigning. I may be wrong about that but I don't think so. This whole government cost cutting seems like a big surprise to me.

Now that Trump has Elon Musk doing all this government cost cutting, I'm really concerned that we Americans are going to have less protection from agencies Musk is doing away with. These agencies were established to protect Americans and going forward, we are losing that protection. We are all going to suffer and Trump is on board with everything Musk wants to do. I'm not happy with Trump so far. I was hoping he wouldn't be a total cluster fuck but I don't think that is possible.

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I think it is less about Trump, more about republicans, cut spending, cut tax, cut regulations are conservative agenda.

But Trump being Trump, he is going at it in a big way.

When you promise to cut tax, like any billionaire (Trump and Musk both are) would have, without increasing debt, naturally you need to cut spending.

When governments pass a law or regulation, they usually create an government agency to enforce it. When you look at any government agency you usually will find a law behind it. So cutting regulation usually means getting rid of or at least gutting them.

There is going to be a lot of regulations being repealed and entire federal agencies gone or gutted in a hurry, that is if this is going well.

The trick is to find out what to cut, quick, you need an very capable outsider to do that, and that is Musk.

And it is perfect time, since republicans control just about all branches of federal government, and that is only guaranteed until mid term.

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