• Rothe@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    The point is Trump will never do anything that isn’t for deeply personal reasons. And he would never do anything solely to save money on the budget, he doesn’t care about that at all. So either he does this out of pure spite, because it is a “liberal” thing, or more likely he does it because he has been bribed by whatever industries are eager to turn all that forest into shortsighted profit.

    • errer@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Fine. But calling 9 billion dollars, an amount of money most people can’t even fathom, “minuscule” is pretty stupid.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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        36 minutes ago

        In the federal budget context, that is literally a few dollars. It is super disingenuous to compare it to the budget of a single person.