• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    23 hours ago

    Probably a blessing in disguise. If they were funding climate research it would almost certainly be fraudulent science.

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      23 hours ago

      They had a corps of competent people with civil service protections who were getting paid out of that budget. They avoided committing fraud during the first Trump administration

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        22 hours ago

        This isn’t the first Trump administration. This administration doesn’t concern itself with civil service protections.

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          They are trying change things, but there’s a good chance basic stuff like measuring CO2 concentrations would continue normally with a nonzero budget