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@cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social • 5 months ago

Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending

www.economist.com

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Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending

www.economist.com

@cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social • 5 months ago
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DOGE has so far disrupted everything in government bar the deficit

https://archive.is/2025.02.16-231927/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/12/elon-musk-is-failing-to-cut-american-spending

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    Do you have a source for that pie chart? It doesn’t remotely represent the spending on the congressional budget website. Maybe the creator mislabeled all discretionary spending solely as education?

    https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2024-03/59727-Federal-Budget.pdf

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      It’s from the Wikipedia page on the US government spending.

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        Yikes! Yeah, that’s disinformation. It needs to be taken down.

        That pie chart is sourced from a commercial (.com) site that claims it obtained its data from another .com site, and does not remotely represent the information on the congressional budgetary government (.gov) website. It falsely claims $1.7T spending on education, which is the entire annual discretionary budget. The only way that could be possible is if the US spent no money on defense for a year.

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