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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut The Bone By $1.1 trillion, Part 12

Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut The Bone By $1.1 trillion, Part 12

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Dec 10, 2024
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut The Bone By $1.1 trillion, Part 12
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After “Slashing the Fat” by upwards of 535,000 jobs or 35% of the nondefense Federal bureaucracy and downsizing the muscle of Washington’s vastly bloated Warfare State by 50%, the total budget savings by FY 2029 would add up to a creditable $900 billion. But that’s not nearly enough to reach the $2 trillion per year DOGE target, and also far short of wh…

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