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by dragonwriter 3399 days ago
That's probably a part of it, but the budget cuts across the government (outside of defense and law enforcement) are also a realization of goal of at least the Bannon faction of the Trump White House to basically burn the whole system of government to the ground.
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If this is true, why are they not removing all funding entirely?
Because its not (yet, at any rate) a dictatorship, and they need something that even Republicans in Congress will vote for, for one thing.
And probably also because by removing one hair at a time you can eventually make someone bald without he even noticing.