No. of Recommendations: 6
You sure?
I'm pretty sure Musk, et al, want exactly that. They want many departments/agencies to close entirely. The easiest way to do that is to make it useless, and then declare "it's useless, we may as well close it". So it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they wouldn't want to hire an X-ray tech (in your example).Musk might want that. Trump does not. One of his more significant political accomplishments was carving himself free of the "cut all entitlements" portion of the GOP. Trump doesn't want to cut Social Security. He doesn't want to cut Medicare. Those programs are immensely popular, and specifically are immensely popular among his
base. And he is all about not doing anything that will cause him political pain just because
other people want that thing to happen.
Musk is pleasing Trump, because he's making the liberals cry and causing a whole lot of cuts in areas
that his people don't like. His voters don't like foreign aid or woke programs, so go nuts! They will eventually be a little unhappy when they start seeing more and more bodies of kids that have starved to death on their TV screens again (part of the reason we provide foreign aid to prevent kids in other countries from starving is because the American masses don't like seeing that kids have starved to death). But that's not going to sink in for a while! So screw Catholic Relief Services!
But if we start to see
veterans unable to get their care? Well, then they call up the White House and complain. They get interviewed on TV complaining. They call their Reps and Senators and complain. Donald Trump wants to enjoy the tears of his political opponents, not the tears of his supporters. He doesn't
actually care about budgets and efficiency and deficits - he wants to be a populist President that gives his voters what they want! And his voters want liberal/progressive stuff slashed, but hands off their Medicare! And their VA services!
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