You are allowed to be against waste a lot of things that people claim are waste aren't. A lot of things are relatively insignificant compared to the size of the full budget. More communication with parents on how to prevent infant deaths seems like a cheap and worthwhile thing to do rather then waste. Maybe you should have picked something else

From my perspective, it seems like tech bros are declaring everything they see to be waste without any real familiarity with the specific programs that they're cutting and without any cost-benefit analysis. The program that this poster highlighted - educational materials to prevent SIDS - seems incredibly cost-effective. The actuarial value of an infant's life is very high - certainly in the millions of dollars. And getting parents to understand what they need to do and change their behavior can be very difficult. Spending $10 million a year (to use the poster's number) to make sure that doctors have good educational materials in a variety of languages is worth it from a cost-benefit perspective if it saves a single infant life a year. What's your evidence that it isn't cost-effective?

I agree the government is wasteful and could be streamlined, but that's not what Trump is doing.

It's instead a revenge campaign against perceived enemies of the GOP, and they have actually increased YoY spending so far.

And all of that is orthogonal to the central issue that the entire exercise is unconstitutional and authoritarian. Congress is explicitly given the power to set spending.

You can argue plenty, like you’re doing right now. You’re doing yourself and your cause a disservice by being so black and white with your accusations. HN is chock full of people who agree with you. Go ahead and present compelling arguments for austerity. Just be prepared to defend them.