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Streamlining the State-Trump's Federal Overhaul in Full Effect · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There is a lot to be cheering for right now
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Speaker 1: in this country, especially when it comes to getting rid
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Speaker 1: of fraud, waste, and abuse. The President of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America not stopping when it comes to fighting
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Speaker 1: to make sure that America is first. There are also
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Speaker 1: new words coming out about tariffs and what those will
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Speaker 1: look like is those on the left are continue to
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Speaker 1: lie about the tariffs and what the actually plans are.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Trump has announced a reciprocal tariff plan. What countries charge us,
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Speaker 1: we will charge them. In a new move, the President
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Speaker 1: said a memorandum announcing that he would introduce a plan
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Speaker 1: to impose reciprocal tariffs on all countries at tariff US exports.
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Speaker 1: Trump discussed this memo, which you knowed, we'll quote introduce
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Speaker 1: the fair and reciprocal plan, while flanked by his nominee
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Speaker 1: for Commerce Secretary in the Oval Office. The move came
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Speaker 1: just hours before he was set to meet with the
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Speaker 1: Indian Prime Minister as well, sending a clear message that
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Speaker 1: now is at the time to mess with America. It's
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Speaker 1: different now than it has been before and on trade, I.
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Speaker 3: Have decided, for purposes of fairness, that I will charge
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Speaker 3: a reciprocal tariff meeting. Whatever countries charged the United States
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Speaker 3: of America, we will charge them no more, no less.
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Speaker 3: In other words, they charge us a text or tariff,
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Speaker 3: and we charge them the exact same texts or terriff.
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Speaker 3: First of all, nobody knows what that number is unless
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Speaker 3: you go by the individual country. You can see what
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Speaker 3: it is. If you go to the individual country and
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Speaker 3: you look at what they're charging us. In almost all
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Speaker 3: cases they're charging us vastly more than we charge them.
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Speaker 3: But those days are over.
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Speaker 2: Those days are over.
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Speaker 1: It is obvious that the present's not messing around anymore
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Speaker 1: when it comes to putting America last. Like the last
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Speaker 1: administration did on trade courte, I decided, for purposes of
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Speaker 1: fairness that I will charge a reciprocal tariff.
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Speaker 2: It's up to the other country.
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Speaker 1: In other words, you want to charge a ten percent,
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Speaker 1: We're going to charge you ten percent. You want to
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Speaker 1: go fifteen, we'll go fifteen. You want to go fifty,
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Speaker 1: we'll go fifteen. Other words, they charge us at tax
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Speaker 1: or tariff, and we charge them the exact same tax
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Speaker 1: or tariff. Now Trump bad that other countries charge vastly more,
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Speaker 1: and he is correct.
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Speaker 2: He said that day is over.
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Speaker 1: The memo itself notes this, it is the policy of
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Speaker 1: the United States to reduce our large and persistent annual
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Speaker 1: trade deficit in goods and to address other unfair and
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Speaker 1: unbalanced aspects of our trade with foreign trading partners. In
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Speaker 1: pursuit of this policy, I will introduce the Fair and
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Speaker 1: Reciprocal Plan. Under the Plan, my administration will work to
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Speaker 1: counter non reciprocal trading arrangements with trading partners to by
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Speaker 1: determining the equivalent of a reciprocal tariff with respect to
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Speaker 1: each foreign trading partner. A White House fact sheet on
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Speaker 1: the memo also states that the plan will put the
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Speaker 1: American work first, improve our competitiveness in every area of
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Speaker 1: the industry, reduce our trade deficit, and bolster our economic
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Speaker 1: and national security. The administration provided several examples of trade imbalances.
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Speaker 1: For instance, Brazil charges a eighteen percent tariff on ethanol
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Speaker 1: imported from the US, while the US has a one
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Speaker 1: point five percent tariff on ethanol imports, marking a significant
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Speaker 1: disparity with Brazil on this front. The document also points
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Speaker 1: out an imbalance with India, which the present was meeting
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Speaker 1: with after he made this announcement. The US average applied
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Speaker 1: most favored nation tariff on agricultural goods is five percent,
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Speaker 1: but India's average applied tariff is thirty nine percent. India
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Speaker 1: also charges one hundred percent tariff on US motorcycles, while
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Speaker 1: we only charge a two point four percent tariff on
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Speaker 1: Indian motorcycles. The fact sheet shows this is an example
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Speaker 1: of America being last in our policies, and now he's
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Speaker 1: going to change that. So you want to charge one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent tariff on US motorcycles coming into India, that's fine,
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Speaker 1: but when you bring him into this country, it'll be
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent as well. Trump, who said in the
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Speaker 1: campaign trail in October that the most beautiful word in
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Speaker 1: the dictionary is tariff, has made headlines using tariffs in
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Speaker 1: the first weeks of his administration and other headline reads today.
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Speaker 1: There has been a pause in implementing the twenty five
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Speaker 1: percent tariffs Trump placed on Canada Mexico earlier this month
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Speaker 1: after the countries took measures to increase security at the
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Speaker 1: border that they share with the United States America.
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Speaker 2: That was what he wanted.
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Speaker 1: Vice President Jeddie Vance, during an interview this week at
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Speaker 1: the West Wing Office, detailed four distinct purposes for the tariff,
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Speaker 1: saying this quote.
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Speaker 2: A friend of mine.
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Speaker 1: Talked about how tariff's actually accomplished four things. They can
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Speaker 1: be used as diplomatic leverage. That's number one. Number two,
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Speaker 1: they can raise revenue. Number three, they can reshore industries.
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Speaker 1: And number four, they can help us build economic relationships,
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Speaker 1: because it is if you're putting tariffs on one country,
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Speaker 1: you're not putting tariffs on another, or not necessarily, so
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Speaker 1: it gives opportunity there. And it's really interesting that for
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty years, America became the wealthiest, most prosperous,
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Speaker 1: and most powerful country in the world by using tariffs,
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Speaker 1: sometimes selectively, sometimes more aggressively. But it's like the entire
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Speaker 1: last fifty years, they become a dirty word. Why Again,
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Speaker 1: it's the bias towards inaction versus the bias towards action.
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Speaker 1: He went on to say, So, the President is not
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Speaker 1: backing down. The media is trying to make this worst
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Speaker 1: case scenario and they're trying to make it where somehow
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Speaker 1: Americans are being hurt by every decision that Donald Trump makes.
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Speaker 1: The problem is the American people still.
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Speaker 2: Aren't buying it. They're not believing the media. Right now,
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Speaker 2: and they're not believing.
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Speaker 1: The left, which is great for everyone because in twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: I honestly don't think Donald Trump could be doing what
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Speaker 1: he's doing right now now. Also, Doge has Dems defending
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Speaker 1: every crazy waste of money that is out there. That
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Speaker 1: is something else that is great about what's happened here.
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Speaker 2: And we now have.
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Speaker 1: Found out that the layoffs are coming. This is another major,
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Speaker 1: big part of this conversation that people should be very
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Speaker 1: excited about. Take a listen to this from Fox News about.
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Speaker 4: The layoffs, not laying hands, but laying people off.
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Speaker 2: Or hangovers that are not going to go away. That's right.
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Speaker 4: Well, Doge this week is laying off get this, three thousand,
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Speaker 4: six hundred probationary employees, four thousand employees retained, and so
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Speaker 4: then the savings is six.
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Speaker 5: Hundred million dollars.
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Speaker 4: So I guess a probationary doesn't mean they're on probation.
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Speaker 4: It means that they were just recently hired and they're
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Speaker 4: during this probationary period, which makes it easier for DOGE
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Speaker 4: and the government to let go of them if they
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Speaker 4: decide that their jobs are not necessary.
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Speaker 5: Well, and this is a guy with Elon Musk. We
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Speaker 5: saw when he took over Twitter. I mean he slashed
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Speaker 5: a lot of the employees. It's still running just fine.
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Speaker 5: But the biggest problem where we are now as a
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Speaker 5: country with our federal government, it's too big. This wasn't
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Speaker 5: this is not supposed This is not the original vision
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Speaker 5: of America. We were supposed to have a decentralized government.
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Speaker 5: That was the whole vision of the founding father. So
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Speaker 5: what we have now is the antithesis of what America
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Speaker 5: is supposed to be. And when government becomes so centralized
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Speaker 5: and so big, it becomes corrupt, correct, And that's what
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Speaker 5: we're saying. And that's what we saw with the Biden
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Speaker 5: administration going after people under the Face Act, going after
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Speaker 5: its political opponents without fear. And so what this election
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Speaker 5: is about is the American people taking their power back.
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Speaker 5: It's a We the People election, and we're seeing a
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Speaker 5: we the People administration.
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Speaker 2: You look at these in the way that Fox discussed this.
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Speaker 1: DOGE lays off three thousand, six hundred probationary HHS employees,
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Speaker 1: saving six hundred million dollars annually. We're not saving a
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Speaker 1: million here and a million year. What DOGE is doing
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Speaker 1: is they're saving US billions here and billions there, six
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Speaker 1: hundred million just from this one move. As it was described,
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Speaker 1: you have three thousand and six hundred people costing US
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Speaker 1: six hundred million dollars annually, and they're going.
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Speaker 2: To be out of a job.
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Speaker 1: As a department of government efficiency shines a light on
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Speaker 1: government waste.
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Speaker 2: Every American should be.
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Speaker 1: Glad about this, this happening on Friday.
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Speaker 2: Many were excluded from the layoffs.
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Speaker 1: According to Fox News, the move may result in taxpayers
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Speaker 1: saving six hundred million dollars every year, adding that over
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Speaker 1: half of the HHS's probationary workers remained with the agency.
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Speaker 2: The outlet continued.
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Speaker 1: Doge identified critical employees by first considering key functions of
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Speaker 1: HHS frontline healthcare providers, scientists conducting innovative research, personnel responding
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Speaker 1: to emergencies, followed by employee roles including work history, background,
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Speaker 1: and job title screenings. In many case, this is where
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Speaker 1: there was a lack of clarity. We work directly with
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Speaker 1: folks who either knew the employees or knew the work
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Speaker 1: of the division to clarify the exact work they were
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Speaker 1: doing and guess what they're like.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, now we can start getting rid of people.
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Speaker 2: We don't need them. This is what Donald Trump was
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Speaker 2: elected to do. When he's doing it.
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Speaker 1: IFCJ dot org. Now, in addition, over sixty five thousand
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Speaker 1: federal workers reportedly accepted President Donald Trump's recent buyout offer.
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Speaker 1: That is the last number that we've got. This number continues,
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Speaker 1: by the way, to be updated. And that is also
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Speaker 1: going to save us an insane amount of money.
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Speaker 2: And that's something else.
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Speaker 1: That people should be really excited about, because it started
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand, then it jumped to forty thousand last week.
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Speaker 1: Then it's at sixty five thousand. That number we're hearing
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Speaker 1: maybe up to eighty this week, but for sure, now
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Speaker 1: it's more than sixty five thousand federal workers that have
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Speaker 1: reportedly accepted the Trump administration's buyout offer. As this federal
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Speaker 1: judge was jumping in on the matter and YadA, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: It's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Like I'm telling you, it's going to happen. Why are
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Speaker 1: these federal employees taking this buyout because they don't want
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Speaker 1: to work.
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Speaker 2: That's what it boils down to.
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Speaker 1: These people don't want to come into an office and
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Speaker 1: they don't want to work, so they're accepting the offer
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Speaker 1: from the Trump administration to either quit their government job
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Speaker 1: willingly with extended pay and benefits, or stay at risk
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Speaker 1: of being downsize anyway. So it's like the perfect scenario
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Speaker 1: where it's like, hey, if you want to roll the
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Speaker 1: dice instead because you think you're essential, then knock yourself out.
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Speaker 1: But if you think you're you know, probably like worthless employee,
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Speaker 1: take the money and the benefits and walk away with
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Speaker 1: some cash in your hand.
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Speaker 2: Here's what it says.
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Speaker 1: Quote, if you resign under this program, you'll retain all
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Speaker 1: paid benefits regardless of your daily workload, and will be
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Speaker 1: exempted from all applicable in person work requirements until September
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Speaker 1: thirtieth of twenty twenty five, or earlier if you choose
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Speaker 1: to accelerate your resignation for any reason. The memo, sent
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Speaker 1: in January to roughly two million federal employees reads in
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Speaker 1: part warning that employees who wish to stay will face
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Speaker 1: quote enhanced standards of suitability and conduct, and still there
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Speaker 1: would be the risk of elimination as government agencies planned
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Speaker 1: to downsize via restructuring, realignments, and reductions in force. So
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Speaker 1: they're letting you know, like beware, there's a very good
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Speaker 1: chance that you could still lose your job. So if
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Speaker 1: you're thinking about, you know, like leaving, or you're thinking
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Speaker 1: about being lazy, or you don't really want to work,
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Speaker 1: or you don't want to come into work, you better
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Speaker 1: take the free money. I just got by the way,
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Speaker 1: I text, I text the Congressman while we were chatting
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Speaker 1: about this, and I got I said, hey, do we
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Speaker 1: have an upbead number?
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Speaker 2: You said, it's going to be closer to ninety thousand who.
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Speaker 1: Are going to take the offer, and that number they
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Speaker 1: expect to actually rise from there. That represents about three
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Speaker 1: percent of those that were offered the deal. A large
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Speaker 1: job cut by many measures, but short of what the
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Speaker 1: White House's goal was. The White House went to slash
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Speaker 1: between five and ten percent of the federal workforce through buyouts.
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Speaker 1: Now what that means is there's still going to be
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Speaker 1: more cuts coming after the federal workers that quit. Now
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Speaker 1: this ninety grand let's call it ninety thousand, all right,
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Speaker 1: that looks like the reality the number is going to
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Speaker 1: get there follows the offer extending to workers in the
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Speaker 1: Department of Home in Security, cyber Security, and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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Speaker 1: A federal judge in Massachusetts, by the way, got involved
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Speaker 1: in this on all of this triggered by a federal
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Speaker 1: worker union lawsuit. The White House also confirmed like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we're still moving forward and we're not worried about it.
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Speaker 1: Earlier in the week, the White House officials said sixty
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Speaker 1: five thousand workers had signed up to leave their jobs
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Speaker 1: while being paid until September thirtieth, and the preceretery Caroline
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Speaker 1: Levitt described federal employees who have been working remotely as lazy,
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Speaker 1: saying they don't want to come into the office and
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Speaker 1: if they want to rip the American people off, then
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Speaker 1: they're welcome to take this buyout now. The news also
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Speaker 1: comes as the Department of Government Efficiency and it's head
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Speaker 1: Musque are saying they're focused on downsides and the size
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Speaker 1: of government. This is wins for the American taxpayer in
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Speaker 1: a variety of ways, including the termination of federal diversity,
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Speaker 1: equity and inclusion contracts, consulting contracts, federal subscriptions to establish
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Speaker 1: media organizations, the amount of money that he is saving
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Speaker 1: us right now is so great Doe just saving us
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Speaker 1: and Elad Musk is saving us that there is If
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Speaker 1: you look at the national debt clock, and this is
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Speaker 1: one of those things I would actually tell you that
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Speaker 1: you should look at because the national debt clock.
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Speaker 2: Is something that I look at often.
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Speaker 1: I actually have the tab saved on my computer, so
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Speaker 1: because I look at it all the time. Right now,
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Speaker 1: debt per citizen in this country is one hundred and
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Speaker 1: seven two hundred and twenty dollars. Now, not every citizen, right,
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Speaker 1: because there's some that are handicapped, there's some that are retired,
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Speaker 1: there are some that are unemployed, don't make any money.
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Speaker 1: There are many Americans who are under the age of
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Speaker 1: eighteen that don't pay taxes. So if you actually look
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Speaker 1: at that amount of money and you do debt per taxpayer,
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Speaker 1: the number is three hundred and twenty three thousand per
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Speaker 1: taxpayers what we have in national debt, and this number
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Speaker 1: is just continue to skyrocket. Now if you look at
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Speaker 1: our US federal debt to GDP ratio, to put it
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Speaker 1: in perspective, in nineteen eighty it was at thirty four percent.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to know where we are now?
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Speaker 1: We're at one hundred and twenty three percent our US
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Speaker 1: federal debt to GDP ratio. We were at thirty four
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Speaker 1: percent in nineteen eighty. We are now one hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty three percent and rising. The interest on our national
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Speaker 1: debt is over a trillion dollars. Okay, the largest budget
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Speaker 1: items in our budget right now. The fourth largest budget
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Speaker 1: item is interest. So Medicare and Medicaid is our largest
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Speaker 1: budget item at one point six trillion. Social Security is
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Speaker 1: one point four eight eight trillion, Defense is eight hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty billion, so little less than a trillion. And
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Speaker 1: then the interest on our debt is over a trillion
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Speaker 1: at one trillion and change. That's how messed up our
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Speaker 1: budget is right now. And this doesn't just fix itself.
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Speaker 1: That's why Donald Trump and Elon Musker doing what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: So there is now a Doge clock which is actually
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Speaker 1: showing that we're going in the other direction. The Doge clock,
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Speaker 1: if you go to the US Debt clock out of ORG.
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Speaker 1: It's is the Department of Government Efficiency Advisory Commission, the
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Speaker 1: Real Time Saving Objective for reducing government waste, fraud, abuse
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Speaker 1: and federal government agencies. And then there's the clock up
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Speaker 1: there right now, and it's awesome because the doge clock
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Speaker 1: right now is one that is just skyrocketing. How much
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Speaker 1: money we're saving is there and you can see it,
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Speaker 1: and it's real. This is what Americans voted Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: in office to do.
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Speaker 2: This is what they wanted.
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Speaker 1: So not only are these employees getting this buyout, but
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Speaker 1: these employees are also you know, there's also people that
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Speaker 1: are gonna get fired, and that's part of it. I'll
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Speaker 1: give you another example of just some of the fraud
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Speaker 1: and abuse that has come out over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: The USDA has.
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Speaker 1: Now acted millions in contracts, including two hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: thousand for Brazilian forest and gender consultant.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna let that marinate for a second.
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Speaker 1: It's not even in America, and we're spending two hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty thousand for a Brazilian force and gender consultant.
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Speaker 1: So what does that do?
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Speaker 2: All right? Tell you more of the story.
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Speaker 1: The U s Department of Agriculture knows the USDA has
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Speaker 1: slashed millions in contracts that we're active under the Biden administration. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is just pure money laundering, okay, including for a
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Speaker 1: Brazilian force and gender consultant. And a Central American gender
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Speaker 1: assessment consultant. The new Secretary of Agriculture Agriculture Brooke Rawlins
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Speaker 1: announced the cuts Friday, saying that the department is terminated
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Speaker 1: seventy eight contracts totally more than one hundred and thirty
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Speaker 1: two million.
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Speaker 2: That's costing you the taxpayers.
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Speaker 1: Roland said one thousand contracts are also currently under review
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Speaker 1: for potential termination. The findings are the result of review
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Speaker 1: by Elon muss led Department of Government of Efficiency, saying quote,
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Speaker 1: I want to welcome doge's efforts at USDA because we
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Speaker 1: know that its work makes us better, stronger, faster, and
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Speaker 1: more efficient. I will expect full access and transparency to
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Speaker 1: dogs in the days and the weeks to come.
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Speaker 2: So this is an example.
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Speaker 1: Now among the one hundred and thirty two million in
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Speaker 1: terminated contracts, here are some of the highlights. Two point
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Speaker 1: seven seven million in media contracts, including Politico subscriptions. So
19:41
Speaker 1: this is how we were subsidizing Politico to then attack conservatives, right,
19:46
Speaker 1: we were paying them for state sponsored media. Three hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy four thousand for diversity, equity inclusion on boarding specialists.
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Speaker 1: That's gone two hundred and twenty nine thousand for Brazilian
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Speaker 1: Force and Gender Consultant. That's gone twenty nine thousand for
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Speaker 1: Essential American Gender Assessment Consultant. It's not a joke. Your
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Speaker 1: tax dollers are going to that. One hundred and twenty
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Speaker 1: one thousand for a Women in Forced Carbon Initiative membership program,
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell that means. Two hundred and fifty four
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Speaker 1: thousand for diversity dialogue workshops, ninety one thousand for training, education,
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Speaker 1: and access to professional and economic opportunities for women and
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Speaker 1: increasing their participation in climate change adoption activities in African,
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Speaker 1: Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Caribbean regions.
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Speaker 1: sounds like, like all of these just file them under
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Speaker 2: It's just spot on.
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Speaker 1: Sending Ukrainians to Paris for fashion week, that's apparently something
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Speaker 1: very important now is money going that way I got
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Speaker 1: you that's supposed to apparently happen like you're just supposed to,
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Speaker 1: you know, send people from all over the world to
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Speaker 1: go to fashion Week, and your tax dollars are paying
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Speaker 2: Now, I'll say it over and over again. We don't
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Speaker 2: have any of this money.
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Speaker 1: We're borrowing this money, so we're now paying taxes on
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Speaker 1: this money.
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Speaker 2: Right So, all of.
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Speaker 1: This money that we're talking about, every single bit of
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Speaker 1: what I'm mentioning to you right now, we are not
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Speaker 1: writing a check.
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Speaker 2: We're borrowing the damn money.
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Speaker 1: One point five million for Dei in Serbia because apparently
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Speaker 1: in Serbia they're real into Dei. You can insert yes
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Speaker 1: sarcasm there. Seventy thousand for Dei musical in Ireland. I
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Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I don't give a crap
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Speaker 1: about Ireland's musicals. I don't care if they're Dei or
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Speaker 1: Undi related. I just don't care, like I don't care.
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Speaker 1: Forty seven thousand for a transgender opera in Colombia.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: If they ever did the Colombian transgendered opera, my guess
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Speaker 1: would be probably not. That would be my guest call
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Speaker 1: me old school, but my guess is that's probably a no.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: My guess is they probably didn't, and it's another way
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Speaker 1: to launder money. Now, if they did, it's just another
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Speaker 1: example of waste of money. And somebody got paid big
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Speaker 1: on this thirty two thousand for a transgendered comic book
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Speaker 1: in Peru because our money is supposed to be going
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Speaker 1: to that, and that apparently that's not a waste of money.
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Speaker 2: That's like a solid thing.
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Speaker 1: We should just spend cash on that and we should
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Speaker 1: celebrate a transgender you know, comic book.
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Speaker 2: Two million.
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Speaker 1: We actually paid for sex change operations in Guatemala. Now
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Speaker 1: I don't know like what Timmy became Susie or what
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Speaker 1: Susie became Bob out of that, but you paid for it. Again,
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Speaker 1: we don't have any of this money. We're borrowing all
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Speaker 1: of this money. Uh, And this is what we do.
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Speaker 1: We just throw money all over the damn place and
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Speaker 1: we just say, yeah, let's just keep doing it over
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Speaker 1: and over and over and over again. One million to
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Speaker 1: help disabled people in Tazakhstan become climate leaders. Now, you know,
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna build climate leaders, like, why can't you
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Speaker 1: just pick people that want to like actually care about
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Speaker 1: the climate, why they have to be disabled specifically.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you get more money that way. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just another way to have people funnel money
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Speaker 1: and it's hard to say no to it, right, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, Like it's I have no idea on this one.
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Speaker 1: Six million we paid to tell people to go to
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Speaker 1: Egypt on tourism, because that is something we should be
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Speaker 1: paying for now, not Egypt. Hell no, no, no, America.
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Speaker 1: We're literally telling people don't come visit America. We're spending
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Speaker 1: six million dollars to tell people come to Egypt instead
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Speaker 1: of coming to America. If that isn't the definition of
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Speaker 1: screwed up, I don't know what is. We're telling people
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Speaker 1: not to come visit America and spend their money in America,
26:42
Speaker 1: and we're telling them to go to Egypt, and we're
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Speaker 1: paying them to actually say go to Egypt. Like again,
26:50
Speaker 1: what world are we living in where this is where
26:53
Speaker 1: our money is going? Fifteen million for contraceptives and condoms
26:58
Speaker 1: in the Taliban control Afghanistan. Now, I haven't done any
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Speaker 1: research on this, but I'm going to go out in
27:04
Speaker 1: a limb here as well and say there's a pretty
27:06
Speaker 1: good chance that the guys in a Taliban aren't exactly
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Speaker 1: that worried about the contra about the condoms or the contraceptives,
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Speaker 1: Like call me old school, I doubt that's their top priority.
27:17
Speaker 1: And then we found out what they were using the
27:19
Speaker 1: contents for was actually to help blow things up. Just
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Speaker 1: want to throw that out there, make sure everybody knows
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Speaker 1: that that that's what they were actually doing with the money.
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Speaker 1: These are the dollars that we are borrowing, and then
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Speaker 1: we are sending that money overseas to people that many
27:38
Speaker 1: of them that hate Americans. I do think that's part
27:41
Speaker 1: of what should be brought up here. A lot of
27:44
Speaker 1: this is people that hate us, and we're giving them
27:48
Speaker 1: this cash and it's flowing now. There's also many other
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Speaker 1: places where this money is going, and the other places
27:55
Speaker 1: where the money is going, and more and more of
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Speaker 1: this is coming out. We've seen it with the layoffs.
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Speaker 1: We're seeing it with the people that don't even come
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Speaker 1: into work. You look at all of you know, the
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Speaker 1: mentality I have right now is just dogit, get rid
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Speaker 1: of it, downsize it, make it smaller. And what Democrats
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Speaker 1: are doing is they're defending every crazy waste of money
28:19
Speaker 1: when they get caught. Senator Erse, a Republican who runs
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Speaker 1: the Doge Caucus and the Senate, said, she said two
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Speaker 1: trillion is going to get cut easily. That's far more
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Speaker 1: than anyone could have imagined. She thinks there's already at
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Speaker 1: a quarter of a trillion. Now they've been at this
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Speaker 1: for three weeks and this is going to be a year.
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Speaker 2: And a half long project. She now says they've.
28:43
Speaker 1: Got the Democrats completely cornered in a position where they've
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Speaker 1: they're defending every single insane expenditure that we've ever had,
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Speaker 1: and they're doing stuff like this all like all these
28:53
Speaker 1: people are finding out all this stuff. We found out
28:55
Speaker 1: so many people were working from home, and that they're
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Speaker 1: at home doing their work from bathtubs and actually posting
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Speaker 1: the pictures on Instagram. That's part of what we're now
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Speaker 1: finding out is that these government employees are undermining Trump's
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Speaker 1: agenda and they're posting pictures of themselves doing their job
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Speaker 1: in their bathtubs, and they're out there and they're obsessed
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Speaker 1: with this, Like they're out there and they're absolutely obsessed
29:20
Speaker 1: with wasting your tax dollars and what Elon Musk is doing,
29:26
Speaker 1: and what DOGE is doing is they're exposing what many
29:29
Speaker 1: are describing as.
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Speaker 2: A money scam. Take a listen to this from Fox.
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Speaker 6: Lannelst and Polster Alex. Now, we just found out late
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Speaker 6: today that DOGE recovered one point nine billion in HUD
29:44
Speaker 6: money that was somehow this is their word misplaced under Biden.
29:50
Speaker 6: If they're capable of losing almost two billion dollars and
29:54
Speaker 6: this is just you know, the first three weeks or so,
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Speaker 6: what comes next?
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Speaker 7: Oh, this is never gonna stop, Laura, And it's so glorious.
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Speaker 7: I got to talk to sanator Ernest who runs the
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Speaker 7: Doge Caucus and the Senate, on my podcast this week,
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Speaker 7: and she said, two trillion is gonna get cut easy.
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Speaker 7: She thinks they're already at a quarter of a trillion. Now,
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Speaker 7: they've been at this for three weeks and this is
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Speaker 7: going to be a year and a half long project. Look,
30:15
Speaker 7: they've got the Democrats completely cornered. To your point here,
30:18
Speaker 7: it's total checkmate. They're now in a position where they're
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Speaker 7: defending every single insane expenditure that we've ever had, and
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Speaker 7: they're doing stuff like all these people who we found
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Speaker 7: out were working at home from their bathtubs and posting
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Speaker 7: on Instagram about it for the federal government undermining Trump's agenda,
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Speaker 7: and they're defending that we need to keep supporting those people.
30:37
Speaker 7: One of the best sound bites I ever saw my
30:39
Speaker 7: life was when Musk was in the Oval office with
30:41
Speaker 7: Trump and one of the reporters tried to dunk on
30:44
Speaker 7: Musk and say, you lied and said that we were
30:47
Speaker 7: paying for condoms in Gaza. It was really condoms and
30:50
Speaker 7: Mosambique Musca when of the best answer I ever heard.
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Speaker 7: First he said, well, first of all, I'm going to
30:54
Speaker 7: get stuff wrong and you can correct it. Totally mature
30:57
Speaker 7: adult response. Then he said, come to think of that,
31:00
Speaker 7: and you see the maschinations of the brain.
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Speaker 2: He's working through it.
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Speaker 7: H condoms and mosiumbeak.
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Speaker 2: Why are we paying for those?
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Speaker 7: And now the Democrats are all one hundred percent unilaterally
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Speaker 7: on the side of the condoms of Mosambique people.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank god we have this map. By the way,
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Speaker 2: I love the way that it was described there. He's
31:16
Speaker 2: absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: They're having to defend every crazy thing now because they
31:20
Speaker 1: hate Doge and the Republicans that much.
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Speaker 2: They hate it that much. That means, by the way,
31:28
Speaker 2: we're winning.
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