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Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program (futurism.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Domino to c/world@quokk.au

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Consequently, the South African billionaire has been put in charge of a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" to excise $2 trillion from the national budget. Whether this advisory group will be able to take aim at the Artemis program remains to be seen.

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[–] errer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

This is what really annoys me about DOGE: we really do need to cut government spending severely as it is so inefficient, just we need to do it in a precise way that actually preserves the government’s function. Musk’s goal is to cut costs by just removing function altogether.