All part of project 2025 - dismantling the federal government. There are a lot of people who voted for this that have no idea what they’re asking for and are about to find out the hard way.
worik•5h ago
It will take decades for these chickens to come home to roost
The USA is huge, with a huge economy. Wrecking it is a long term project
It is so sad to see such cunning greed used for such nefarious ends
toomuchtodo•5h ago
It's tragic, and will be a historic cautionary tale. It will go one of two ways: midterms will swing us the other way when the sheep find out they're up for culling with Medicaid cuts [1] [2], or folks are going to double down and this democratic experiment is over. See you in 480 days.
Idk, people who voted for it were told quite plainly what was going to happen and have cheered it on. Goes back to Reagan and Norquist at least.
drivingmenuts•4h ago
This is how you kill the dream of public spaceflight.
TheNewsIsHere•3h ago
This also stands a good chance at chilling aeronautics research that isn’t proprietary.
DemocracyFTW2•36m ago
"not proprietary" from someone who's commenting on the demise of publicly employed personnel from a public agency who were paid to do, among other things, publicly funded research with publicly accessible results which will maybe, if at all, in the future be conducted by private firms with private interests which are controlled by private investors, the stock market and private equity is—I wanna say "rich" but I find it rather "poor". "Poor" as in "poor America".
jaybrendansmith•3h ago
This one hurts. I knew they would do it, but NASA is important. While SpaceX may do amazing things, they will never do research.
tw04•5h ago
worik•5h ago
The USA is huge, with a huge economy. Wrecking it is a long term project
It is so sad to see such cunning greed used for such nefarious ends
toomuchtodo•5h ago
[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5325977-trump-budget-...
[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/03/nx...
quantified•4h ago