the president mused about redirecting $3 billion in research grant funding that his administration has frozen or withdrawn

  • DragonSidedD@lemmy.mlBannedOP
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    It plays to his anti-intellectual base: “See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades.”

    (You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f’ing cancer research)

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      We just randomly increased military spending by 150 BILLION this year.

      That could have paid for a lot of trade schools