Jorge GW Bush took a surplus from Clinton and then it became a deficit, because of "temporary" tax cuts. Trump piled $1T (or more) in tax cuts on, with no funding mechanism to replace the income.Then we had COVID. We also had two wars that went on the national credit card. Defense spending has increased year over year and will hit $1T/year sooner rather than later.Medicare is unable to negotiate prices on pharmaceuticals -- they pay list price. Other countries (and even the VA) negotiate bulk discounts on common medications.We have companies and billionaires who are paying $0 in taxes. We don't fund the department with actually collecting taxes enough, so they underperform.It's ridiculous. Enough. At this point, programs that have budgets in the millions or tens of millions are rounding errors, although the GOP is going bring them up as "wasteful spending". Yes, they might be "wasteful", but when is the last time the DoD actually audited where the money went?

Jorge GW Bush took a surplus from Clinton and then it became a deficit, because of "temporary" tax cuts. Trump piled $1T (or more) in tax cuts on, with no funding mechanism to replace the income.Then we had COVID. We also had two wars that went on the national credit card. Defense spending has increased year over year and will hit $1T/year sooner rather than later.Medicare is unable to negotiate prices on pharmaceuticals -- they pay list price. Other countries (and even the VA) negotiate bulk discounts on common medications.We have companies and billionaires who are paying $0 in taxes. We don't fund the department with actually collecting taxes enough, so they underperform.It's ridiculous. Enough. At this point, programs that have budgets in the millions or tens of millions are rounding errors, although the GOP is going bring them up as "wasteful spending". Yes, they might be "wasteful", but when is the last time the DoD actually audited where the money went?

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