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>There are any number of ways to handle a modest increase in costs there.

So the "we'll find 'efficiencies' somehow" argument that every opposition party trots out when they're campaigning?

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Well we tried the "burn it all down" approach with DOGE and the BBB and we got... -2 trillion in savings? Really? Wow, okay.

The truth is nobody wants to solve the deficit. It's a self eating beast at this point and simply cutting funding for a bunch of shit won't solve it. A lot of these things are fundamentally the federal governments concern, whether people admit it or not.