With a nation this far endebted you'd think people might think it reasonable to question billions in grants.. Don't spend money you don't have is one of the best advices my parents ever gave me.

> With a nation this far endebted you'd think people might think it reasonable to question billions in grants..

One might also question the wisdom of starting yet another ongoing war, or throwing piles of money at putting a president's name everywhere it wasn't asked for, or truckloads of money "renovating" national monuments only to have to throw more money at re-doing the job because it was half-assed by an unqualified crew, or literal tens of billions at ICE (kinda sorta) doing their job worse than ever before... Guess how much money's been wasted on all that?

That argument is rolled out every time the Republicans want to cut anything, but then they don't actually balance the books. Trump is responsible for 25% of the national debt and the DOGE cuts did not move the needle at all.

Your parents didn't have the legal authority to print money. It's almost like running a household is different from running a business, is different from running a nation.

Was another piece of advice that personal finance is absolutely nothing like running a business or country?

And of course your straw man is "this is just DOGE trying to save tax dollars", completely ignoring the premise of the article and all other readily-available information.