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Cake day: August 12th, 2024

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  • This article tries to make him sound better than he was too. “where he implemented mass firings and radically cut federal spending.”

    He didn’t radically cut federal spending. Federal spending isn’t down, he just fired people and the money stayed the same really.

    Let’s say the CDC that is struggling to track this parasite presumed in lettuce(cyclosporiasis) which was tracked since 1997. Why, well Kennedy told them not to track it anymore in July 2025. July 2026, largest number of cases ever recorded.

    The CDC fired ~3200 people, roughly 25% of their staff. Yet the budget request for the CDC in 2026 isn’t really any different than 2025, 2024 etc. Maybe a fair comparison would be comparing the 2018, 2019 time period during Trump’s first admin to now, the CDC budget is essentially the same when you adjust it for inflation over that time.

    Full federal budget estimates look like

    2024 budget: 6.8 trillion

    2025 budget: 7 trillion

    2026 we are at 5.52 trillion including June with 6 months left

    So it surely doesn’t look like he “radically cut federal spending”… He just radically cut federal employment, and they are still spending the money.




  • Well see that’s the thing about that area, it’s designed so people can easily walk around. So in order to check out how the construction is going, you naturally have to form a motorcade and drive through the construction, as opposed to like, walking out of the White House during lunch one day and going down to look at it.

    Growing up I remember people disagreeing with Clinton and Bush, but like dudes were still taking jogs around D.C./parks or bike riding around for exercise.

    It seems crazy to think they couldn’t just put the old butter in a golf cart and drive him by real quick, like sure the secret service would still run with or w.e, but unless they really think every minute of every day someone is waiting outside the White House for the one time he comes outside to get him it seems overkill.

    Also if we got rid of the secret service and made all of our positions take public transit everywhere, politicians would focus more on helping as much of the population as they can instead of focusing on specific shareholders who will prop their campaigns.