Tim Fullerton
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to potentially cover it in a video the other day.
And so all the numbers are fairly top of mind, but NPR's analysis, which is correct, was able to prove that they saved $2.4 billion.
Of course, Elon Musk, the max he said was 150 billion before.
And that was of course, after they cut it from 2 trillion to 1 trillion to 250 billion.
So 2.4 billion is the,
Is the max on the one side of the balance sheet.
The other side, they estimate, I think, $50 or $80 billion in lost tax revenue because of all of the lack of oversight.
And so the net impact is like 20x, 30x in the red.
Yeah, and we killed 600,000 people.
Oh, abroad.
Yeah.
With USAID cuts.
With USAID cuts.
Right.
Right.
And so, yes, if you do them, like looking at what you could spend, like we talked about last time, we were spending every day in Iran.
We were spending the equivalent of a full week of funding the VA.
There are all sorts of really fun comparisons like that.
Like you could build like, you know, 10 schools a day in the United States for the price of Iran every single day.
It was you.