Well...following the initial post...let's see what we could just cut. Why not first cut airline safety (including air controllers)? Then lets move to cutting back on roadway repairs, signage and safety issues? Then lets cut the military and all veteran's programs? Perhaps we want to cut out bank regulators? How about cutting the departments that oversee nursing homes and assisted care facilities? Perhaps another cut could be made to those receiving life sustaining medications? Then we could cut the regulators of the financial markets and who oversee the safety of 401 (k)'s and pension plans? How about cutting Social Security?
I am sure we could cut and cut and cut...and then criticize it when a plane goes down with one of our relatives on board because there was inadequate oversight!
The DOGE approach failed. Only a tiny percentage of the federal budget was saved (like less than 1%). Yet, DOGE's cuts involved slashing the jobs of tens of thousands of employees, some of them long term who worked to make America safer for us. This was NOT the way to trim the budget. The Congress needs to focus on financial issues...not just which gender might be wearing a sports jersey!
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