US lawmakers vote to reduce NSF funding by 20%

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> According to the administration’s 2027 budget proposal, “every tool in the executive fiscal toolbox has been utilized to achieve real savings”.

It’s so concerning to see journalism that quotes a lie from a political regime. It’s dishonest reporting.

The Trump admin isn’t “using every tool in the executive toolbox to achieve real savings.” That’s a complete lie.

They’ve wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on an illegal war with Iran, on illegal tariffs, on illegal ICE deployments. The list of executive waste is incredible.

The absolute cost of these programs is in the single-digit-billions. Deleting them is a rounding error in the budget as a whole, which is in the thousands-of-billions.

You cannot get "real savings" by cutting these programs. It's just a lie.

They've massively expanded the programs that could potentially offer real savings. The deficit is increasing, massively. Any belief that the deficit is being controlled is delusional to the point of utter gullibility.

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