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AZ + NV + NC + WI = 43 electoral votes. That difference would have been the nightmare scenario of a 269-269 tie in the 2024 election.
It's only too bad that was the last safe, free and fair election we're ever going to get. Also, I think you overestimate the general populace's concern with biomedical research (though ever little bit could've helped overcome the 2.3% Trump won the whole thing with)
It's only too bad that was the last safe, free and fair election we're ever going to get
except for all the voter suppression by Republicans
And the ballot generation scripts authored by Musks people.
Guarantee you that Joe Average would quickly feel the knock-on effects of destroying hospitals and universities.
A MILLION fucking Americans died, bad, chocking on their own fluids, unable to see or touch their loved one's as they passed, due to a mismanaged, purposefully inept Federal Global Pandemic response the last time Donald Trump was President, the outsized percentage were MAGA voters, their loved ones just put Donald Trump back in the White House, Democrats couldn't be bothered to vote in large enough numbers to counter them even having lost an almost equal amount of Mothers, Fathers, Sister, Brothers, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins, Friends, Coworkers to Trump direct scientific and medical ineptitude. I don't have to guarantee you anything about the "average american joe", they proved it on their own on November 6th.
And blame it on whomever Fox news told him to blame. Democrats, trans people, Mexicans, take your pick.
So... Did they ever talk about what they're planning to do with all this money they're "saving"?
The thing that annoys me is... even if they genuinely want to save money (and that's a big if), this is barely even "saving" much money. NIH has historically been a very good return on investment for the US government despite running on a shoestring budget, and that is probably not even accounting for the various downstream applications (like all the pharma industry) that relies on NIH-funded research.
Part of the issue with indirect costs are due to the NIH never getting much of a budget raise and the ballooning bureaucracy... Yes, there are people wanting change for the better, but the current administration decided to wake up to violence by dealing with this in the worst way possible
Yeah sure, they are trying to come up with like 3-4 trillion in savings to pay for the extension and increase of corporate tax cuts that expires this year.
Obviously there isn't 4 trillion of discretionary spending to cut, so the other half of the equation is paying for the rest in tariffs. If you tariff everything coming in at 25% that's a trillion in tax revenue right there.
There is no appetite in congress to raise the debt for the cuts, so they need to find the money somehow.
Straight to their coffers of course!
Industrial strength "blocks" being used here.