DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts

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In the past six weeks, the agency, just one relatively small outpost in a federal work force that President Trump and his top adviser Elon Musk aim to drastically pare down, has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers — all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation.

The nuclear agency, chronically understaffed but critically important, is the busiest it has been since the Cold War. It not only manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal — a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles.

https://archive.ph/55Wo5

[Jim Blue]

Seems that DOGE policy  of  cutting the finger to save the hand ....might  just end  up  blowing up the world!....

[John Drake]

China will be happy. Say hello to Xi, Elon.

[mogandave]

Looks like VOA is now DOA. 

 

Good job Muskrats!

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4 minutes ago, mogandave said:

Looks like VOA is now DOA. 

 

Good job Muskrats!

And he's made the Chinese govt very happy too with his destruction of Radio Free Asia. Yippee!

https://archive.ph/MbE48#selection-901.0-905.114

[mogandave]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

And he's made the Chinese govt very happy too with his destruction of Radio Free Asia. Yippee!

https://archive.ph/MbE48#selection-901.0-905.114

I glad VOA will no longer be propagandizing Asia against the US. Yippee!  

[frank83628]

On 3/17/2025 at 7:50 PM, placeholder said:

In the past six weeks, the agency, just one relatively small outpost in a federal work force that President Trump and his top adviser Elon Musk aim to drastically pare down, has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers — all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation.

The nuclear agency, chronically understaffed but critically important, is the busiest it has been since the Cold War. It not only manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal — a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles.

https://archive.ph/55Wo5

Good job, doge cutting down on waste.

 

What exactly are you upset about? Will thses saving not secure you social security payments?

 

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2 minutes ago, mogandave said:

I glad VOA will no longer be propagandizing Asia against the US. Yippee!  

Which is why the Chinese govt is celebrating its demise? I think you need to return to Oppositeworld.

[Lacessit]

The Muskrats have probably never heard of institutional memory.

 

Any savings they achieve will be wiped out by having to hire back the people they have fired as consultants, and the accidents they will cause with their indiscriminate firings.

 

Chernobyl cost an estimated $700 billion to clean up, ineffectively. Fukushima cost $180 billion.

 

That's the sort of money that is needed when nuclear accidents are involved.

 

 

[Screaming]

The left wing socialist Democrats seem to think that money grows on trees. The National increasing dept is a time bomb that will eventually explode on the American taxpayers. But the Democrats do not care as long as the gravy train lasts. The U.S. taxpayers have had enough of the Democrats wasting their hard earned money and this is why Trump won the election. There is waste in every agency of the government regardless of what that is. A recent poll conducted by CNN found that the "Democratic Party approval to record low." The reason for this is much to do with the billions wasted by the Democrats on unnecessary spending.

 

https://www.wnd.com/2025/03/watch-cnn-poll-finds-democratic-party-approval-plunges-to-record-low/

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1 minute ago, frank83628 said:

Good job, doge cutting down on waste.

 

What exactly are you upset about? Will thses saving not secure you social security payments?

 

More likely to increase waste. At least nuclear waste where it doesn't belong.

Do you understand that this is the agency that is crucial for creating nuclear weapons. And the USA is now in the middle of a big program to modernize the arsenal. It's the busiest it's been since the Cold War. And they were already short staffed.

 

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3 minutes ago, Screaming said:

The left wing socialist Democrats seem to think that money grows on trees. The National increasing dept is a time bomb that will eventually explode on the American taxpayers. But the Democrats do not care as long as the gravy train lasts. The U.S. taxpayers have had enough of the Democrats wasting their hard earned money and this is why Trump won the election. There is waste in every agency of the government regardless of what that is. A recent poll conducted by CNN found that the "Democratic Party approval to record low." The reason for this is much to do with the billions wasted by the Democrats on unnecessary spending.

 

https://www.wnd.com/2025/03/watch-cnn-poll-finds-democratic-party-approval-plunges-to-record-low/

And Elon Musk is so proud of the money he's saving taxpayers that he's made it's impossible to check up on his claims.

[mogandave]

9 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Which is why the Chinese govt is celebrating its demise? I think you need to return to Oppositeworld.

I have no reason to believe the “Chinese govt” is celebrating. 

 

 

[NoDisplayName]

On 3/17/2025 at 7:50 PM, placeholder said:

It not only manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal — a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles.

 

Ripe for cutting.

 

Go git 'em, doggie!

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1 minute ago, mogandave said:

I have no reason to believe the “Chinese govt” is celebrating. 

 

 

Really? That only can be because you haven't looked

Discarded like a dirty rag': Chinese state media hails Trump's cuts to Voice of America

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9v34o

 

And actually you shouldn't even have to look. You think the Chinese govt appreciates the spotlight that the VOA shines on its lies and failures? 

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Just now, NoDisplayName said:

 

Ripe for cutting.

 

Go git 'em, doggie!

Hope that dog has a radiation proof hazmat suit.

[NoDisplayName]

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Hope that dog has a radiation proof hazmat suit.

 

So you guys are complaining that we don't have enough nukular bombs now?

 

Insane.

[NoDisplayName]

Y-12, a plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where the uranium for the next generation of nuclear weapons will be processed, is undergoing a huge overhaul that is already $4 billion over budget. That field office lost four employees,

 

Where's that nukular chainsaw?

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4 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

So you guys are complaining that we don't have enough nukular bombs now?

 

Insane.

 

3 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

Y-12, a plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where the uranium for the next generation of nuclear weapons will be processed, is undergoing a huge overhaul that is already $4 billion over budget. That field office lost four employees,

 

Where's that nukular chainsaw?

It started with Trump

Trump seeks $46 billion for nuclear weapons programs in budget request

 The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 budget includes a major increase in nuclear weapons spending from both the Defense Department and the agency in charge of managing nuclear warheads.

Overall spending on nuclear modernization by the Pentagon sits at $28.9 billion in the request, while funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration comes in at $19.8 billion, an almost 20 percent increase for the semiautonomous agency within the Department of Energy from FY20 numbers.

https://www.defensenews.com/smr/federal-budget/2020/02/10/trump-budget-requests-46-billion-for-nuclear-weapons-programs/

 

INF nuclear treaty: US pulls out of Cold War-era pact with Russia

The US has formally withdrawn from a key nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49198565

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.

It banned missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km (310-3,400 miles).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49198565

 

 

[NoDisplayName]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

fiscal 2021

 

Let me check my calendar........yep......it's 2025.

 

......and we're $37 Trillion in debt.

 

Chop-chop lil' doggie!!

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5 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Let me check my calendar........yep......it's 2025.

 

......and we're $37 Trillion in debt.

 

Chop-chop lil' doggie!!

37 trillion in debt. A perfect time to slash revenues! Keep those tax cuts coming!

[CallumWK]

5 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Let me check my calendar........yep......it's 2025.

 

......and we're $37 Trillion in debt.

 

Chop-chop lil' doggie!!

 

Does your mum know you are still awake and using the internet?

[mogandave]

39 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Really? That only can be because you haven't looked

Discarded like a dirty rag': Chinese state media hails Trump's cuts to Voice of America

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9v34o

 

And actually you shouldn't even have to look. You think the Chinese govt appreciates the spotlight that the VOA shines on its lies and failures? 

So the BBC claiming the Chinese government is celebrating, is reason to believe it’s true? 

 

First, if they were publicly celebrating, it would only be to hurt Trump. 

 

Second, VOA is even further left than the BBC, and they do nothing that benefits the US. We do not need to fund organizations that want to tell the world what an evil empire the United States is. 

 

 

[NoDisplayName]

43 minutes ago, placeholder said:

37 trillion in debt. A perfect time to slash revenues! Keep those tax cuts coming!

 

United States National Debt     $36,611,967,826

 

Total US Unfunded Liabilities    $123,308,901,767

 

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

 

[Lacessit]

8 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

United States National Debt     $36,611,967,826

 

Total US Unfunded Liabilities    $123,308,901,767

 

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

 

How much do you think the debt will be reduced with tax cuts, and American exports being boycotted?

[NoDisplayName]

3 hours ago, Lacessit said:

How much do you think the debt will be reduced with tax cuts, and American exports being boycotted?

 

Deflect, deflect deflect.  This particular anti-Trump rant is about cutting spending.  Do try to stay on topic.

 

But to answer your irrevelant question, not enough.

 

Must cut more.

 

We could close down a hundred or so overseas bases, we could cut support for genocide, we could abolish the DOE and let states run their own school systems, we could limit regime-change operations, we could audit the pentagon, we could audit purchases made on government credit cards, we could cut funding to NPR and PBS and CPB........oh, there's so much that can be cut from the budget.

 

It's gonna be gloriously MAGAnificent!

 

 

 

 

[Purdey]

Cut the $37 trillion debt in half at least. So far almost zero impact.

[phetphet]

There was an article about this in the New York Times. Many staff either accepted DOGE's buyout offer or were fired. Now there are severe staff shortages.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ny-times-investigation-exposes-decimation-caused-by-doge-cuts-at-top-secret-nuclear-agency/ar-AA1B4YDT

 

[John Drake]

15 hours ago, placeholder said:

And he's made the Chinese govt very happy too with his destruction of Radio Free Asia. Yippee!

https://archive.ph/MbE48#selection-901.0-905.114

 

RFA was important. It brought in some of the best minds in DC for dealing with Southeast Asia. See, for instance, Zachary Abuza.

 

 https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/vietnam-humor-10102022175726.html

 

https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/vietnam-politics-03122023093639.html

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, NoDisplayName said:

 

Deflect, deflect deflect.  This particular anti-Trump rant is about cutting spending.  Do try to stay on topic.

 

But to answer your irrevelant question, not enough.

 

Must cut more.

 

We could close down a hundred or so overseas bases, we could cut support for genocide, we could abolish the DOE and let states run their own school systems, we could limit regime-change operations, we could audit the pentagon, we could audit purchases made on government credit cards, we could cut funding to NPR and PBS and CPB........oh, there's so much that can be cut from the budget.

 

It's gonna be gloriously MAGAnificent!

 

 

 

 

The adjective you are trying to use is IRRELEVANT.  MAGA posters want to cut back on education, so they can drag everyone down to their own ignorant level.

 

Please do close down your bases in Australia. It just makes us a nuclear target. We get nothing in return, except getting slapped with tariffs.

 

Thanks to the craven you have in the White House, you are a worthless, faithless and gutless ally.