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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Banksy 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: DOGE = Another Trump Total Fail!
Date: 05/19/26 9:20 AM
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Trump’s Plan to Eliminate Waste, Fraud and Abuse From Budget Successfully Achieves 13% Increase in Waste, Fraud and Abuse! Cheers MAGA!

"Government waste, fraud and abuse rose 13% last year."

"The Trump administration pinned a lot of its fiscal agenda on the idea that waste, fraud and abuse constituted a huge % of federal spending,
and that getting rid of it would allow the government to slash taxes without cutting meaningful programs.
Before the 2024 election, Trump's budget cutter Elon Musk promised voters he would slash $2 trillion from the $7 trillion budget."

"Instead, the Trump administration has increased federal spending."

"Trump, during a televised speech to a joint session of Congress a year ago, also repeated Musk's claim that the Social Security budget contained huge amounts of money being fraudulently paid to dead people.
This turned out to be completely untrue."

"The national debt now amounts to 100% of GDP."

Trump asks if anyone knows how to file a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy for an entire country...

morningstar.com - Government waste fraud and abuse rose last year despite musk and doge saying theyd cut trillion from the budge
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