If they don't take on Pentagon (and other agencies) procurement practices, as well as cutting defense projects that THE SERVICES say they don't want (congressional pork barrel stuff) all the little .0001 percent budget cuts you want will make essentially ZERO difference.
Your priorities are misplaced.

Government research should be patented and licensed.
Taxpayers should share in the profits.

^^ This^^
The convoluted tax code exists so those with top tier incomes, CPAs and lawyers can not be suckers.
The Bigliest authority and all the oligarchs we saw on stage with him are all about this.

Are you The Donald?
I didn't know for sure he was posting here, though I have suspected it many times.
I am increasingly convinced, based on the reasoning nestled in the incoherent sentences.

States or their subdivisions are responsible for almost all educational policy.
The DOE basically handed out money, particularly to the states who were unwilling to adequately fund their educational systems with their own state taxes.

They also sought corrective action when states were discriminating against disfavored minorities.
Many, particularly Red statists, might not like some of the minorities DOE was defending - which was exactly the point.

As mentioned elsewhere, the Blue vs Red state outcomes can be stark (to the point of resembling your quoted text), and your pointing the finger at DOE is misinformed, or more likely, disingenuous.

Enemy of the United States Law and Legal Definition
According to 50 USCS 2204 [Title 50. War and National Defense; Chapter 39. Spoils of War], enemy of the United States means any country, government, group, or person that has been engaged in hostilities, whether or not lawfully authorized, with the United States;
(3) the term "person" means
(A) any natural person;
(B) any corporation, partnership, or other legal entity; and
(C) any organization, association, or group.

I think it indisputable that Russia has engaged in hostilities e.g. cyber warfare, possibly including kidnapping our citizens under color of law.

In the US, those sorts of solutions are considered Marxist conspiracies to overthrow democracy.
The incoming administration is all about killing off as much of the safety net as possible - they will not be adding anything to it.

QE indicates that there is plenty of physics out there about which we have barely a clue and which we don't understand.
QE seems to demonstrate faster than light action at a distance.
So, faster than light may not be the obstacle it appears to us to be.

Per George Box, “all models are wrong, some are useful”.
Our current and past models of physical reality have proven quite useful.
However, we know our current model is incomplete, at best.

Like many, I am certain life is, was, or will be out there.
Is there any smoking gun evidence?
Not yet.

The AI hype will make the coding hype look like kindergarten...

The above is no exaggeration.
In the USA, as a criminal defendant, you get as much justice as you can afford.
Unless you have committed a heinous or otherwise high-profile crime, the government is not going to spend a fortune going after you.
A middle class defendant may be able to afford a successful defense, though they will likely be destitute after it's over.
You went bankrupt paying for your defense and being found Not Guilty?
Sorry - no compensation - that's just the price of justice - at least you're not in prison.

A working class defendant? Get measured for your orange jumpsuit now...

As a civil litigant, you get as much justice as you can afford relative to the opposing party .
Against a top 1% mega-corp, the common citizen is toast.
Unless the PR people prevail, this guy will end up with something between nothing and chump change.

Ukraine itself may not be 50x more important than Israel, but stopping Putin's push to restore the Russian Empire is 100x more important.

Do you remember Crimea in 2014?
The world just grumbled at that - that was the Sudetenland in 1938.
Does Poland 1939 mean anything to you?
That is Ukraine today, along with the actual Poland and the Baltics in the not-too-distant future.
Do you want to go down that road, again?

In the 1930s, America was rife with people who thought we should leave the rest of the world to its own troubles.
There were substantial numbers who believed authoritarianism was the future and were supportive of Hitler and Mussolini.
Are you one of them?

You might check with the Sioux, Mayans, Aleuts, et al.
They'll report the country changed a lot.

This is likely just another example of the past, current and future reality of trying to wring a bigger buck out of whatever investors can get their hands on.
I don't begrudge the original developer cashing out.
At some point, it's just time to move on.

So how far are you willing go with letting "nuclear powers do whatever they want"?
I'm guessing you will not bat an eye at Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Are you willing to give up Poland and the rest of the old Eastern Block countries?
That is Putin's stated goal...
I am appalled at the chicken-shit appeasers - especially those in what has become the American Putin party - who have forgotten what happened last time the world shrugged at naked aggression.
I don't think Putin's General Staff is crazy enough to go nuclear over Ukraine and an order to do so would be the end of Putin.
Further:
Taking "nuclear powers do whatever they want" to another place:
France remembers well what the world went through last time this happened.
I don't think France will embrace continuous nuclear blackmail as their future.