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This initiative is launched quicker than I expected, considering the pressure on federal budget due to the pandemic. It's part of National Quantum Initiative Act, signed into law in December, 2018. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6227

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$75M is rounding error compared to anything being discussed in the vicinity of the pandemic; I wouldn't really expect it to enter into the conversation.

It is a start, right?

Every line item in the budget is a rounding error until you add them all up.

The package they passed in March was $2 trillion. That's _five orders of magnitude_ difference.

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