Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Politics
2902

FY 2026 budget is in the works. That one belongs to Trump.

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2903

FY 2025 spending belongs to Biden. FY 2026 spending will belong to Trump.

2904

I don’t have a subscription to your paywalled reference, but how much of that spending is set in stone whoever is President? Social security, Medicare, affordable care act….?

2905

Here’s how it has been working… Everything Trump/DOGE has cut has been met with wails of complaints. “Congressionally approved.” What does that mean? Well, it was approved by Congress – in the last budget cycle.

And guess what? Only the surface of that “approved” spending was scratched.

Now the “news” is that spending is still up.

To be fair, a lot of the spending is just an ongoing avalanche that has been rolling since before Biden, and before the previous Trump term, and before Obama, and before him, etc.

And to be blunt, even with cuts, I think it would take a miracle for the next budget cycle to arrive at a budget that will be less than the FY 2025 cycle.

But one thing is certain. There will be wailing as a result of the next budget.

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2906

We are still u der the Biden FY 2025 budget. Many things cannot be undone and spending on those will continue until the end of Sep.

October 1, FY 2026 you can bitch about Trump’s budget.

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2907

Are we thinking they will actually pass a budget this year?

2908

It’s contagious!

2909

I’d put the odds at 50-50.

2910

Better odds than I would have put last year.

Personally I’m disappointed that formal budget debate hasn’t started already. Just watch. They’ll put it off until September.

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2911

Kicking cans down the road is how Congress rolls.

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2912

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/12/trump-universities-funding-cuts-016328

The administration has framed its blanket cap on National Institutes of Health funding for research-related administrative costs as reining in elite coastal institutions like Harvard and Yale, which it argues has vacuumed up too much taxpayer money.

Yet in a flurry of lawsuits and dire pleas, universities in ruby red states like Alabama and Kentucky warned that the cuts could be devastating to public institutions that are widely regarded as economic engines in their regions.

“This change isn’t a cost savings; it’s a cost transfer,” Jeffrey Gold, president of the University of Nebraska system, wrote in a letter to students and faculty predicting the policy would shrink its research capabilities and force the state to fill the funding gap.

Are we great yet?

2913

They have.

And that’s fallout of us allowing (and getting used to) the government over-taxing and then “giving” to all sorts of things that it shouldn’t have it’s tentacles in.

Doesn’t matter, red state or blue state.

2914

You don’t think funding research pays dividends to the tax payers?

2915

And regardless of opinions on the value of research, the economies that have built up around research are getting blown out of the water with these policies. I if you want to stop funding research, I think it would have been wiser to give local economies a chance to transition to other employment opportunities.

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Not the government’s purview. We’ve been through this already. But you’re playing stupid today so I’ll pretend you haven’t been told that already.

And especially not to the degree that it’s regarded “… as economic engines in their regions.”

I’ll repeat: