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He is: this refers to spending Microsoft had planned on its own outside of Stargate. It says so in the article.



In other words “Stargate” is itself a lie: no new spending, just a political repackaging of existing plans.


That's nothing new, politicians lie all the time.

Everyone's response when a politician announcing some supposed massive spending program should be to say "show me the appropriation bill and receipts, then we can talk."


Appropriation bills don't go as far as they used to anymore as well...


Microsoft has committed $100B to Stargate. These cuts are meaningless by comparison.




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