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The Army doesn’t have enough money to keep its people trained and its equipment maintained and up to date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni2wJo7fKBA
When the Trump administration temporarily cuts certain science funding, some studies can’t just start up again. They require specialized people, equipment, and biological specimens, and those can’t just wait for funding to return. Our knowledge about the world, and the medical benefits some of this knowledge would have led to, have been hurt by these shortsighted actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCULe4p3-AQ
The Democrats tried to fund the TSA. Republicans rejected it.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5794925-tsa-funding-senate-rules/
Trying to maximize their profits by limiting taxes and regulation, big corporations have funded Christian movements that preach capitalism and market fundamentalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRG1N_JFVnY
When you temporarily defund the military, you lose key human capital that moves into the private sector and can’t easily be brought back. You would make the military weaker long term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vDb7TRKlcU
“Certain benefits will continue to be administered: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and assistance for Veterans. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will not be affected initially, but could be if the shutdown goes on for a long time. The federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will not be able to accept any new applicants starting today. In the past, “inspections of chemical factories, power plants, oil refineries and water treatment plants were disrupted because the Environmental Protection Agency furloughed most of its employees in charge of monitoring pollution and compliance,” reports the Times. “Some routine food safety inspections also stopped.”
National parks have previously had their operations hobbled; open-air sites will probably stay open but visitors centers or other areas that need staffing will shut down. The Department of the Interior says that restrooms will be cleaned and garbage will be collected”
https://reason.com/2025/10/01/trump-government-shutdown-could-do-a-lot-of-good/
Trump is forcing federal agencies and workers to attack Democrats.
Trump is threatening to cancel funding in Democratic states to attack Democratic leaders in response to the government shutdown.
This politicization of federal responsibilities is not good. Bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ycvFottSE
One reason BLS statistic revisions are so large is because it is underfunded. Trump funding it even less isn’t going to help this.
Another problem is that businesses are not responding to surveys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcdANjLeny8
Companies are worried about quarterly earnings. The U.S. does not have a plan B for long-term research. We need to maintain the funding and focus on research in universities. Many technologies that are changing the world today are based on university research from decades ago.
Trump’s trade agreements are not trade agreements. They are not even trade deals. They are more press releases. It’s likely that many of Trump’s tariffs won’t even be legal under U.S. law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HvpdbtJSA
Administration cutting all sorts of research, not just “DEI” science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wol4KMqbYRo