• SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And just to be clear, the budget was 38 billion, and this increase makes it 38.6 billion, a 1.6% increase.

    Isn’t inflation currently like 4.1%? So this is not even a budgetary increase commensurate with inflation? Clowns.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      In fairness, I think the budget itself had already increased this year before this new increase. This is 680 mil on top of the already increased budget.