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By cutting waste
I have no idea why you think this is what money is being wasted on. We're already seeing the effect of downsizing the FAA. Do you think regular plane crashes are going to lower taxes?
First that's a strawman, I never made that argument, but if I did you would have to provide evidence that downsizing the faa would cause regular plane crashes.
It's literally already happening.
And it's hard to know what argument you're making when your responses are one and two words.
Regular crashes are not happening. Also they rejected over 1000 applicants for traffic controllers because of there race while having a staffing shortage. Maybe don't do that
Should be pretty easy when I don't use words like faa and plane crashes
Where do you people even come up with this nonsense?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/immediate-assessment-of-aviation-safety
This was your entire argument:
You didn't even bother defining what you think is waste. Is every government employee a waste?
They aren't interested in cutting waste. If they were, they would be slashing the Pentagon budget. Notice how all this talk of cost cutting, nobody is breathing a word about the Pentagon?
Because that's where the fraud, waste and abuse is.
Remember the last time someone was supposed to take Pentagon waste seriously? No, of course not, because it was 9/10/2001.
https://youtu.be/xU4GdHLUHwU
This person has reached the absurd point with me of "it's fine that Trump is firing the people responsible for safeguarding our nuclear weapons [which he's in the process of doing] because they aren't all that important to the safety of our nuclear weapons," so I wouldn't hold out much hope for their understanding what you're saying.
Again, never made that argument
They haven't gotten that far yet. They can't audit every department in one day.
https://youtu.be/Leor8ual9tw
It's not that they haven't gotten that far, it's that they simply are not interested in the largest source of fraud, waste, and abuse.
If they were, they would have started with the biggest piece of the budget, not tiny slices like USAID.
USAID makes up $40 billion... which sounds like a lot until you realize the DoD budget is $850 billion.
The director literally said he welcomes them
Suuuure... 😉
https://youtu.be/Leor8ual9tw