Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
“That was always the plan. Part of the DOGE—we talked about this from the beginning—is we’re going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstalled, because we’ll make mistakes.”
— Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
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