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The most important detail (the amount) is being left. Is this just a few dollars (in terms of the US budget) or a sizable portion? How is the money split between the different categories?

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Those details aren’t known; because the order is so broad and vague. That’s part of the problem.

Have you read it, it's downright insane. "Marxist", "woke", etc. it carves out an exception for Medicare and Social Security, but that's literally it. Even things like Pell grants, food stamps, and Medicaid are up in the other because the wording here is that bad.

So, as of this order, the US just had an ~$3 the trillion drop in GDP. Much of it to research and nonprofits.

Not literally: "Medicare and Social Security benefits will not be affected, nor will any programme "that provides direct benefits to individuals", including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, the White House said."

I guess the article or link has been updated?

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