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Here's the big picture: Only around 3% of total spending is federal payroll. Dismantling of essential services like free tax filing saves very little money.

Total annual spending is around $6.75 trillion, of which only around $210 Billion is spent on federal payroll (not including military and postal workers).

All these cuts are intended to pay for tax cuts for Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires.



18F went around improving tech for other agencies and the government as a whole; shutting them down almost certainly costs money. Just as cutting from the IRS tends to cost money.


They didn’t bother to cut spending to pay for the last two fiscally-disastrous rounds of big Republican tax cuts. Why do it this time?

No, they’re just trying to wreck the government.

They were pretty open about it during the election.




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