• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    Given the astronomical budget of this agency, which is equivalent to the military spending of medium-sized countries, this is unfortunately highly unlikely.

    And, as others have already said: it is the citizens who pay for all of it.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      We pay for it by the erosion of the tolerant pluralistic democracy that we inherited but are not presently keeping