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d be another big deal. Trump is saying it's great for our American farmers and ranchers. Well good. So the one thing that Trump promised us appears to be real which is that big companies will move their production into the United States if they can and the car manufacturers are probably among the ones who would have the easiest time moving their production. So looks like it's happening. In other…
← Previous segment →I saw a post by an X user John Sers and I think he was using Grok as his source which makes this interesting. But here's what you need to know. There's a great controversy about how much DOGE benefited the budget. Now you would not be surprised to know that some left-leaning groups have a much lower opinion of what DOGE did.
So remember that DOGE was looking to try to get two trillion in spending cuts by now basically. So that was their goal. And at one point I heard it was one trillion and then the other trillion would be made up with growth. And I thought to myself well one trillion would be amazing. It would save the country. But currently DOGE is claiming something like 160 or 165 billion in savings. But do you think everybody agrees with that? That it's 160 billion?
Well Reuters who does not seem to be super friendly to Republicans they estimated that the actual DOGE savings could be as low as five billion. Five. The New York Times reported that the DOGE savings could be only 2.3 billion. How many of you even knew that? So again the New York Times is not considered a Republican friendly place. The Partnership for Public Service this nonpartisan group they calculated that DOGE's actions might have cost taxpayers 135 billion due to paid leave, rehiring fired workers and lost productivity. And basically saying that it's going to cost more than they save by about the amount they're claiming they're saved might be actually what the actual extra cost is.
Bloomberg again not friendly to Republicans says that after correcting errors like an eight billion contract that was misreported as eight million the estimated savings for DOGE would be 16.6 billion. So the estimates of real savings range from two to 16 billion and the true figure remains unclear. And Grok apparently supports those reports meaning it doesn't agree with them but it reports them that they are actually saying that.
Now have you noticed that the people working on the budget don't seem to be coming to us with a smaller budget. All they did was add 150 billion to the current budget and they didn't do anything else. I have no idea what Speaker Johnson is doing but I don't think he's cutting anythin
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g. Have you seen anything that's being cut? There might be some trivial little things they move around but basically the entire budget process is just fake. They're simply pretending that they're looking at it with a scalpel. They're not looking at it with a scalpel. They're just giving us the same budget they always do with a little bit added for military. There's no DOGE savings in it. It's just…
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