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MUSK Team given Access to 15 FED AGENCIES to Look for Waste, Fraud & Abuse! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's kickbacks.
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  Speaker 2: So what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: And I've had a great help with Elon Musk, who's
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  Speaker 1: been terrific. Then I'm going to tell him to go
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  Speaker 1: check the Department of Education. Then I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: to the military.
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  Speaker 2: Let's check the military.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: of fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Monday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to
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  Speaker 4: have you with us. And these are the big stories
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  Speaker 4: we're covering today on the forty seven Morning Update. First up,
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  Speaker 4: Democrats are losing their mind as Elon Musk and his
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  Speaker 4: team have now gained more access to a total of
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  Speaker 4: fifteen government agencies. What are they fighting? I'll have it
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  Speaker 4: for you in just a moment. Democrats also trying to
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  Speaker 4: figure out how they are going to fight back against
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. And in story number two, elam Omar goes
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  Speaker 4: on National TV to say that Donald Trump is in
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  Speaker 4: essence a dictator and a tyrant when he's just been
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  Speaker 4: on the job for three weeks. And finally, we have
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  Speaker 4: the list of the likely tax cuts that could save
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  Speaker 4: you and your family a ton of money that Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump wants in the Reconciliation Bill will have those details
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  Speaker 4: as well. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it
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  Speaker 4: starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: If there's one thing that Donald Trump has done that
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  Speaker 4: has really made the left angry, it's the fact that
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  Speaker 4: he's exposing the waste of fraud and the good old
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  Speaker 4: abuse in the United States government. We're also finding out
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  Speaker 4: each and every day just how bad things have gotten.
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  Speaker 4: And now it seems clear that Donald Trump is saying
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  Speaker 4: to Elon Musk and his team, go find it all.
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk and his team have now swept into fifteen agencies,
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  Speaker 4: and this is what we know. Staffers and allies of
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  Speaker 4: Musk and his service are well fanning out across Washington
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  Speaker 4: in the last week, especially seeking access to data and
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  Speaker 4: disrupting operations in at least fifteen government agencies in pursuit
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  Speaker 4: of dramatically smaller federal government. DOGE, which you know stands
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  Speaker 4: for the Department of Government Efficiency, has not disclosed the
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  Speaker 4: names of its staff members, but the Washington Post is
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  Speaker 4: trying to do a let's out you list. They've identified
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  Speaker 4: now more than thirty people working for closely with by
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  Speaker 4: examining the internal directories they claim a multiple agencies and
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  Speaker 4: interviewing numerous federal workers, virtually all of whom spoke on
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  Speaker 4: condition of eminemity to fear for quote, major retaliation. Now,
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  Speaker 4: this is when you know that Elon Musk is getting
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  Speaker 4: somewhere in Donald Trump. When you have this many people
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  Speaker 4: inside the government that are trying to undermine the people
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  Speaker 4: that are working with Doge, They're hoping that they can
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  Speaker 4: get them in trouble or find a way to get
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  Speaker 4: them fired. Now, about half of those identified have ties
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  Speaker 4: to Musk or his companies. Why well, these are clearly
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  Speaker 4: the people that he trusts with his companies and also
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  Speaker 4: people that operate at another level when it comes to intellect. Now,
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  Speaker 4: among those are young people, and the reality is many
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  Speaker 4: on the Democratic Party are angry at the fact that
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  Speaker 4: many of these people working for Elon Musk are young
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  Speaker 4: in their twenties. Another way of putting it, it's clear
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  Speaker 4: age discrimination. They don't like the fact that young people
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  Speaker 4: are coming in and looking at ways to cost cut
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  Speaker 4: or looking for the waste, fraud and abuse and exposing it.
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  Speaker 4: The way that Elon Musk is on X. What's also
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  Speaker 4: very interesting about what's happening now is much of the waste, fraud,
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  Speaker 4: and abuse is being exposed instantly because Elon Musk will
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  Speaker 4: get the information, then he checks and verifies it, and
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  Speaker 4: then he's putting it out on social media, so that
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  Speaker 4: you know, before the media can protect or stop the
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  Speaker 4: story from ever being written. He's going around the media now.
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump was asked in an interview during the halftime
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  Speaker 4: of the Super Bowl on Sunday night if he trusts
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk, because again, what is the left doing trying
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  Speaker 4: to tell you that Elon Musk and his staff cannot
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  Speaker 4: be trusted. What did Donald Trump say, Take a listen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's kickbacks or what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: but the people, look, I ran on this, and the
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  Speaker 1: people want me to find it. And I've had a
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  Speaker 1: great help with Elon Musk, who's been terrific.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on, you say you trust him?
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  Speaker 1: Trust Elon? Oh, he's not gaining anything. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: wonder how he can devote the time to it. He's
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  Speaker 1: so into it. But I told him to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Then I'm going to tell him very soon, like maybe
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  Speaker 1: in twenty four hours to go check the Department of Education.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to find the same thing. Then I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the military. Let's check the military. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of
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  Speaker 1: fraud and abuse. And you know, the people elected me on.
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  Speaker 4: That hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 4: It was very clear the President was saying to you,
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  Speaker 4: the American people, you told me what the mandate was.
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  Speaker 4: You wanted me to cut the size of government. You
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  Speaker 4: wanted me to make sure that they weren't wasting your
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  Speaker 4: tax dollars. You wanted to make sure that your money
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  Speaker 4: was going to America first policies. That is exactly what
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump is delivering on, and he's expanding the scope
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  Speaker 4: of where he's looking for all of the government waste, fraud.
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  Speaker 2: And abuse. Now story number two, it is very.
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  Speaker 4: Clear Democrats are trying to find their footing and how
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  Speaker 4: they're going to deal with all the successes over the
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  Speaker 4: last three weeks of Donald Trump's agenda. They understand now
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  Speaker 4: that they've got to come up with some plan to
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  Speaker 4: undermine him. The media is obviously on board to help
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  Speaker 4: with that. Alam Omar has come out just days after
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  Speaker 4: Democrats already called for a third impeachment of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: from the floor of the House to say that it's
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  Speaker 4: very clear that Donald Trump has decided he will not
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  Speaker 4: abide their claiming by the Constitution. They're now saying he
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  Speaker 4: is a dictator and a tyrant. Well representative. Alam Omar
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday on CBS Facination had a few other things
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  Speaker 4: to say about Donald Trump. This is their game plan
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  Speaker 4: of how they're going to undermine him. Listen carefully to
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  Speaker 4: the word she uses.
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  Speaker 5: We're joined now by Democratic Congressman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: Good to have you here. You have spoken quite a
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  Speaker 5: bit this week about what USAID meant in your life,
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  Speaker 5: particularly when you were living in a refugee camp for
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  Speaker 5: four years and USAID you talked about helping to keep
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  Speaker 5: you alive. We know this week a federal judge will
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  Speaker 5: come to some kind of hearing and decision perhaps on
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  Speaker 5: what happens to all those government workers. Are the courts
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  Speaker 5: the main line of defense here?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis.
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  Speaker 6: We are seeing an executive branch that has decided that
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  Speaker 6: they are no longer going to abide by the Constitution
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  Speaker 6: in honoring Congress's role in the creation of the agencies,
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  Speaker 6: in their role in deciding where money is allocated. And
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  Speaker 6: so the only recourse we have since our congressional leadership
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  Speaker 6: the Speaker will not stop the executive is through the judiciary.
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  Speaker 6: And this is you know, when you think about the
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  Speaker 6: checks and balances that we have, the courts are the
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  Speaker 6: only recourse we have at the moment, and we have
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  Speaker 6: seen and when we talk about the illegality of what
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  Speaker 6: the executive is doing, we have seen every single executive
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  Speaker 6: order that has been challenged in the courts was found
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  Speaker 6: to be illegal. And that I think should give faith
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  Speaker 6: to the American people that our courts are working as
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  Speaker 6: they should. The checks and balances are working. What is
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  Speaker 6: not working is the way that the executive is behaving
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  Speaker 6: and the congressional leadership that is failing the American people.
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  Speaker 5: Well, some of these court cases are ongoing.
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  Speaker 4: So by the way, let's just be clear over what
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  Speaker 4: she just said. She just claimed that the court systems
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  Speaker 4: had stopped Donald try up on every executive order. That
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  Speaker 4: is a lie. And as you could even hear there,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm sure this was hard for them to do.
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  Speaker 4: A CBS Face the Nation. They even tried to somewhat
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  Speaker 4: correct her and say, well, these are ongoing, He's only
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  Speaker 4: been present for three weeks. How can you make such
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  Speaker 4: an egregious claim. You also have to remember who the
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  Speaker 4: Democrats are putting out on TV. Face The Democratic Party
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  Speaker 4: now has become so radical they decide to put a
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  Speaker 4: congresswoman out there as their faced this week on Face
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  Speaker 4: the Nation, a woman that referred to the nine to
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  Speaker 4: eleven Terris as some people that did some things. We
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  Speaker 4: also are finding out that the Democrats are putting different
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  Speaker 4: extremists out there to try to find out a way
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  Speaker 4: to undermine the president. You noticed in the beginning of
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  Speaker 4: that interview, Margaret Brennan is talking about we know that
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  Speaker 4: USAID meant so much to you and your life. Why
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  Speaker 4: did she say that, Well, it's very clear they're trying
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  Speaker 4: to cover for the abuse, waste, the fraud coming from
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  Speaker 4: USAID and even the funneling of money to actual Harris.
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  Speaker 4: So what better person have on TV to defend the
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  Speaker 4: program than a woman that refers to the nine to
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  Speaker 4: eleven hijackers as some people that did some things. Now
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  Speaker 4: Omar was not done there. She also went on to
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  Speaker 4: say this. I mean, what we're witnessing is a constitutional crisis.
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  Speaker 4: We are seeing executive brands that has decided they no
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  Speaker 4: longer are going to abide by the Constitution and honoring
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  Speaker 4: Congress's role in the creation of the agencies and their
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  Speaker 4: role and in deciding where money is allocated. So now,
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  Speaker 4: what does she say? You have a president of the
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  Speaker 4: United States of America that has gone rogue. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's pretty clear the Democrats are now trying anything they
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  Speaker 4: can to get their footing, whether it's impeaching Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: or saying he's a dictator or a tyrant or someone
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  Speaker 4: not abiding by the constitution, all because Democrats don't know
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  Speaker 4: what to do because there's so much winning going on
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  Speaker 4: in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: And lastly, story number three, I have.
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  Speaker 4: An important list for you today, and is the list
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  Speaker 4: of the likely tax cuts now Donald Trump wants in
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  Speaker 4: the reconciliation bill. What this means for everyday Americans is
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  Speaker 4: real savings for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: The plan has become even more ambitious, mainly because of
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  Speaker 4: all the well abuse of your tax dollars that the
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration has found in the last three weeks. The
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  Speaker 4: Press Secretary Carolin Levitt came out to explain just one
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  Speaker 4: of the abuses of your tax dollars being used against you,
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  Speaker 4: and it was when the money they found was going
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  Speaker 4: to media outlets including Politico. This is what has spun
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  Speaker 4: the President up to give more of your money back
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  Speaker 4: to you.
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  Speaker 7: So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I
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  Speaker 7: was made aware of the funding from USAID to media
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  Speaker 7: outlets including Politico, who I know has a seat in
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  Speaker 7: this room, and I can confirm that the more than
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  Speaker 7: eight million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing
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  Speaker 7: subscriptions to Politico, the American taxpayer's dying will no longer
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  Speaker 7: be happening. The dog's team is working on canceling those
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  Speaker 7: payments now.
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  Speaker 4: So when they find the money and then they decide
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  Speaker 4: to cancel these types of payments, the question many asked was, well,
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  Speaker 4: what's going to happen next? Well, it now is clear
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  Speaker 4: the president saying he wants you to keep more of
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  Speaker 4: your money and stop giving so much of it to
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  Speaker 4: the government. President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are in
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  Speaker 4: deep negotiations and went all weekend long on a tax
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  Speaker 4: package that a budget watchdog group estimated would actually save
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  Speaker 4: you five to eleven point two trillion over the next decade. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if you read the media's explanation of that, they'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you it's going to cost you between five trillion to
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  Speaker 4: eleven point two trillion. No, no, that's how much the
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  Speaker 4: government will not get from you. A series of tax
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  Speaker 4: policy changes that Trump's supports appear to have broad support
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  Speaker 4: among Republicans in Congress. The Committee for a Responsible Federal
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  Speaker 4: Budget has released a study that projects the cost of
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  Speaker 4: each item over a ten year period is going to
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  Speaker 4: be huge page for you, the American people. Now, on
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  Speaker 4: that list, at the top of it was one big thing,
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  Speaker 4: eliminating taxes on tips. This was a huge promise from
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump during the campaign, something he said he would
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  Speaker 4: work on as soon as he got into the White House.
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  Speaker 4: It would result in a one hundred billion to five
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  Speaker 4: hundred and fifty billion reduction in federal tax revenue, meaning
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  Speaker 4: one hundred to five hundred and fifty billion of taxes
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  Speaker 4: that you wouldn't have to pay to the government. We
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  Speaker 4: also found out exempting overtime pay from federal taxes would
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  Speaker 4: also give two hundred and fifty to three trillion back
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  Speaker 4: into the pockets of American workers, and finally exempting Social
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  Speaker 4: Security benefits from federal taxes would now cost between five
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  Speaker 4: hundred and fifty billion and one point five trillion. That's
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  Speaker 4: how the government is reporting it to the media as
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  Speaker 4: they're trying to keep more of your dollars. So what
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  Speaker 4: does it really mean. It means that Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 4: the Republicans are wanting you to keep between five hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty billion to one point five trillion that you
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  Speaker 4: normally would have paid in taxes. We also have been
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  Speaker 4: told that the present wants to lower taxes for US
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  Speaker 4: production of certain goods that would save you between one
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  Speaker 4: hundred to two hundred billion, and reducing tax benefits for
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  Speaker 4: stadium owners and ending the carried interest loophole. They would
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  Speaker 4: also save the taxpayers one hundred billion dollars. Now, all
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  Speaker 4: of this is being put together in one of the
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  Speaker 4: biggest tax plans we've ever seen. But this is not
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  Speaker 4: a big tax plan that's going to raise your taxes.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to go down in history as one of
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  Speaker 4: the biggest tax cuts in American history. And this is
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  Speaker 4: the reason why Democrats right now are so terrified of
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump and his success, because three weeks in we
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  Speaker 4: also know that Donald Trump has a new high approval rating,
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  Speaker 4: meaning the American people are paying attention and the American
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  Speaker 4: people are in favor of exactly what Donald Trump is doing.
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