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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.