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We don't have enough information to determine that, in many cases. Because it depends on what the costs of those cuts will be. DOGE is in many cases cutting things without doing a proper impact analysis.

There are many documented instances of DOGE cutting things that they later realized were needed -- leading to unnecessary switching costs and other consequential costs.

Second: deferring costs in the short term are often a bad choice that can cause higher costs over the long term.

Third: some cuts can exchange monetary costs for non-monetary costs. These will make a number look good but can cause impacts that are bad.



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