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by walljm 488 days ago
1% ??? that can't be true. the DoD's personel budget, by itself is 2.7% of the total budget for the whole federal government.
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I was wrong it’s 6.6% of the budget

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-ref...

If his goal is to cut 10% of the employees That 10% is less than 1% of the budget.

Ah, thank you. That's helpful.
this was pulled from the 2024 monthly budget report from the treasury.