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“I hope that Trump 2.0’s staff has the stomach and topcover for this sort of work that could yield real long-term dividends for the country, not just grabbing the lowest hanging political fruit…”

Is there a shred of evidence that Trump 2.0 has the capacity or intelligence to do any such thing? I don’t see it anywhere. I just see naked partisanship and hackery, with a healthy dose of blundering incompetence and vile retribution.

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NSF and specifically the regional innovation hubs seem like no brainers to keep.

- how do we escalate and make that happen?

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While I wasn’t that senior AF official Jen mentioned, I admit I’ve said something similar.

But it’s time to move beyond the “but [fill in the blank Department/Agency] could use some trimming or reform.”

That’s a given. Saying it out loud gives an excuse to the human tornado tearing through the government right now. What’s happening now is ‘planned chaos.’ Taking a wrecking ball to the entire federal government, completely absent any coherent strategy or vision.

The words out of all the front offices belie the hatchet job actions underway.

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