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So, the things they've (illegally, according to the courts) chopped have included vast numbers of local infrastructure projects, domestic renewable energy projects, FEMA support, critical programs to prevent HIV abroad (PEPFAR is still not back online https://pepfarimpact.vercel.app/), domestic cancer trials, and pretty much all NIH funding is still currently at a standstill.

Let's say that, unlike pretty much most Americans, you think none of those are worth the comparatively tiny overall costs in the USGOV budget.

OK. And then let's say, you also dispute or otherwise disagree with the likelihood that most of those actually return a net economic ROI for our country.

OK. And then let's say you also dispute the likelihood that despite their minor costs, and despite their positive ROI, the sheer chaotic nature of this approach is wasting a ton of money by gumming up the federal government and creating dozens of lawsuits for weeks.

Fine. So despite the tiny costs, positive ROI, and inefficiency of this approach, there's still a massive economic issue being caused here.

When you cancel ongoing legal federal contracts, you are telling every private contractor loud and clear: you cannot trust the US government to keep their legally binding word. Price that in.

That will in fact be priced in going forward now and cost us dearly. Disastrously stupid.