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Math Question for White House: Which Is Greater, $100K or $9.2 Billion?

Published 2017-07-28 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

Where's that chart with conversion factors showing a Trump dollar is worth 100,000 budget dollars?
Where’s that chart with conversion factors showing a Trump dollar is worth 100,000 budget dollars? [Photo by Kate Bennett, CNN]
The White House says Donald Trump “demonstrated his dedication to America’s heroes of tomorrow by announcing his second-quarter salary will be donated to the Department of Education.” That $100,000 donation will pay for a camp teaching kids about STEM careers. The camp does not yet exist, but Trump’s daughter Ivanka thinks it’s a good idea.

That $100,000 worth of dedication is 0.001% of the $9.2 billion that Trump has proposed cutting from the Department of Education. My daughter doesn’t have to become a scientist, engineer, or mathematician (though she might, despite our misogynist, anti-intellectual President) to tell you that $9.2 billion is greater than $100,000.

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