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I bet much of this fraud benefits big donors of both parties.

I doubt they will fix that

There's a lot of just plain simple fraud too. I've seen embassies issue visas only with bribes, or employees simply collect salaries without doing their jobs. As in you're hired to review documents by some legally mandated criteria, and they simply toss them into piles without even glancing at them and go home early.

That benefits no one, except for the employee.

I'm certain that happens, but that can't possibly be the trillion dollars they think they are going to save.

Sure, but about what amount are we talking?

Millions vs billions.

Some government jobs were basically UBI. They provided incomes in rural America.

This is sort of the group that interests me the most, there is some notion of the government as sort of an employer of last resort in some areas which is a progressive/liberal idea, though id imagine with the areas most impacted by offshoring these jobs are disproportionately in red / Trump supporting states.

And even if you’re ok with getting rid of these jobs, the biggest impact might not even be the loss of these jobs but the loss of the consumers who had these jobs spending money in their local communities.

In addition to the money that's spent, these people had great health insurance. This helped to subsidize rural hospitals. Between this and cuts to medicaid, more rural hospitals will close.

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