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Charles Ryder's avatar

>which he promised during the campaign would cut federal spending by $2 trillion a year by ***reading random tweets*** ferreting out waste<

I'm absolutely LOVING the uber-drollness of the post-Times Paul Krugman. LOL. Dr. Krugman, you totally could have a side hustle editing The Onion, or maybe as a staff writer for somebody like Colbert.

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Boris Roosevelt's avatar

I posted a TikTok saying this exact same thing a few weeks ago and even mentioned the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a likely target. It was taken down as misinformation. 🤣

The first Trump administration already tried this with Covid deaths. It seems self evident they will try it with other data providing agencies.

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