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Blame the victims much?

Except in this case the victims happened to be essential to maintaining the security of the United States' nuclear weapons stockpile.

Surely their evil, bureaucratic bosses just did it for show to score political points though, right?

>Whenever faced with cuts, our govt bureaucracy reacts by cutting something visible to create a PR disaster and force back cuts

Cite one credible source saying this is in fact what happened recently with NNSA and I might believe you.

The preponderance of evidence recently does not support this, what with it being widely reported that ill-suited unqualified personnel have been presiding over these cuts across all agencies, at a scale and speed which is unprecedented.



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