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@bennyjohnson - Benny Johnson
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk and DOGE have gained access to Treasury payment systems. https://t.co/jY4qFxJc2V
reSee.it AI Summary
DOGE has gained access to the US Treasury System, which I believe will lead to significant revelations. I’m concerned about former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who made over $7 million in speaking fees and seemed to support using taxpayer funds to boost China's economy. Who are these people really working for?
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
DOGE has just gained access to the US Treasury System, this is going to be insane The previous Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was bribed by Wall Street, making over $7 MILLION in “speaking fees” She also openly worked to use US Taxpayer funds to build China’s Economy Janet Yellen encourages using Federal Funds for “The building of the Chinese Economy” Who have these people been working for? I think that’s very clear DOGE is going to find some INSANE corruption
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Is there a national purpose in encouraging Americans to invest in Chinese equities? I'm not aware of one. Generally, our view is that both inward and outward investments are economically beneficial. However, many members of Congress do not believe that building the Chinese economy is a good use of federal funds.
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Speaker 0: Why do we wanna is there a national purpose in encouraging Americans to invest in Chinese equities that you're aware of? Because I'm not.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, in general, I think our view has been that both inward and outward investment are economically beneficial. It there's certainly
Speaker 0: I wanna move on to another issue, but
Speaker 1: it can be case.
Speaker 0: The building of the Chinese economy is not thought by most members of congress to be a good use of of federal funds.
reSee.it AI Summary
I shared a post about a software engineer collaborating with Elon Musk on DOGE to tackle excessive spending. It’s incredibly impressive. Then, I reflected on the frustration of wanting our brightest minds to improve government, only to see resistance when they actually try.
@anothercohen - Alex Cohen
This is one of the software engineers working with Elon Musk on DOGE to reduce our country's excessive spending problem. Unfathomably based https://t.co/F7UjAWoBUy
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I've always been interested in history, especially the Roman Empire. Recently, I learned about burnt scrolls from Pompeii that no one could read. A competition was launched using CT scans to find writing in these scrolls, and I was eager to participate. I’ve been working on this project during my free time, using my laptop and some extra computers. After many hours of searching, I received a message about a new piece of the scroll. When I analyzed it, I discovered three Greek letters, marking the first time we detected writing. The word found was "prophoros," meaning purple, which was exciting because it has meaning. This project, aided by modern AI, is allowing us to read entire paragraphs from the scrolls, and the attention it has received has been overwhelming yet rewarding. The support from the University of Nebraska has been crucial in encouraging bold thinking in my work.
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Speaker 0: So I've always been interested in history. Growing up, I learned Latin. I was never that good at it, but I was always kind of into that sort of stuff. Read a lot about the Roman Empire and things. And one day, I was just listening to a podcast back in March.
It was with Nat Friedman. He just kind of got on the podcast, explained, like, there are these burnt up scrolls that were buried in the Pompeii eruption. No one knows how to read them, but some professors have created CT scans of these scrolls, and they uploaded the data on the Internet as a competition to see who could find writing inside of these scrolls. And when I heard that, I was just immediately, like, oh my goodness. This is such a cool project.
I have to work on this. I just went home from work that day at the end of the day, and I've been working on it evenings and weekends ever since. I run most of the things from my laptop. It's just a normal MacBook. Don't worry.
But then I've just got, like, 5 surplus computers in here. This is what I do most of my work from. The Wake School and just the University of Nebraska as a whole has provided a great educational background where I can then, you know, take these skills that I've learned and apply them to problems like this. I just spend hours upon hours staring at flattened pieces of the scroll like this, trying to find these patterns which are, part of the writing. At the start of the challenge, we had not been able to find any writing at all within these scrolls.
There are 100 of these scrolls that are from the mansion. We've scanned a couple of them, and no one had been able to find any writing in them using these methods. Late one Saturday night, I was sitting at a party at a friend's house in Omaha, and I get a text from another person on the challenge team, and he says, hey, I've just uploaded this new kind of piece of the of the scroll. You should take a look at it. I remotely accessed my computer, I type into it like, please run the algorithm on this new piece of scroll.
And then I just kind of start it. I pull out my phone again, just nonchalantly like, hey, I wonder how that went. And there are 3 Greek letters on the screen. The letters I'd never seen before. It was, really cool because it's like, oh my goodness, like we actually detected new writing in the scrolls using AI.
That was the moment I realized like this is actually gonna work. Like we were probably going to read the scrolls. And I completely freaked out. My friends were there and I was cheering, jumping up and down. You know, screaming, crying, all the stuff.
I, you know, took a picture of the results and I sent them to my mom. She called me and she's like, hey, these look great, you know. It was a really special moment. Yeah. So this is the the word that I actually found.
It's right here. It's the word prophoros, which translates to purple. It's the first word we found in the scrolls. It was reviewed by a committee of kind of Greek scholars, but it's the word purple. And I'm glad it's not the word in or the or and that we found first.
We actually found, a word that has meaning. This would not be possible without modern AI and modern scanning text techniques. People wanted to read these books for 100 of years, and this seems like the only way that's where it's really possible to do that. Now we're reading entire paragraphs from the scrolls, and hopefully, we'll be able to read the entire book and read the hundreds of other books that were buried in this condition as well. When we found this first word, you know, we went public with it.
And I think everyone has been very pleasantly surprised by the amount of attention it's gotten. As a college student, it's definitely been overwhelming in the best way possible. But it's been really cool to get to kind of, you know, talk about my findings and, you know, share what I wanna do in the future with so many people. So it's been overwhelming in the best possible way. The University of Nebraska does a really good job of encouraging their students to think boldly, and I think that's played a pivotal role in my, work on this project.
@anothercohen - Alex Cohen
"Why don't we have our smartest and most ambitious people working to fix our government??" >Smart and ambitious people sign up to fix our government "No! Not like that!!!"
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
The corrupt politicians “protesting” outside the USAID building are the ones getting money from USAID. That’s why they’re there – they want your stolen tax dollars!
@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™
Scott Bessent just laid every media rumor to rest over DOGE in the Treasury. Come to find out two of the DOGE members are Treasury employees. https://t.co/FikrzG2bgt
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I'm here with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. There's concern about the DOGE team's access to payment systems. However, these two treasury employees only have read-only access and cannot make changes; they can only suggest improvements. The ability to change the system lies with the Federal Reserve, not the Treasury. Regarding IRS access, there are currently no engagements with the DOGE team, and any requests for access would be considered when they arise. The focus is on improving IRS operations, particularly concerning collections, privacy, and customer service, especially during the ongoing tax filing season.
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Speaker 0: I'm here with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington. Mister Secretary, thank you for joining me.
Speaker 1: Philip, good to see you.
Speaker 0: Mister Secretary, we are inside the Cash Room at the Treasury Department. It is almost impossible to overstate how important the work that is done in this building is to The US financial system. Yet right now, there is widespread concern about the Doge team's access to sensitive payment systems. Are you worried at all that that access and that tinkering, of the payment systems could affect the treasuries market or cause any disruption?
Speaker 1: Good. Well, Solea, thank you for asking me about that because there's a lot of misinformation out there. First of all, when you say the DOGE team, these are treasury employees. There are two treasury employees. One of whom I personally interviewed in his final round.
There is no tinkering with the system. They are on read only. They are looking. They can make no changes. It is an operational program to suggest improvement.
So we make 1,300,000,000.0 payments a year. And this is two employees who are working with a group of long standing employees.
Speaker 0: The letter that the Treasury Department sent sent earlier this week talked about how the team currently does not have, access to change the system. Have they, at any point this year, had the ability to make changes?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. This is no different than you would have the at a private company. And by the way, the ability to change the system sits over at the Federal Reserve. So it doesn't even lie in this building. So they could make suggestions on how to change the system, but we don't even run the system.
Speaker 0: And if they ask for, if they request the ability to change the system, would you grant that?
Speaker 1: No. Again, they have no ability to change the system. I have no ability to grant that change that they can make suggestions, then it would go to the Federal Reserve. And just like any large ERP system, there would be test, there would be this, there would be that. And then the Fed will determine whether these changes are robust or not.
Speaker 0: As the secretary of treasury, you also oversee the IRS. Do you know what kind of access the team has to IRS data or individual taxpayer data?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you asked that too because look. The the IRS, the privacy issue is one of the biggest issues. And under over the past four years, we've seen a lot of leaks out of there. The IRS systems are quite poor. When I started in college in 1980, I learned the program in COBOL.
I think there are 12 different systems at the IRS that still run on COBOL. But as of now, there there is no engagement at the IRS.
Speaker 0: And if they request that access, would you sign off on that request?
Speaker 1: They haven't. So we'll take that when it comes to it. I I think there is a lot to do there, but the the president was elected with a big agenda. And to the extent that getting the IRS in better shape, is part of that. Sure.
Because look with the IRS, what am I concerned about? I am concerned about collections. I'm concerned about privacy. And I'm concerned that the system is robust.
Speaker 0: But do you think
Speaker 1: And customer service.
Speaker 0: But do you think that if they ask for access, that is something you would consider signing off on?
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things I'd consider. But look, we're in the middle of the tax filing season right now. We even you know, with the government buyouts, that are being that expire at midnight tonight, we have been mandated that the IRS, customer facing employees, that they're not eligible for that until May 15. So I don't imagine anything's gonna go on at the IRS until then or beyond.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
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reSee.it AI Summary
I see my Democratic colleagues upset about Elon Musk and DOGE, but they’re missing the bigger picture. Musk has uncovered significant issues, like the massive spending at USAID, which amounts to hundreds of millions, possibly billions, that they should be addressing instead.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
Sen. John Kennedy: Democrats Critical of DOGE Are Not Talking About What Elon Musk Is ‘Finding’ "A lot of my Democratic colleagues and members of the tofu crowd are very upset and screaming like Musk stole their dog. But they are not talking about what Mr. Musk is finding. Just at the USAID, he found hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars of spending p*rn."
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Senator John Kennedy expressed his appreciation for the current president's willingness to engage with the press, contrasting it with the previous administration. He emphasized the importance of reviewing government spending, highlighting concerns over waste in Medicaid. Kennedy noted that while Medicaid spending is around a trillion dollars annually, many able-bodied individuals are on the program. He proposed a bill requiring those aged 18 to 55, who are not disabled and have no minor children, to work at least 20 hours a week, which could save about $100 billion over ten years. He argued that work is not only financially beneficial but also morally important, as these programs should help individuals transition back to self-sufficiency.
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Speaker 0: With that, we bring in Louisiana Republican senator John Kennedy. Senator, always good to have you with us. What was your reaction as you watch this sort of longer than usual freewheeling, press conference with these two foreign leaders?
Speaker 1: Well, not number one. I find it refreshing after four years, where our president wouldn't wouldn't talk to anyone. Number two, I was paying especially close attention to what the president had to say about reviewing spending. I think it would be fair to say that president Trump has dug in like a tick. He's gonna continue.
He ran on this issue. He said if if you elect me president, I'm gonna review the spending. Now I don't know how you review the spending without reviewing the spending. No no no fair minded person can doubt that the president of The United States has the authority to review the spending in the Executive Branch. He's, he's delegated that authority to Elon Musk.
A lot of my Democratic colleagues and most of the members of the tofu crowd are very upset. They're screaming like Musk stole their dog or something. But one thing they're not talking about is, is what Mr. Musk is finding. I mean, just at the USAID, he found hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars worth of of spending porn.
Speaker 0: Senator, let me ask you something. That If I may, you wrote a piece about Medicaid saying that there is a ton of waste in Medicaid. And you heard president Trump just moments ago. He said we're not gonna touch Social Security, but he said that there are a lot of, bad people who shouldn't be on the list, something to that effect when it comes to Medicaid. What did you find and write about this week with regard to
Speaker 1: that? The American people are the most generous people in the world. If you're If you're hungry, we'll feed you. If you're homeless, we'll house you. If you're too poor to be sick, we'll pay for your doctor.
But all of it costs money. We're spending about a trillion dollars a year on Medicaid. President Biden increased it by about 40%. We estimate that there are between ten and thirty million people on Medicaid who are perfectly able to work. I've got a bill that says if you're between 18 and 55, five, you're not disabled, you don't have any minor kids at home, so we're not talking about a mother with a sick child in her arms.
You you've gotta work twenty hours a week. That'll save us, according to the CBO, about a hundred billion dollars over ten years.
Speaker 0: That yeah. Right there.
Speaker 1: It's not just about the money. It's not just about the money. There's a moral principle. If you can work, you should work. These programs were not meant to be parking lots.
They were meant to be bridges. And for some people, not everybody on Medicaid, but for some people, the best way to to get back on your feet is to get off your ass.
Speaker 0: Well, well put. And, the the piece that you were was very interesting, and the idea is that if you are able-bodied and you're accepting Medicaid, you should be working as well, gainfully employed. Yep. And, it's an idea that I think would be common sense to a lot of people. You also pointed out the psychological benefits of of going to work and having a job and that that is what pulls people out of situations where they need this kind of aid.
Interesting piece and senator, thank you very much. It's always good to have you with us. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark.
reSee.it AI Summary
I’ve directed Elon Musk’s DOGE to investigate the Departments of Education and Defense. He has a capable team that’s uncovering significant fraud, abuse, and waste. They'll start with education and then move to the military and other areas as needed.
@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: President Trump has directed Elon Musk’s DOGE to investigate the Departments of Education and Defense. "He’s got a very capable group of people. They know what they’re doing. I’ve instructed him to go into education, go into the military, and go into other things as we go along. And they’re finding massive amounts of fraud, abuse, waste... He will be looking at education pretty quickly, and he will be looking at the military, too."
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Mister President, what do you think about the Democrats' criticism of the staff reductions by Elon Musk and Doge, claiming it's an unlawful power grab? Have you restricted Musk in any way?
We haven't discussed much. He has a capable team that knows what they're doing. They ask questions and can quickly identify issues. I've directed him to explore areas like education and military, where they're uncovering significant fraud and waste. I identify targets for investigation, and while there may be areas we won't touch, I believe everything is worth examining. As a government, we need to be transparent, and I'm willing to take action if necessary.
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Speaker 0: Mister president, I wonder what you make of the criticism from Democrats that these staff reductions, the cuts that Elon Musk and Doge are doing are an unlawful power grab. Is there anything you've told Elon Musk he cannot touch?
Speaker 1: Well, we haven't discussed that much. I'll tell him to go here, go there. He does it. He's got a very capable group of people. Very, very, very, very capable.
They know what they're doing. They'll ask questions, and they'll see immediately as somebody gets tongue tied that they're either crooked or don't know what they're doing. We have very smart people going in. So, I've instructed him go into education, go into military, go into other things as we go along, and they're finding massive amounts of fraud, abuse, waste, all of these things. So, but I I will pick out a target, and I say go in.
There could be areas that we won't, but I I I think everything's fertile. You know, we're a government. We have to be open. And as an open government, I don't know. I guess you could say maybe some high intelligence or something, and I'll do that myself if I have to.
But, generally
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
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@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
Say it louder 🔊🔊🔊 “If you find yourself angry that an unelected billionaire is getting paid $0 to audit unelected bureaucrats who spend billions of your tax dollars, you might just be a moron.” Elon Musk and DOGE are saving America from bankruptcy. They’re stopping the fraud https://t.co/AmXkjmrioX
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Feeling angry about an unpaid billionaire auditing unelected officials who spend billions of taxpayer money? You might be considered foolish.
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Speaker 0: If you find yourself angry that an unelected billionaire is getting paid $0 to audit unelected bureaucrats who spend billions of your tax dollars, you might just be a moron.
@Freedom_Toons - FreedomToons
Elon and DOGE decimating USAID🤣 https://t.co/4qx1b5CPd5
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Okay, team, we need to address some serious budget overspending. I'm talking millions on bizarre projects like body positivity initiatives for captive Haitians, glitter bombs for Saudi Imams, and chocolate fondue for Ukrainian Hebrews.
And it doesn't stop there: McFlurries for Pakistani furries? Kool-Aid fountains for North Korean accountants? Abortion on demand for Japanese pandas?
Some of these programs are getting cut, including those Iraqi slumber parties and destigmatizing marijuana in Uganda. Sausage male dancers for Australians with COVID, gender-fluid Iraq zodiac lessons, high-speed trains for Ukrainian hermaphrodites, and sex changes for polar bears. Even Saudi Arabian easy bake ovens are in question.
And lastly, we're cutting free handgun ammunition for all USAID positions.
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Speaker 0: Okay, people. We've discovered some incredible abuses of the budget. I mean, really, where are you getting off with these insane expenditures? $10,000,000 spent on body positivity for Haitians in captivity, 8,000,000 on glitter bombs for Saudi Arabian Imams, and $9,000,000 on chocolate fondue for East Ukrainian Hebrews.
Speaker 1: They have just as much a right to chocolate fondue as anyone, you Nazi.
Speaker 0: Well, I'm sorry, but it it has to be cut
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: If you cut 10,000,000
Speaker 4: from the CFEUH budget, what's next? Cutting our $3,000,000 budget
Speaker 5: to give free McFlurries to Pakistani furries?
Speaker 0: Well, now that you bring it up
Speaker 6: Oh, come on.
Speaker 0: Oh, wow. Wow. That's, yeah. No. We're definitely cutting that.
Speaker 1: This is insanity. You're letting our budget get cut by literal babies.
Speaker 0: Because even an infant can balance these books better than you. I mean, come on, people. Come on. 50,000,000 taxpayer dollars for Kool Aid water fountains for North Korean accountants, abortion on demand for pandas in Japan, a thousand packs of Smarties for Iraqi slumber parties.
Speaker 4: If you touch any of the Iraqi slumber party budgets, I will shoot you myself.
Speaker 0: I'm sorry, but it has it has to go.
Speaker 2: This is clearly a slippery slope
Speaker 7: to canceling our program to destigmatize marijuana for Latinx folks in Uganda.
Speaker 0: Your budget for that is 9,000,000. And frankly, I think you can do it for 8.
Speaker 1: You genocidal freak.
Speaker 0: We also definitely need to cause
Speaker 8: Please not. Sausage male
Speaker 6: dancers for Australians with COVID cancer.
Speaker 0: Yes. Well, while we're at a squirt, we're going to trim. Teaching zodiac for a more genderfluid Iraq, a high speed train for hermaphrodites in Ukraine, welfare benefits for aboriginal feminists, and the 12,000,000 you are spending on sex changes for polar bears. This this just says sex changes for polar bears. It it doesn't even rhyme.
Speaker 9: It didn't mean to rhyme. It was important that I felt
Speaker 10: it didn't mean to rhyme.
Speaker 11: The only program left in my department is 12,000,000 to buy IUDs
Speaker 4: for corgis and police.
Speaker 0: Yeah. We're going to reduce that. Oh, Edward, one thing. I really think we need to be spending at most half as much as we currently are on easy bake ovens for Saudi Arabian covens.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna live. I don't wanna live. I don't wanna live.
Speaker 11: Don't do it. You have so much to live for. Like what?
Speaker 0: If it's promoting alternative fuels to Afghani polycules, I I have bad news for you. Oh, and lastly, we cut all funding for free handgun ammunition for all USAID positions. Testing one, two, three. Okay. Hollow ad take one.
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@BehizyTweets - George
BREAKING: President Trump & Elon Musk will now look into federal officials who end up being worth MILLIONS despite lower salaries. Maybe we can start with all the members of Congress who somehow instantly become multi-millionaires on 200k a year. https://t.co/5yNA4Su220
Video Transcript AI Summary
We've uncovered some unusual financial discrepancies. Several individuals in bureaucratic positions with modest salaries have amassed tens of millions of dollars in net worth. One example involves a woman who walked away with approximately $30,000,000. We're curious about the source of this wealth. Perhaps they are skilled investors, but it seems more likely that they are enriching themselves at the expense of taxpayers. We are investigating to determine how this occurred.
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Speaker 0: And also, could you mention some of the things that your team has found, some of the crazy numbers including the woman that walked away with about 30,000,000, etcetera?
Speaker 1: Well, we we we we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there there are quite a few people in in in the bureaucracy who who have a, ostensibly, a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions dollars in net worth, while they are in that position, which is, you know, what what happened to USAID. We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing. They in which case, we should take their investment advice, perhaps. But, just there seems to be mysteriously they they get wealthy.
We don't know why. Where does it come from? And, I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at detached fair expense. That's that's the that's the honest truth of it. So, you know, we we're looking at, say, well, we we we just
@TheChiefNerd - Chief Nerd
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reSee.it AI Summary
I asked Elizabeth Warren about her $12M net worth on a $200K salary, which caught Elon Musk's attention. Today, he announced in the Oval Office that DOGE will investigate public officials with high net worths and low pay. Finally, our government is listening to us! We are the media now.
@nicksortor - Nick Sortor
🚨 YESTERDAY: I asked Elizabeth Warren HOW she achieved a $12M net worth on a $200K salary, prompting a reply from Elon inquiring as well TODAY: @ElonMusk announces in the Oval Office DOGE will be investigating public officials with high net worths and low pay Our government FINALLY listens to US! 🇺🇸 WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW.
Video Transcript AI Summary
Senator Warren, I'm curious about your financial background. How did you manage to accumulate a $12 million net worth while earning a $200,000 salary in Congress? Could you explain how you achieved that? Excuse me, I'm simply asking a question and would appreciate it if you didn't obstruct my camera. We are on a public sidewalk.
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Speaker 0: Senator Warren, this is my answer question. How did you get a $12,000,000 net worth on a $200,000 salary in congress? Thank you. How did you do that? Excuse me.
How did you do that? You didn't keep trying to block my camera. We're on public sidewalk. So
Video Transcript AI Summary
It's strange to see bureaucrats with modest salaries somehow accumulate tens of millions in net worth during their service. Take USAID, for example. We wonder how they became so wealthy while in their positions. Maybe they're just brilliant investors, and we should seek their advice! But, in reality, it seems they are getting rich at the expense of taxpayers. We're looking into this.
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Speaker 0: And, also, could you mention some of the things that your team has found, some of the crazy numbers including the woman that walked away with about 30,000,000,
Speaker 1: etcetera? Well, we we we are we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there there are quite a few people in in in the bureaucracy who who have a ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth, while they are in that position, which is, you know, what what happened to USAID. We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing. They, in which case, we should take their investment advice perhaps.
But, just there seems to be mysteriously they they get wealthy. We don't know why. Where did it come from? And, I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at the taxpayer expense. That's that's the that's the honest truth of it.
So, you know, we're looking at, say, well, we we we would just
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
WOAH 🚨 James O'Keefe just got a Policy Advisor at the US Treasury to admit on camera that Treasury employees ARE DEFYING Elon Musk’s DOGE He even says DOGE and Elon Musk are, and I quote, “Risks to National Security”… WOW (He means risks to their fraud) https://t.co/ktTanMNKLY
Video Transcript AI Summary
As a policy advisor for the Treasury, I work on national security risks, monitoring investments into the US. Recently, Doge gained access to the Treasury to cut waste. I think we're an easy target, and there are people here who don't do much.
My colleagues and I are worried about Doge and potential firings. What Elon is doing feels like government-sanctioned harassment. People here think it's not going to fire the right people, it's going to fire the wrong people. Many of us in my office are worried about being fired, especially the new hires. Some people care more about money than the country.
I also feel that Doge shouldn't have access to the Treasury due to national security risks. No one knows what they want to do with the system. Giving people access to information creates vulnerabilities.
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Speaker 0: Can I come? There are people that I know who've been working for the government for, like, so many years, and they've taken too much. I hate to say it. I know it's been
Speaker 1: Meet Nathaniel Johnson, a policy adviser for the United States Department of the Treasury.
Speaker 0: Basically, no one's quitting. Everyone's essentially done it. They're at least said, like, you're gonna have an apartment.
Speaker 1: The policy adviser for the Treasury declares that what Elon is doing quote,
Speaker 0: government sanctioned harassment. Every single federal employee got emailed last Tuesday, Monday, or Tuesday, the policeman said, we're offering you the option to retire. No one has ever done that before. Two, no one thinks it's a baby. It's not gonna do anything, and
Speaker 2: it's gonna fire the rocket.
Speaker 0: It's like like a government sanctioned capacity.
Speaker 1: Nate Johnson says that Doge should not have access to the Treasury Department. He says due to, quote, risks to national security.
Speaker 0: It's weird because it's like no one knows what they want to do with the system. Mhmm. This is like what I deal with is like vulnerabilities and risk and stuff like that. That person who has access, you probably shouldn't have access. They could take that information, give it to someone that they should.
They could ask them to you. Or they could give it to you for your country. You can be American and you can still give that information away.
Speaker 1: I also spoke directly to Nate Johnson. You say Elon is doing this because he, quote, really cares about money more than they do the country. Do you do you think Elon Musk cares more about money than the country? I don't believe I ever said that.
Speaker 0: I think that there is a class of people in this country who care more about money than they do. I'm just curious. Okay. Sure. And what you really care about is money.
So I'm clear about the classes more even.
Speaker 1: Money. Why not speak now publicly? Why not talk to a reporter about the things that you told a stranger?
Speaker 0: Again, I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: that you do not publish one name. I'm not giving permission. Listen. I'm an investigative reporter. I don't get permission from people.
That's not what I do. I'm, again, gonna have to ask if
Speaker 0: you please don't name me.
Speaker 1: You're asking me to bury a story.
Speaker 0: I'm declining to speak to you any further.
Speaker 1: I am gonna do this story with or without your permission. Meet Nathaniel Johnson, a policy adviser for the United States Department of the Treasury. Nathaniel specializes in foreign policy at the Treasury on the monitoring and enforcement team. Johnson reviews foreign policy investments into United States for national security purposes and spoke more in-depth about his role to our undercover journalist.
Speaker 0: I work for the treasury. I work on a committee that reviews investment into The United States for countries for, like, national security risks. So the one that you top with your dog is, like, the TikTok. So my agency initially was quite, like, reviewing TikTok. This is or it was a national security risk, and it was such a complicated case then.
And, Congress decided that they could act fast for somebody. This is it. But that was, like, a very active we do, like, tons of stuff. So I work on the monitoring and enforcement team. And so my job is, like, sort of once again, we've identified, like, a problem or something like that, and it's not too big of a problem.
Make you sign an agreement to do certain things that will solve the issue. And then my team basically just, like, watches to make sure that they're actually doing just a Soft drop. Team. And it's a cool job because it's like, I mostly work here, but I get to travel a lot. That's cool.
Site visits, like, usually, I keep usually, like, once a month.
Speaker 1: Recently, the Department of Government Efficiency, Doge, has gained access to the Treasury Department to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. Nate Johnson, the official from the US Treasury, admits that they are a, quote, easy target there at Treasury, and he knows people in the Treasury, quote, that don't do much.
Speaker 0: We should be getting rid of people to go do their jobs, and I I hate to say it. I know a few people who can come. There are people that I know who've been working for the government for, like, thirty years, and they don't do much. It's not gonna do anything, and
Speaker 2: it's gonna fire the wrong people.
Speaker 0: I think they target us because it's an easy target.
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He also says that most of his colleagues believe the offers to his colleagues, giving them the option to retire. Well, Nate Johnson says that, quote, nobody thinks that's legal inside the treasury.
Speaker 0: Oh, yep. Which is interesting for two reasons. One, no one has ever done that before. Two, no one thinks it's leaving. I would be very surprised if I'm not that they were also attending.
It's like a whole bunch of, like, things gonna have to fire. Oh. Like, you're gonna have to know what the reason the fire is.
Speaker 1: The policy adviser for the treasury declares that what Elon is doing is, quote, government sanctioned harassment, unquote, and says the only reason Elon Musk created Doge is because Elon wants more money.
Speaker 0: It's not gonna do anything, and
Speaker 2: it's gonna fire the wrong people
Speaker 0: because they're working on the mechanism. It's it's literally it's like It's it's literally it's like, like, a government sanctioned harassment. Everyone is collaborating. Everyone's gonna get someone out, and it's It's not. Not great for anyone.
So, like, everyone in my office who's when only started working last year is worried that they're gonna get fired on time. And what we have been saying is, like, you're gonna be half. Like, our work is important. Congress thinks our work is important. Well, the White House thinks our work is important.
The American speaker is important. I think that there is a class of people in this country who care more about money than they do. Constellation, you know, because he's showing that what he really cares about is money. Absolutely. There are open classes, but even more money.
Money. You can still care more about yourself than about the country.
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Speaker 0: And it's weird because it's like no one knows what they want to do with the system. Why does anyone need the tax do it of of, like, some random person that makes a certain part of my work group? This is, like, what I deal with is, like, vulnerabilities, risk, and stuff like that. It's like when you give people access to things like that, and it's creates a risk that, like, that person who has access, you probably go shoot them access and take that information You can be American and you can still give that information away.
Speaker 1: Now we are talking to many people inside the federal government to get them to go public on the record despite their fears of retaliation, hoping that the heads of these agencies will have their back. More on that soon. And if you're inside the government, you know who to call. Contact us securely on our signal number or send us a DM to any of our accounts. Reporting from West Palm Beach, Florida at the new headquarters of O'Keefe Media Group and Citizen Journalism Foundation.
This is James O'Keefe.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
You’ll NEVER be able to make this make sense “Democrats want to audit you for a $600 Venmo payment, but when Elon Musk audits the trillion dollar government - they're ready to storm the castle. The government's been robbing us blind.” - Jesse Waters DOGE is NOT controversial https://t.co/TSUQyChyXx
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We're cutting the deep state. Over 40,000 federal bureaucrats have taken buyouts, saving Americans millions. Elon and his team are streamlining agencies, Secretary of State Rubio fired 90% of USAID administrators, and the media is calling it the Trumppocalypse.
Federal workers are worried about payback, but what about the rest of us who've had to deal with DEI and cancel culture? CNN is crying for feds who don't want to return to the office, but they didn't weep for Keystone Pipeline workers.
Democrats are shocked we're putting the government on a diet, but Trump and Musk campaigned on it and won. Elon says the fraudsters are complaining the loudest. We're catching them, and Elon Musk is helping.
We're spending millions on things like tourism in Egypt, Iraqi Sesame Street, and trans surgeries in Guatemala. Biden paid billions to unnamed foreign sources. This is a government theft ring, and we're putting an end to it.
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Speaker 0: The Doge father's on the loose, and no federal job is safe. Their plan for the deep state gut it all. Over 40,000 federal bureaucrats have already taken buyouts, and we're only in week three.
Speaker 1: We expect that number to increase, and that that alone, just the 40,000, again, we expect it to increase. It's going to save the American people tens of millions of dollars, and we encourage federal workers in this city to accept the very generous offer. If they don't wanna show up to the office, if they wanna rip the American people off, then, they're welcome to take this buyout, and we'll find highly competent individuals who want to fill these roles.
Speaker 0: Elon and his nerd army have been combing through agencies blasting away bloat. 20 year old dozers are clashing with lazy old timers who don't know how to use a computer and are calling them idiots. And breaking news, secretary of state Marco Rubio has just fired 90% of the administrators at USAID. They took a 10,000 man agency and streamlined it to 300 employees. The media is calling it the Trumppocalypse.
CNN cast off, Oliver Darcy, says the American experiment is convulsing before our eyes, and he's flabbergasted that the media hasn't gone into round the clock special coverage. Quote, media executives need not fret about being the boy who cried wolf. The wolf is now in the barn and mauling the livestock. The Democrats in the media have never seen a president execute a mandate with speed and precision. The country voted for change, and we're watching representative government in the twenty first century.
The feds, they call that war.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to work in this type of condition where we're gonna be in a psychological warfare for how long?
Speaker 3: Other federal workers not revealing their names because of concern over retribution described to NBC News fear and panic, an Orwellian nightmare.
Speaker 0: Federal workers are worried about payback and psychological warfare. How do you think the whole country's felt for the last twenty years? Having to tiptoe around DEI, hauled into HR for jokes, canceled for an opinion, watching Black Lives Matter light us on fire. A guy wearing a dress raped a girl in the girl's bathroom, and the girl's dad got arrested for raising his voice. A DEI bureaucrat at the Department of Justice making 6 figures who's gonna get a buyout with an eight month severage deal, they're not a victim.
CNN's putting spot shadows on feds like their lives are in danger.
Speaker 4: What is the general feeling across government amongst your fellow federal workers right now?
Speaker 5: Grief. They're angry, many that are confused, but all kind of grieving in their own way.
Speaker 4: How does it feel to be targeted for the work that you're so passionate about? It's okay. You could take your time.
Speaker 5: It actually makes me proud of the people that I've worked with and the things that we've done.
Speaker 0: CNN's spot chatting a woman who's worked from home, and now she's crying because she doesn't wanna go back to the office? This is insane. CNN just laid off hundreds of employees to cut costs because their books aren't balanced because no one's watching them. No one's interviewing fired CNN staff, not even Don Lemon. Getting fired isn't a war crime.
I've been fired four times, and thank God because it turned out alright. Since when has CNN cared about people losing their jobs? They didn't weep when Biden waxed the Keystone Pipeline Workers. CNN's been trying to get everybody fired at Fox for years. If CNN doesn't like what you say, they call your boss, they call your advertisers, They try to bankrupt you and boycott you.
Random Americans who crack jokes on Facebook. CNN was putting them on blast, trying to get them canceled. CNN cheered on Biden for firing army officers who didn't get vaxxed. Guys who are willing to die for this country. CNN said, good.
Get them out of here. CNN's boss can lay off people. Why can't Trump? Bill Clinton fired almost 400,000 federal workers. That wasn't a constitutional crisis.
The government had to slim down. Bill and Newt cut the fat, balanced the budget, and Democrats are acting like we're witnessing a genocide.
Speaker 6: Let me remind you who set the house on fire. It was y'all. It feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty and hand it over to someone who is unelected.
Speaker 0: Fire Elon Musk. Elon Musk took control of our country's financial nuclear codes.
Speaker 7: House Republicans have allowed billionaire Elon Musk and his gang of thieves to enter the US Treasury Department, fire the people entrusted with secret private information about Americans, and give them that access.
Speaker 0: Elon Musk is destroying our federal government. He feels he bought himself a president.
Speaker 8: Now we've got Donald Trump and his co president, Elon Musk, and they're just running a wrecking ball through it.
Speaker 0: Democrats wanna audit you for a $600 Venmo payment. But when Elon audits the trillion dollar government, they're ready to storm the castle. Why are Democrats shocked? We're putting the government on a diet. Trump and Musk campaigned on it and won on it.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be very open and transparent and be very clear about this is what we're doing. Here are the issues. The this is this is the the math for what what's being spent and and what, you know, and and we're we're gonna make it we're gonna make the spending lower. And if if somebody's got a better idea for how to make the spending lower, we're tell us. But but if we don't, we're gonna bankrupt the country.
Speaker 9: I will create a government efficiency commission task with conducting totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months. This will save trillions of dollars, trillions.
Speaker 0: Democrats aren't surprised this is Trump's agenda. They're surprised he's able to execute it because after years of incompetence, no one thought anyone was capable of doing anything in Washington. Elon says there's a way to know when you're over the target.
Speaker 5: One of the things I remember from the PayPal days was that, you know, who complains the loudest, is the fraudsters. Okay? So, like, the so so when when somebody was trying to commit fraud or PayPal, where we would see the most amount of righteous indignation, like, it would be like immediate over the top righteous indignation was from the fraudsters, not from honest people. Because honest people are like, oh, I think there's something wrong with my account. I guess I wonder what's wrong.
Let me inquire. And and but the fraudsters will come at you immediately. The the this is it's like a it's like a tell you that that someone's actually doing fraud because the level of of sort of foe outrage is way over the top.
Speaker 0: Elon doesn't care about bad press. He's trying to save the republic. It's good cop, bad cop. Trump's the good cop. He's the bad cop.
Speaker 9: We're catching him left and right. We're catching him. We're catching him to a point where they don't know what the heck is going on. They can't believe they're getting caught. And I have great respect for the people that are doing it.
Elon Musk is helping us on it, and he's pretty good. He's pretty good.
Speaker 0: The government's been robbing us blind. We've been writing checks, 6,000,000 for tourism in Egypt. Like, Egypt needs help with that. They have the pyramids. We should be spending money on cleaning up California so that tourists can vacation in California.
Two million to help the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society. We're bribing the BBC to cover Libya better? Why? A million for a gay group in Armenia. There it is.
We paid 20,000,000 for Iraqi Sesame Street. You paid for Bert and Ernie in Baghdad. Weren't we just bombing these people? Now we're paying for their Muppet shows? We're sick.
There is something sick with us. You also paid for an Irish DEI musical.
Speaker 10: On behalf of ambassador Cronin, it is an honor to welcome all of her guests to Deerfield tonight for this important event. Increasing access to opportunity and equity is a cornerstone of the Biden administration, and we're so proud to play a small part in that here.
Speaker 0: This is a government theft ring. We spent $2,000,000 for trans surgeries in Guatemala. I'm gonna go out on a limb. One Guatemalan dude got breast implants, and we probably kicked back the rest of the cash to a crooked Guatemalan politician and the corrupt liberal CEO of the group they laundered the money through. Because all this money we're spending, we could have turned the whole world trans.
We could have made every man a woman and every woman a man with this kind of money. Do you really think it costs 20,000,000 to produce an episode of Sesame Street? You could hire Tom Cruise to play Oscar the Grouch for that money. Check this. Biden paid nearly $5,000,000,000 to unnamed foreign sources.
Whoever's getting our money is so shady, our government can't even put it in writing. They just call it aid. I bet a lot of this money is to bribe foreign officials to win bids for American companies or to bribe foreign politicians just to have in our pockets or just to subsidize far left foundations. Most of the people getting money from these grants aren't in the country. They pump it into overseas organizations, and then we never see them.
Any liberal with an international women's studies degree can launch a five zero one c three, apply for a government grant, and spin it off into a left wing piggy bank. USAID paid $235,000,000 to the National Democratic Institute. K. Well, that sounds benign. No.
Millions of that money went to executive compensation, meaning salaries for all the liberals with no skills. I bet most of that money didn't go to supporting democracy. It went to supporting liberal lifestyles. Democrats have been sucking off the teat of government for decades, and Trump caught them. As one Trump insider says, you bring USAID to heal and you end the Democrat gravy train.
USAID is just the beginning. You start peeling back at the layers of every agency, and all you find out is pork that winds up in the wrong people's pockets.
Speaker 11: The White Coat Waste Project exposed more than $10,000,000 in taxpayer funds that were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys. The Biden Harris administration spent 2,500,000.0 taxpayer dollars, 2 point 5 million taxpayer dollars to study the fertility of trans gender mice. We spent over a million dollars, to find out if female rats receiving testosterone therapy, were more likely to overdose on a date rape drug.
Speaker 0: One of those multimillion dollar studies was at the University of Michigan. How much do you wanna bet? A Democrat wants to go to a game at Ann Arbor. Front row seats. Anyone from the Biden team wants to land at Ann Arbor.
Here's an office, a campus, an apartment, and a no show job with benefits. Governments fed the pigs so much it turned into a hog. You know what happens to hogs? They get slaughtered. And the American people love a good butcher.
Speaker 12: This political party, the Democratic party have lied to us about everything. What the last several weeks have proven to us all is that this was a part this is a cadre of criminals and losers and spoiled children of affluent parents
Speaker 7: who were more
Speaker 12: concerned about looking good than actually doing good. Now we come to USAID being probably the largest money laundering operation in American history. Congratulations, Dembs. You've outdone you've outdone even Bernie Madoff.
@GenFlynn - General Mike Flynn
WTH is really going on inside our government? We’re being completely ripped off by those supposed to help protect our way of life. @elonmusk @DOGE “DOGE says it found nearly untraceable budget line item responsible for $4.7T in payments.” @realDonaldTrump People must be held accountable. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-says-found-nearly-untraceable-budget-line-item-responsible-4-7t-payments
DOGE says it found nearly untraceable budget line item responsible for $4.7T in payments
DOGE identified a nearly untraceable code linking payments to the U.S. Treasury to a budget line item, accounting for nearly $4.7 trillion in payments.
foxnews.com
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Doesn’t add up
@Sadie_NC - Sadie
I am beginning to understand why they are fighting so hard to stop Elon. Something is very wrong here. https://t.co/mfg1HRRis0
@TheUnitedSpot__ - The United Spot
Trump & Elon’s Wild DOGE, USAID, IRS & Fort Knox Probe: Uncovering the Most Boring Million-Dollar Jobs EVER! https://t.co/T7wVUdr6fc
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So, we're from the Department of Government Efficiency, and we're here because we have no idea what you guys actually do around here.
Where's the gold, where's the money going and how many 50-year-olds are you paying every month? All the funds are allocated, but what exactly are they allocated for? Also, why do 50,000 federal employees owe $1.5 billion in taxes?
After an audit of the IRS, we found you owe $50 million. What about your chief of the flat office navigation team getting paid $20,000,000 a year to find the edge of the office?
I want to see every receipt. If I find out even one cent went to funding secret IRS strip clubs, I'll throw you in the deepest, darkest prison cell in America!
Ultimately, we're going to fire some people, abolish the IRS, and turn IRS workers into ICE workers.
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Speaker 0: Hello, Daniel. What's happening? Oh, hey, Trump. It's actually president Trump. Oh, sorry.
President Trump. Yeah. We have somewhat of a problem here. What's the problem? Well, we can't really figure out what it is you actually do around here.
What? Oh, well. Yeah. I'm gonna need to see what you've gotten done this week. How you doing?
Who the hell are you guys?
Speaker 1: We're from the Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 0: What's that? Go. Alright, Nancy. We asked a hundred morons. What's the first thing Democrats will cry about when USA gets shut down?
Elon's a racist? Good answer, Nancy. Show me Elon's a racist. Alright. I'm gonna ask you one time and one time only.
Where's the gold?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Where's the gold? Let me see here. The gold.
Speaker 0: Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Think, McFly. Think.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Think good and hot. Where's the gold? Well, I mean, it's here, but it's not here.
Speaker 0: So where's the fucking money going?
Speaker 3: Yeah. How many 50 year olds are you paying every month?
Speaker 0: All the funds are allocated. Allocated? Allocated for what? The great wall of IRS? Or or is it your secret slush fund for auditors gone wild parties?
Speaker 3: Remember the time you guys lost $12,000,000,000 in tax refunds?
Speaker 0: That was unfortunate. Okay. What have you been doing here, Daniel? I plead the fifth. Are you aware there's a 50,000 federal employees who owe 1,500,000,000.0 in taxes?
I plead the fifth. Daniel, one of your 87,000 IRS agents done today? I plead the fifth.
Speaker 1: Daniel, after an audit of the IRS, we found you owe $50,000,000. Boom. Can you explain that? That's the
Speaker 0: first thing Democrats will cry about when USA gets shut down. Impeach Donald Trump. Yes, sir. Show me impeach Donald Trump. Oh my gosh.
This is like total sexual harassment. Says here you chief for the flat office navigation team. Oh my gosh. Would you stop trying to date me? What do you do here?
Duh. It's like totally obvious. I lead team expeditions to the edge of the office. Well, $20,000,000 a year to find the edge of the office is way too much. So been doomed.
Oh my god. I think I'm dying. I wanna see every receipt, every penny, every w 2, every fucking $10.99. And I swear on MAGA, if I find out even 1 fucking cent went to fund in your secret IRS strip clubs, I'll throw you in the deepest, darkest prison cell in America with a bottle of baby oil and Diddy. And you'll get a hands on audit.
You'll never forget. We asked a hundred morons. What's the first thing Democrats will cry about when USAID gets shut down? No one voted for Elon? Did he ask No one voted for Elon.
Alright, Adam. We asked a hundred morons. What's the first thing Democrats will cry about when USAID gets shut down? Come on, Adam. You can do it, Adam.
Come on, Adam. Now January 6. Good answer. Show me January 6. You got three seconds to show me something.
Three two Oh, okay. Okay. I got something. Okay. What do you got?
This is just as good
Speaker 2: as gold. What the fuck is this?
Speaker 0: This is an IOU. An IOU? See right here? This is a 47,300,000 ounces of gold bullion. You might wanna hold on to that one.
You've been dodged. But we're just here to find out exactly what it is you do around here. I only do my brother. I swear. We want to know what your job title is.
Oh, I am a senior consultant for Cloudshape interpretation. What the hell is that? I specialize in predicting racist events based on cloud formations. 20,000,000 a year for cloud formations? You bet.
This about me pooping my pants in the office again, or or what what's what's going on here? Says here you're the chief bubble wrap popper. That that that's right, squirrel. So you just pop bubble wrap all day? Well, I mean, it's it's a little more complex than that.
So what is it that you do around here? Well, I mean, I'm the chief bubble wrap popper. Yeah. You said that, but what does a bubble wrap popper do? And why does a bubble wrap popper need a fucking security
Speaker 2: that? Dooge.
Speaker 0: Alright. So what did you come up with today? Well, we're going to fire this guy and send him to prison. Sounds good. What else?
We're going to abolish the IRS. Good. Anything else? Yeah. We're gonna take the 87,000 IRS workers and turn them into ICE workers.
Excellent.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Reducing fraud & waste of your tax dollars by a trillion dollars in 2026 is possible
@simonateba - Simon Ateba
BREAKING: Washington, D.C. protesters call for the 'eviction of DOGE, Elon Musk and his teenagers out of the Office of Personnel Management,' declares DOGE as illegal. https://t.co/N39eFgI4J5
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Good afternoon. We're here today to evict Doge and Elon Musk from the Office of Personnel Management and declare that Doge is done. We're fighting to protect the merit-based civil service and the rights, resources, and protections it provides. DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, is under attack, but it truly stands for civil rights.
This is an illegal operation, dismantling services important to every American family. Elon Musk spent millions to elect Donald Trump, and now Trump is giving Musk control of federal agencies. We need to expose this corrupt bargain and fight back against this betrayal.
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Speaker 0: Testing.
Speaker 1: Who are we? Who are we? Who are we? Are we?
Speaker 0: Sisters and brothers, good morning. Good afternoon, rather. It's 12:00. It's it's a lovely day out here. No excuse not to be outside to march, to rally for our rights.
We've come here today. We've gathered here today to evict Doge
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: And his teenagers out of the office of personnel management.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We've come to declare Doge is done.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Doge is done.
Speaker 0: And we're not leaving. We're not ending this fight until they're completely done.
Speaker 3: Yeah. This
Speaker 0: is where the rights, the resources, and the protections of the merit based civil service take place.
Speaker 2: Right. Right.
Speaker 0: It says that on the books. Yeah. It says merit based.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So
Speaker 0: there's this myth coming from 1600 that there's somehow some discrimination because of so called DEI.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But
Speaker 0: the government and these employees and these jobs are merit based.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: They're not based on race.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 0: If anything Yeah. For decades, there has been discrimination the other way around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Ensuring or not ensuring that people of color and women and veterans and the disabled had a fair shot at one of these good merit based jobs.
Speaker 5: Yes. That's right.
Speaker 1: And this
Speaker 0: is the importance of labor. This is the marriage between labor and civil rights because when we organize, we win. Yeah. When we marry labor and civil rights, we can stand up for all those who have been historically discriminated against in this government.
Speaker 6: Yeah. That's right. That's right.
Speaker 0: DEI is the new term. Yeah. But DEI really is an acronym that says civil rights. So if you attack DEI, you're attacking civil rights and breaking the law
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: So that is why we are here, the American Federation of Government Employees. Who are
Speaker 1: we? ALGE. Who are we?
Speaker 0: We're gonna begin our program. We have some very distinguished speakers here today, including elected officials. I'm glad they're here because they understand the importance of this. These ain't cabinet positions. These ain't folks that shuffle every four years.
Speaker 3: That's
Speaker 0: right. These are regular folk who work every day whose retirements are threatened Yes. By Musk and Doge. Yeah. This ain't x.
This ain't Tesla. This ain't SpaceX. This ain't none of his companies.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 0: This belongs to the people Yeah. And our taxpayer dollars. Yeah. Right. So we are here to protect them.
Let's hear first and foremost from the national vice president district fourteen, Otis Johnson.
Speaker 2: Alright. Alright. Good
Speaker 5: afternoon, brothers and sisters and junior family. We are here today because we refuse to stand by while the heart of our federal workforce, OPM, is under attack.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The plan to dismantle dismantle OPM isn't just reckless. It's an all out assault on the merit based civil service and attempt to strip away protections that ensure fairness, diversity, and integrity in federal hiring. Yeah. Let's be clear. This isn't about efficiency.
No. This is about control. Yeah. Doge and the forces behind this takeover want to politicize the very agency that protects federal workers. Yeah.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 5: They want hiring based on favoritism, not fairness. They want to erase policies that ensure diversity and inclusion, and they want to weaken the very system that makes our government work for the American people every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But let me
Speaker 5: tell you something. AFG isn't going anywhere. No.
Speaker 3: Let me
Speaker 5: try that again. AFGE isn't going anywhere. Yeah. We fought too hard for far too long to let this stand. We are here.
We are strong, and we are ready for this fight. Yeah. The battle has just begun, and we are confident that we will prevail.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Because
Speaker 5: when working people stand together, we will when we raise our voices as one, we win.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We
Speaker 5: are fighting not just for today, but for the future of our of every federal worker and every American who depends on a government that works for them. Yeah. So stay strong.
Speaker 3: Stand strong.
Speaker 5: Stay united.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And let them hear us loud and clear. Yeah. We will not let OPM fall.
Speaker 3: No. We
Speaker 5: will not be silenced.
Speaker 3: No. And
Speaker 5: we will win this
Speaker 0: here now representing the great state of Maryland, which I'm certain many of the folk who work in this building and perhaps some of you live in the DMV. Don't you?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Please welcome senator Chris Van Hollen, if you're
Speaker 3: Good to see you. Alright. Appreciate you, sir.
Speaker 7: Are we gonna stop the war on America's workforce?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You bet we are, and I wanna thank AFGE for being here and being the voices for so many federal employees.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: We're here today to stand with the patriotic federal employees here at OPM and other places around the government. And we're also here to say we will not stand for Elon Musk's illegal operation. Are we gonna stand for that? Hell no. No.
We have to shut down this illegal operation. Yes. And they decided to make OPM their sort of headquarters for this illegal operation. Are we gonna evict Elon Musk and Doge from OPM? Yeah.
You bet we are. Yeah. We're gonna do it in the courts, and I wanna thank a AFG and all the others who are bringing those cases. We're working with them. Yep.
We're gonna do it in congress through every means we have, and I wanna thank the Maryland congressional delegation here. They've been the tip of the spear. You're gonna hear from them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And
Speaker 7: we're gonna do this in communities all over the country.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 7: Because the word is getting out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 7: And that's what we're all about here is to make sure people know the truth about what's happening. You've probably seen some of these town halls
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Right? In other states and congressional districts where you've got a lot of folks, the members of congress, in this case, Republicans, they can't stand the heat. They can't tell the truth, and they can't answer the questions. Yeah. So they're running away.
Yeah. But they're running away from their constituents.
Speaker 3: Yes,
Speaker 7: sir. Because while we have a lot of great federal employees in this region, 80% of federal employees work outside
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 7: Of this area. Right.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 7: And what they're doing is hurting the services the critical services those employees provide to every American. Isn't that what they're doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So here's what we have to do to blow the whistle. You all know this, but we need to get the word out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: This is the most corrupt bargain in American history.
Speaker 3: Yes. It is.
Speaker 7: So Elon Musk spent $280,000,000 to elect Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: And Donald Trump has given Elon Musk the keys to federal agencies.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 7: And they are dismantling services that are important to every American family.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Are we gonna let that happen? No. Hell no.
Speaker 2: Hell no. God.
Speaker 7: And as Otis said, this has nothing to do.
Speaker 3: That's
Speaker 7: right. Nothing to do with efficiency.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 7: Right? You all know this.
Speaker 8: That's
Speaker 7: right. If you cared about efficiency, you wouldn't start by firing the inspector generals.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 7: Right? These are the independent watchdogs who look out for waste, fraud, and abuse. Yeah. In fact, that's what you would do if you were going to open the door to more waste, fraud, and abuse. Right?
Yeah. I you know, we all know that Elon Musk just got another billion billion dollar contract Yeah. Within the next couple weeks. The other reason we know this has nothing to do with government efficiency is they're talking about step two, replacing merit based federal employees with political hacks. That's not about efficiency.
That's about political cronyism. Are we gonna let that happen? Hell no. No. So let me just end with this because the word is getting out that what we are witnessing is the great betrayal.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah. The great betrayal because what Donald Trump promised on day one
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He was gonna reduce prices for groceries, for rent, for housing. That's what he said he'd do on day one, cut prices. What's he doing instead? He's bringing Elon Musk in to do the dirty work, to rig the federal government so it works for people like Elon Musk Yeah. And not everyday Americans.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 7: And in the process, they're trying to make room for tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk at the expense of everybody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And so we need to make clear to the American people what's happening here. Are we gonna do that or will we make sure our voices are heard? Yeah. We are. And are we gonna shut down this operation and bet Elon Musk?
Yeah. We are. Thank you all very much for what you do.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 0: Let's hear it for senator Chris Van Hollen. Alright. We're gonna hear from some other members of congress. Are y'all are y'all gonna go or you gonna skip this thing tonight? If you decide I'm a put you on the spot.
I'm not I'm going. You're not going you're going?
Speaker 2: I'm going.
Speaker 0: Alright. In the meantime, we're we're we're here
Speaker 1: to evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon.
Alright.
Speaker 3: We're gonna
Speaker 0: stay in Maryland representing, Baltimore County, Congressman Johnny Oseski.
Speaker 2: Alright. Alright. Alright. Alright.
Speaker 10: What's up, AFG?
Speaker 2: Hello. Alright.
Speaker 10: When we fight. We win. When we fight. We win. When we fight.
We win. Because we all deserve better. Yeah. Right. Because we all deserve better.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Our employees deserve better.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 10: Americans deserve better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah. And I'm going tonight because I'm helping to tell the story of one of your own.
Speaker 3: That's right. Alright. Okay.
Speaker 10: I've got a woman named Katie who's joining me tonight. She was hired under the first Trump administration. She was
Speaker 11: hired she was hired
Speaker 10: at US Fish and Wildlife to help Maryland farmers. She did such an exceptional job that she was promoted. And so when Elon Musk and Doge, under president Trump's directive, took up residence here at OPM, they said, well, you're probationary. Time for you to go. She did nothing wrong.
In fact, she did everything right.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 10: Everything right.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 10: And now who's penalized? Someone who's given her life in service to this country, to Maryland farmers, to Americans, someone who thought that if she did everything right that this country would take care of her. Alright. And instead, we're turning our backs on her. Yes.
So I'm standing with Katie tonight just like I'm standing with our workers today. We're here at Ground 0. This is where Elon set up shop.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 10: And I say I say it's time we send Doge and Elon Musk packing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah. Because when we fight We will. When we fight We will. When we fight We will. Because we all deserve better.
God bless.
Speaker 2: Thank you. God bless you. Yeah. You, sir. Alright.
Speaker 0: Congressman John Yoshesi, give him another round of applause if you would.
Speaker 1: Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon. Evict illegal Elon.
Speaker 0: Our jobs are on the line. The morale of our workers are on the line, and these are workers and families again, many of whom live in this area. We wanna hear from someone else who represents the DMV in Prince George's County, Congressman Glenn Ivey. Right. Alright.
Speaker 6: When we fight We win. When we fight We win. When we fight We win.
Speaker 12: And we're winning. We are winning. The tide's turning. Hey. You just heard a few minutes ago.
They're afraid to do town hall meetings now. Yeah. Yeah. They're afraid. Now we just did one in Prince George's County on Saturday.
AFG was in the house. Right? Right. Y'all showed up, showed out. We had, like, almost a thousand people came out.
Almost a thousand people came out, and we're gonna keep going to the people because we know the people are coming with us. Right? Yeah. And we're winning in the courts too. Right?
Yeah. Yeah. Because your lawyers are doing a fantastic job. Yeah. Matter of fact, we just got a court opinion against these guys on Friday that put an injunction in place.
Right? Yeah. Yeah. Because what they're doing is illegal and unlawful. Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Alright. So the movement continues. We've gotta keep fighting. As you heard a few minutes ago, labor, civil rights, we've done this before. Yeah.
We know how to do this. Right? Yeah. We've done it without the White House before. Right?
Yeah.
Speaker 4: We've done it without
Speaker 12: the senate before. Right? Yeah. We've done it without the house before. Right?
Yeah. And we took them all back, didn't we? That's right. And that's when Barack Obama got elected. Right?
Yeah. Yeah. We can do it again. And it starts tonight. There are gonna be a lot of lies from the White House tonight.
Yeah. A lot of lies down from the podium tonight. Yeah. But we know the truth. Right?
Yeah. That's right. We know that what they're doing is illegal. Right? Yeah.
We know that what they're doing is wrong.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 12: And we know that we're gonna turn it around and win. Right? Yeah. Because when we fight
Speaker 6: We win. When we fight We win. We fight We We win.
Speaker 12: Today, we start winning.
Speaker 4: Have a
Speaker 6: great one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Alright. Thank you, sir.
Always.
Speaker 1: Who are we?
Speaker 13: Who are we?
Speaker 0: American Federation of Government Employees, we have descended here upon the office of personnel management to evict Elon Musk. We're gonna bring another veteran of the civil rights movement with us, former president of NAACP, raised in Baltimore, mentored by the hundredth senator Clarence Mitchell junior. Please welcome now congressman who said he ain't going That's right. To hear the the state of fascism speech tonight. It's not no state of the union.
It's a state of fascism.
Speaker 3: Hell, yeah.
Speaker 0: Please welcome congressman Kwaizi Mfume.
Speaker 3: You. Yes, sir. Thank you, Thank you, Mark.
Speaker 13: Yeah. Let's do one thing if we don't do anything else. Remind America that federal employees are the heart blood of this nation.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 13: They are men and women all over the country in every state of the union Yeah. Who work hard, who play by the rules, who love their country, who cherish their faith, and who do a nonpartisan job day in and day out to make this country work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Let's never let people forget that. No. And never let people forget the union that represents them. Yeah. AFGE.
Yeah. AFGE. AFGE. I wanna thank you president f Kelly for joining me just a few days ago for a tele town hall where we had just under 10,000 people participate. People are upset because they recognize this is an illegal action.
And so you've heard, yes, it will be a legal fight. Yes. Yes. It will be a constitutional fight. Yes.
It will be a fight for the heart, the minds, and the souls of men and women across this country
Speaker 11: Yes.
Speaker 13: Who today are trying to figure out how do I pay the mortgage, how do I buy food, how do I go forward without a job. This notion of getting rid of people without due process is about as anti American as you can ever get.
Speaker 3: That's right. You if
Speaker 13: even if you work for a snake, a snake would tell you, we're getting ready to take your job. Yeah. We want you to start getting ready to move out. Yeah. We're gonna give you three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, whatever.
Yeah. But now, Elon Musk, who really let me just calm myself. I don't wanna say that. Go ahead, sir. So, no, I will not be there tonight.
That's right. Elon Musk and Donald Trump are destroying the state of the union.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I don't know why I should be there to sit and listen to him, try to convince me of otherwise. The people in this building and in federal buildings all across this country, they need support. They need help.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And we can't let them down. No. I know the odds look like they're overwhelming, but that's how most fights look. Yeah. We will win this.
We will resist this, and we will find a way to unify all over this country no matter what state you're in, no matter what department in. When we fight, we win. Alright.
Speaker 0: Okay, ma'am. Against
Speaker 3: you, sir.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna talk to you today. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 0: Kwaizi Mfume, congressman Kwaizi Mfume, give him another round of applause. Still in the fight, And now, the man of the hour who is our leader. Who are
Speaker 1: we? AFTG. Who are we?
Speaker 0: AFTG. As we come here today to protect our federal employees who are besieged by Doge and Elon Musk and his teenagers taking over the office of personnel management. And ain't that an insult to 18 year olds just coming. Don't even know just y'all just numbers. Yeah.
Not people. Yeah. Not human beings. Just some numbers on a piece of paper. Yeah.
That they can try to do something. That that's not that's just not right. Well, these are families. They are faces.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Human beings, families, children.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's right.
Speaker 0: Some of us are taking care of our parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Amen? Amen. And then what are we supposed to do when we can't get our retirement? That's just gonna be forfeiting the thin air so we can go up and out of space somewhere. Yeah.
Please welcome. We're hear from Claude Cummings in a minute. Claude gave me a CWA jacket. I don't
Speaker 6: You look good. I
Speaker 0: don't know. I I'm at the AFGE event. I don't have no AFGE. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's on the way.
Speaker 0: It's okay. Because I'm just wondering. Claude had to give me a CWA jacket because I don't have no AFGE jacket. Ladies and gentlemen, our brother, he's gonna be joining me and Claude in Selma. This this is the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
There was no democracy in America before 1965 because most of us couldn't vote, including women.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: There were no protections for the disabled to get into the voting booth. Yeah. They didn't have rap shit. And now this person comes along and wants to take it all away. So it's important not only for doctor Kelly to be here, but to join us in Selma so we can reclaim our democracy from this fascism.
Please welcome the reverend doctor Everett Kelly, AFGE national president. The I think it went out. Check the mic. It just went out. Mic
Speaker 3: check. Can we
Speaker 14: Fix the sound.
Speaker 11: We're getting it. Sound.
Speaker 3: Say something.
Speaker 0: See if
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Speaker 2: one two.
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Well, first of all, I'd like to say thank you to national vice president Otis Johnson and to all the elected officials for being here, the labor leaders. And I want you all to just pause parenthetically and give a round of applause for the workers at OPM. Yeah. It's great to be here with all of you today. My name is Eric Kelly.
I am the proud president of the American Federation of Government Employees representing over 800,000 federal and DC government workers. Right. Now I just left a press conference this morning where the MERIT Act was introduced by representative, TLIB and, Mac McClivre. Now it's designed to reinstate every wrongfully fired federal employee, and LGE will stand behind this bill. That's right.
Now we're here today because there is a job to do, and that job is send Elon Musk and Doge packet. Now, Elon and company like to say that Doge stand for Department of Government Efficiency, but we know that could be further from the truth. Now, truth be told, I don't think Elon Musk and Doge have done one single efficient thing since Trump has been in control of this White House. Or should I say since Elon has been in control of the White House? Because we all know that Elon sits in the big chair.
Uh-oh. And Trump sits in the little chair.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 6: Come on.
Speaker 3: Now, those may stand for many things, but efficiency, it does not. And for these reason, he and his fanboys have got to go.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: What do you say about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, those those stand for disrespect our government employees. Right. Now in my forty four years with AMGE, I have never seen the blatant, disdain, and disrespect for federal employee that we're seeing here today. Now we used to we used to hearing this type of rhetoric from anti worker members of congress and Donald Trump, but mister Twitter finger Uh-huh. Has truly taken things to the next level.
Now one would think that the head of efficiency department would spend some time well more efficiently. Right? Yeah. Nevertheless, he sit behind his phone all day spewing hate, lies, making demands on federal employees, hiding behind OPM's email to taunt and traumatize the members. Now is that efficient?
No. That's not efficient. He spent his time making insulting means and demeaning and discredit the work that all of you do on behalf of the American people. Having followers to troll and antagonize hardworking employees who simply want to do their job.
Speaker 0: Right. Right.
Speaker 3: Do we call that efficient? No. No. FGE, no. It is not efficient.
If one of you spent your time doing what mister Musk does, you would be disciplined. Right?
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Now, you you were you if you were going to probationary employee, you would probably be terminated.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what we're here to do, to evict and fire probationary employee, Elon Musk Yeah. And his Twitter followers. Yeah. They need to get out of OPM and out of our government. Yeah.
Yeah. DOGE stand for disrupt over government e fish effectiveness. Yeah. Mister Musk came into the picture to destroy, divide, and disrupt our government, to dismantle the service. You all performed for the American people, and for that I am proud.
He is a puppet master. Come on. And let me tell y'all one thing. God says Come on. I need a prophet that will speak truth to power, not a puppet on a string.
Uh-oh. We came here today to speak truth to power. Now, now, now, my memory jogged me correct. Did we elect Elon Musk? No.
No. Are we gonna keep playing the twisted little game that he's playing? No. No. Now, I've stated several times.
If you wanna find a way to do a job more efficiently, then talk to the people that's doing it.
Speaker 11: That's
Speaker 3: right. Right? But what I've realized, AFGE, is that Elon doesn't care about efficiency. No. He doesn't care about federal workers, and he doesn't care about the American people.
Now before we evict evict mister Musk and Doge from 1PM, our entire government, let me give you approximately five bullet points of how LGE and federal workers are gonna win this war.
Speaker 0: Come on now.
Speaker 3: Number one. Uh-huh. We're gonna fight back. That's right. Let me hear you say it.
We're gonna fight back. We're gonna fight back. We're gonna fight against all of these attacks on our jobs, our dignity, and our unions. That's right. Number two.
We're gonna protest. Protest. We're gonna rally. Rally. And we're speak truth to power.
Yeah. Against the vision and disruption. That's right. We're gonna, number three, call on congress. Alright.
Tell them to do their blame job. Uh-oh. Yes. Uh-oh. Did y'all hear what I said?
Yeah. I'm a country boy and I like to say it like it is, blame job. Okay. They need to do their job. Elon Musk don't give a care about no one in this country.
Number four, we want them to do their job. Are y'all with me? Yeah. Say do your job. Do your job.
Now, number five, we're gonna stand united and we're gonna stand together as one federal government, as one union. We're gonna stand shoulder to shoulder with our fellow civil servant because when you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.
Speaker 0: That's right. That's right.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna allow them to divide us. No. Never. We will never be defeated. Now we're gonna let this big and a bully and his followers disrespect and demean us.
No. Are we gonna stand together? Are we gonna stay in this fight? Yes. Now it's gonna be tough.
But one thing I know, weeping may endure for the night. Uh-huh. For joy. Uh-huh. Joy come in the morning.
Come on. Yes. The morning is gonna come. Let me tell you one thing else as I close. Uh-huh.
There is an old scripture Uh-huh. That said when the enemy comes in as a flood Uh-huh. I have raised up a standard against it. That standard is a reminder that God had done it before and he will do it again. Will he do it again?
Yes. Will we do it? Yes. We will do it. Stand strong.
Last two words.
Speaker 6: And
Speaker 3: I need you all to do it. Take your time. Last two words. Evict. Elon.
Elon. Elon. Evict. Elon. Elon.
Evict. Elon. Elon. And his puppet masters.
Speaker 1: Evict. Elon. Elon. Evict. Elon.
Elon. Elon. Evict. Elon. Elon.
Speaker 0: Alright. Let's hear it for the national president. Alright. Yeah. Doctor Edward Kelly.
We will hear now from the Metro Metropolitan DC AFL CIO President Samuel Epps, my brother. Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Afternoon. Good afternoon.
Speaker 3: That's what
Speaker 15: we need. One day longer, one day stronger. Right?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 15: So we're gonna be a lot stronger than they are, and we're do it one day longer. I'm just here on behalf of the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL CIO, Sam Epps, representing a 50 affiliate unions across DC, Prince George's County, Maryland, Montgomery, and Southern Maryland, where where many of you here at AFGE live, work, and have church and worship there. And what we're saying at the Metro Council, we stand in solidarity with you. We will fight across all of our affiliates from teachers to housekeepers to electricians, we are here with you now because we know what it is doing to to you. You're directly impacted, but it impacts all of our communities here.
DC just released revenue estimates that they will have to cut $1,000,000,000 by 2028 because of federal workers that are not here working and doing their jobs here in DC. Yeah. Right? And so what we know that is, that'll be Head Start. That'll be teachers pay.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 15: That'll be first responders pay. Right? Hotel workers won't have people staying in the hotels because they come visit you all to get things done with federal government here. Yeah. And so we are standing with you.
And our community service agency, the Metropolitan Washington Council has stood up a solidarity fund for impacted Thank you. Impacted federal workers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 15: And you can go to our website at dclabor.org, and you can access that. We have some criteria, but we are trying to be helpful there with everyone who's impacted by this this this craziness. And what we're gonna do is we're going to evict Elon. Evict Elon. Evict Elon.
Thank you. We're in solid air. Samuel
Speaker 0: Epps, Mitch Paul and Washington, AFL CIO. Yeah. He he's talking about home rule and statehood. Right. Amen?
And what did Trump say? He wants to do away with home rule altogether.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: So that affects us all too, doesn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: He's right. We lose
Speaker 2: more
Speaker 0: per capita
Speaker 11: Yeah. Yep.
Speaker 0: Because of folk who aren't here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Yeah. But yet we serve and benefit them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: You know, this is historic.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: When doctor Kelly speaks, brother F speaks, and some of the other speakers. Our grandparents, some of them migrated from the South
Speaker 2: Yeah. To
Speaker 0: go get jobs in Detroit, in Chicago, in Milwaukee, in industry. Yeah. But then some of them came here
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: To be civil servants and serve that that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And work their way up through the ranks Yes. So that we could finally have in some of these unions, some of these labor unions
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: People who represent our great grandparents.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: We've never had so many women and people of color Yeah. In these positions.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Like in Everett Kelly
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And like our brother here, this was a big fight, a long fight, we're glad he's here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: This means a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: To have the president of the Communications Workers of America. It means a lot. Yeah. To be Claude Cummings, to have him in that position. Give him a round of applause.
Yeah. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. We fight. Win.
When we fight We win. When we fight We win. And we're gonna win. Let's give president Kelly a round of applause for his leadership. Yeah.
And certainly, Mark, we appreciate you. Yeah. So I am here today to let you know the CWA members and retirees have your back.
Speaker 2: Alright. Simple as that.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: We depend on experienced, qualified fellow workers every single day.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We need an independent OPM to make sure that our fellow workforce remains merit based. Yeah. Donald Trump and JD Vance want to look at voting records instead of resumes
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: To decide who is qualified to make sure our water is safe to drink. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: To see that our parents' social security gets deposited on time Yeah. To provide our veterans with health care they need Yes. Does that make sense at all? No. Hell no.
It does not make any sense. We cannot allow this administration to hand control of our civil service system over to the political appointees at the White House. Yeah. Simple as that. The chaos and confusion that Donald Trump thrives on doesn't help working people one damn bit.
That's Not one bit. Yeah. Throwing qualified public servants to the curb doesn't do anything to lower prices or create good jobs or help our kids get a good education. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 4: Do you know who it does help? It helps the people who want to turn every part of our lives into an opportunity for private gain. Yeah. That's what it help. It helps the people who want to rip us off Yeah.
And put our taxes in their own pockets. Yeah. It helps the people who who are billionaires, who run huge corporations and look at public services as a money making opportunity. Donald Trump and the billionaires who put him in office think they have answers to no one but themselves. Yeah.
But that's not true.
Speaker 2: That's
Speaker 4: right. Our country belongs to the people who go to work every day Yeah. And who take pride in their jobs. Yeah. It belongs to the people Yeah.
Who want the freedom to be themselves Yeah. Who want hope for a brighter future for themselves Yeah. And their families. Yeah. Our country belongs to us.
Say that. Our country belongs to us.
Speaker 3: Our country belongs to us.
Speaker 4: And we're gonna use every tool we have to prevent the billionaires and the bullets from taking control. So I got some questions for you.
Speaker 3: I'm going
Speaker 2: to answer them.
Speaker 3: Are we
Speaker 4: going to let them destroy the civil service?
Speaker 3: No. Are we
Speaker 4: going to let them divide us? No. Are we going to fight? Yes. And we're gonna win because when we fight We win.
When we fight We win. When we fight We win. Let's win. Thank you. Bless you, brother.
Speaker 0: Claude Claude Cummings, CWA president, now president Cummings and president Kelly. Can I can I announce the surprise? Yeah. So President Kelly and President Cummings told me that every member of Congress that does not go to speech tonight, they're gonna take him out to dinner. So so so so so you got you got a dinner date tonight because he congressman Byer told me he ain't going, so he's gonna be here you go.
Here's where he wants somebody going dinner. Congressman Don Byer from Virginia, give him a round of applause.
Speaker 11: Here, I thought I was eating at McDonald's tonight. I am not going to the speech tonight
Speaker 13: Alright. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Because, you know, I do respect the tradition of the State of the Union address. It's a good time to come together. But this president has shown nothing but contempt for the US congress, nothing but contempt for The US people. Yeah. You wanna know what makes America great?
It's that building right behind us, the people that work here. Yeah. When you think about the governments around the world that don't work, you think the countries that don't work, it's because their governments don't work.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 11: And, you know, I I can't compete with these guys. They're they're they're so wonderful. Time. I can always speak from my heart. Yeah.
My grandparents came here to work for the federal government.
Speaker 0: Yes, sir.
Speaker 11: My grandmother with the Department of Labor for fifty years. My grandfather, Department of War. Other grandfather, Department of Interior. Wow. My dad was career army.
My wife worked for State Department. Just lost her job. Wow. And we we understand that it is the quality of our federal workforce that makes our country strong in
Speaker 2: every Yes, sir.
Speaker 11: And instead, what we have is Elon who got us exactly backwards. And somehow, they think that by just firing people, by taking over OPM's job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And just throwing everybody out. Yeah. They've missed it. It's the ready fire aim. I mean, it always makes sense to waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: But the people who know about the waste, fraud, and abuse are the people right here.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 11: People that do the job day in and day Yeah. And we're fighting as hard as we know how on Capitol Hill. We have more than a hundred lawsuits. We've won about 25 of them already.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: We have to hope they hold with the Supreme Court. Yeah. We are gonna do everything we possibly can to lift you up. It's the whole notion of the people that are most valuable are the people that have given up their careers, given their their lives. Almost every one of you can make more money selling cars.
I promise you that. We're we're working on it. But instead, you're taking a lower pay in order to serve the American people.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 11: And and we are deeply, deeply grateful. Yeah. And please be hopeful. We are not gonna lose this.
Speaker 3: We're not. We're not. We're not.
Speaker 11: We're here today, but this is a marathon.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: You know, we're we're making progress each and every day.
Speaker 0: That's right.
Speaker 11: What we can't do is be so afraid, so depressed, so so lost because we have to be hopeful, we have to be courageous, we have to fight back in every way that we do. Yep. And when we do that, we're gonna send Elon back to South Africa, which he came from illegally, by the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Speaker 11: And we're gonna make sure that we have the federal government workforce that really makes America ever stronger, ever stronger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And, and by the way, when we take back the house, we're gonna pass the PRO Act.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Alright. And we're gonna
Speaker 11: put this in law so that we respect our workers, all
Speaker 14: of our
Speaker 11: workers, especially our federal workers
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: To make sure that we come together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: By the way, I I've been a businessman for a long time. A long time ago, I figured out the only thing I have to sell is the work that the people I work with do. Yeah. That if if I have people who are motivated and well treated and well respected Yes. Like each other, feel like like they are lifted up, they do a really good job.
Speaker 16: Yes,
Speaker 11: sir. And when you tell them that they're dirt, that they're not important, that they, then they don't do such a good job.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 11: That's right. I just wanna say that if I were Elon Musk, and thank goodness I'm not, I would do it the exact opposite way. I'd be coming to Everett
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 11: And others and say, how do we make this workforce happy, productive, respected, well paid, and lifting up every service that we provide to the American people? You are the the people who serve America. You are America. Yeah. And I'm so grateful to be a small part of this.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Congressman Don Byer, who's not going to the state of fascism address tonight, and and I'm glad he brought up South Africa. They wanna relitigate apartheid.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Elon Musk is representing a government in a country that's long gone apartheid South Africa. Yeah. Donald Trump is representing another country, not this one that still exists.
Speaker 3: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: I I'm saying that. That's that's not I put that on him. You blame me for saying that.
Speaker 2: That's That's alright. It's okay.
Speaker 0: If y'all get a minute, watch the mini not the it's the television series out a few years ago Yeah. Called The Americans.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Y'all know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 0: Y'all need to watch that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Because because you government can't function if you fire everybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 0: So why would you not want it to function?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Yeah. You wanted to bring it down.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 11: That's
Speaker 0: right. For the benefit of someone else. Amen?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: So we gotta be we gotta be very, clear about that in in in what we're looking at. And just one other thing since he brought it up. He's reminiscing about apartheid South South Africa while he decimates Africa today. Yeah. These electronic devices that we use run on batteries.
His car is Tesla.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Laptops run on batteries made from minerals in The Congo.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Mined by slave labor and child labor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Yeah. So we gotta keep that in mind too. Now wait a minute now. Wait a minute. Know your history.
Labor.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
Speaker 0: Made the difference in ending apartheid. Yeah. His old country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Labor got Nelson Mandela out of prison.
Speaker 4: Yeah. That's right.
Speaker 0: So we might need labor again to save the Congo.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And get Elon Musk out of here. Amen?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Randy Irwin of the National Federation is with us. Give him a round of applause.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Randy. Alright. Thank you.
You. You. Brother. Alright.
Speaker 8: Thank you
Speaker 2: for having me. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Proud to stand here with AMG District fourteen. Appreciate you. I'm Randy Irwin, national president and nephew. Represent a 10,000 federal workers nationwide. First, I wanna thank all the federal employees for the incredible work that you do for this country every day.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Alright. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8: People forget the important work.
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Keeping our military ready. Yeah. Caring for our veterans. Yeah. Caring for our national parks
Speaker 2: and
Speaker 8: forests and public lands. Yeah. Main maintaining our homeland security Yeah. Clean air, clean water Yeah. Safe food, safe air travel Yeah.
Secure borders
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Secure passports
Speaker 3: Yeah, sir.
Speaker 8: And so much more.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Affordable housing.
Speaker 8: Affordable housing. Yeah. But federal employees Yeah. Your work is what makes America great. Yeah.
You are the backbone of this country. Yeah. And so many, this administration and then and fools in congress have forgotten that. Yeah. So NEFFE is proud to stand with AMG today and tell Elon Musk and his Doge cronies, you should not be at OPM.
Get out of here. Yeah. Pack your crap and get out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 8: You don't know what you're doing. Yeah. Go ahead, man. They don't know what they're doing. They're breaking the law, and they're undermining every federal agency out there that is doing critical, often life saving work for the American people.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: We've seen them file fire wildland firefighters.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Are
Speaker 8: you kidding me? Air traffic controllers and other FAA folks keeping our air traffic safe. Are you kidding me? Yeah. VA suicide hotline workers.
Yes. How can you do this? How how are you kidding me? Nuclear regulators. The list goes on and on.
Yeah. So they sent a fork in the road to to that fork in the road email to 90% of federal workers out there.
Speaker 11: Do
Speaker 8: you know how irresponsible irresponsible that is? Yeah. Come on. Yeah. We're tired of it.
Speaker 3: Tired of it.
Speaker 8: We're tired of Elon Musk and his cronies weaponizing OPM for a doge agenda. Yeah. We're tired of Elon Musk and his cronies forcing a usually meticulously law abiding agency like OPM to do things that are illegal. Yeah. We're tired of OPM of Elon Musk and his cronies accessing highly sensitive personal information of our members and not caring for that information.
You're right. We're tired of Elon Musk and his cronies sidelining the dedicated civil servants that work in this building. Yeah. I've been working for with them for twenty four years. They do great work.
Yeah. And they're sidelining them to break the law. Yeah. The work being done by the federal government is serious work. Yeah.
DOGE doesn't take what is done seriously. Yeah. So they can't be here at OPM putting the sticks in the spokes of our government.
Speaker 3: That's right, sir.
Speaker 8: Every day that Elon Musk and his cronies are here, they are doing irreparable harm
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: To the federal government.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: And by the way, Trump and Doge, to do these things, he is violating the law. He is violating his the president, by allowing Doge to do this, is violating his oath of office. Yeah. Under section two Yeah. Article three of the constitution Yes, sir.
Constitution Yes, sir. The president has to faithfully execute the laws of this country.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And he is not doing that. No. The American people should be pissed about this. I don't care who you voted for.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's right. That's right.
Speaker 8: So now we have new number, new number. A 75,000 federal workers have now either been laid off or forced into a, you know, a deferred resignation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Okay? That's that's terrible.
Speaker 3: That's
Speaker 8: true. Among them, we've got over 50,000 veterans
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: That are now jobless
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Because of these jerks. Yeah. Okay? That's unacceptable. 50,000 jobless veterans.
I can't believe that. And their aim no. They they have not taken their foot off the gas. They wanna lay off 75% of the federal workforce. Yeah.
If they're successful, that'll be half a million middle class veterans jobless because of these heartless sons of guns over here.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Come Come on.
Speaker 8: And I just wanna touch on the hypocrisy of Elon Musk. Yeah. This guy put out a tweet a couple weeks ago calling people on federal programs and federal workers part of the parasite class. Yeah. Did you see this?
Yeah. Okay. There's not a person in this country who has benefited more from federal programs than Elon Musk. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: Okay? Right. Yet he's gonna call 9,100,000 veterans on veterans programs parasites.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: They're not parasites. They're heroes.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah. He's gonna call 77% of people on Social Security are seniors that rely Social Security to be kept out of poverty. He's gonna call them parasites? Hell no.
Speaker 3: No. No. And
Speaker 8: at this point, we know that this doge effort has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency. No. He has been running out off the best and brightest in government. A lot of these folks that were probationary workers were only probationary workers because they got promoted into into new positions.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 8: Some of them have been with the federal government for decades. They're the best and brightest. The list goes on. Worse maybe worst of all, he is creating a toxic work environment in the federal government. Folks, this is not a recipe for efficiency.
This is a recipe for disaster. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 8: So, you know, after nine eleven, the terrorist attack, we said never forget. And right now, we are telling the dedicated workers that keep our country safe. We've we've told them to scram, and and we are we are forgetting the hard lessons learned from nine and 09:11.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It should not take another terrorist attack for for this country to wake up and say this garbage has to stop.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: And and the worst part of it all is that these cuts don't really have to happen. Elon Musk was in the in in the, Oval Office the other day, with a cabinet saying, oh, well, if we don't have all these cuts, well, we're gonna we're gonna go bankrupt. That's not true. They're pushing through a 4,500,000,000,000 tax cut for the only the only the wealthiest in Americans will benefit from that, and they're doing that concurrently. We're not we're not going broke if they're trying to push through the biggest tax cut in history.
Get lost with that crap.
Speaker 3: That's right. That's right.
Speaker 8: Alright. So so, Doge, pack your crap and get out.
Speaker 2: Alright.
Speaker 8: You don't know what you're doing. Yeah. You're putting people in danger. Yeah. The dough's gotta go from OPM.
Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 2: Alright. Alright. Appreciate you.
Speaker 0: Appreciate you. Appreciate you.
Speaker 8: You for your Thank time.
Speaker 0: Amen. Let's hear it again for Randy Irwin. Give him another round of applause. Alright. All of us here in solidarity together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Let's hear now from Brittany Anderson of Pride at Work. Alright. Where's
Speaker 2: Brittany? Alright, Brittany.
Speaker 0: There you
Speaker 4: are. Hi.
Speaker 0: Thank brother. Okay. Come on now. Alright.
Speaker 17: Good afternoon, siblings.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My
Speaker 17: name is Brittany Anderson, and I'm a proud union queer.
Speaker 2: Alright.
Speaker 17: Yeah. Yeah. I serve as the interim executive director of Pride at Work, which is the labor movement's organizing hub for LGBTQIA plus workers and union members, including many members of AFGE and other federal workers. I wanna thank president Kelly and all of you, the membership of AFGE for your leadership
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 17: In this cross roads in our American history and for the work that you do every single day to make our country, our economy, and our communities function. My mother is a federal worker in rural Missouri. So it makes me particularly angry to see billionaires who only got where they are because their daddies were rich claiming to know anything about real work or who is qualified to do it.
Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
Speaker 17: Let's be clear about the lies Trump and Elon tell about the office of personnel management. OPM protects merit based jobs.
Speaker 2: Yes. That's right.
Speaker 17: So and let's also talk about why Trump and Musk and MAGA Republicans tell these lies. The attacks on federal workers, on transgender kids and adults, on immigrants, on black Americans are an intentional strategy
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Right. To divide the working class.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Yep.
Speaker 17: The ultra wealthy and the politicians they buy want to distract us from their real agenda
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Which is to lower wages.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 17: Bust unions.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 17: And make our health care more expensive. Yeah. So they can keep lining our their pockets with the profits.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Speaker 17: But we aren't falling for it. No. No. No. When we see these tactics for what they are, we can join together across our differences to build a properly funded government
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 17: And an economy that works for all of us, whether we are black or brown, Asian, white or Latino, native or newcomer, trans or cis, straight or queer, a person of faith or not. And to build that better future, we need to protect and invest in our federal workforce, not dismantle it. From the Pullman sleeping cars to Selma to Stonewall Yeah. We will build a government, country, and economy where all of us can thrive, no exceptions. Yes.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Let's hear it. Let's hear it for Britney again.
Speaker 3: Alright. Alright. This
Speaker 0: this obsession the White House has with our LGBTQIA community. Britney is here. We are here Yeah. Because labor is here. Yeah.
And a lot of what Britney is saying that we need to keep building, we've already built. That's what they wanna take away.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We've come too far Yeah. To to turn back now. Amen? Right. Thank you, Brenda.
Give her another round of applause.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 0: Now we wanna hear representing black voters. Where's Danielle? Black voters matter. Danielle Brown. Come on, Danielle.
Speaker 2: Danielle. Danielle. Alright. Alright.
Speaker 14: Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. My name is Danielle Brown. I'm the national co field director for black voters matter. But more importantly, I'm an AFGE girl.
Speaker 3: Come on. Alright. Alright. By
Speaker 14: way of local seventeen thirty eight out of Salisbury, North Carolina where I got my organizing skills Yeah. And my labor skills.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
Speaker 14: So you learn from the best. Yeah. Today, I wanna focus on two words. One is civil, the other is service. Wow.
Because there's been nothing civil about firing government workers who have done nothing but serve this country.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: There has been nothing civil about gutting benefits that leave children starving and illiterate.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: There's been nothing civil about making veterans who have served this country wait for treatment because there's no one to service their needs.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 14: There's been nothing civil about dismantling the postal service and crippling our mail system.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: There's been nothing civil about DEI being used as a resource to define hatred, racism, and bigotry.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Alright.
Speaker 14: There has been nothing civil that has come out of this federal government since January.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: So today, we focus on what is civil. What is civil is continuing to fight for voting rights.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: What is civil is continuing to fight for organizing rights.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: What is civil is continuing to fight for our rights
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: As government employees
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Here in this community.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 14: As we continue to fight and as we say in black lord black voters matter, we fight back.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See? Come on. How?
Speaker 14: Black voters matter not only stands with our union siblings, but we are in the fight with you in the communities across 30 cut across 30 different states
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Here in this country.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: We are not about to stand for someone that will that continues to abuse the power through blatant racism, fascism that seeks to devour our democracy. Yeah. Democracy. Yeah. This has been an embarrassment
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 14: To the voting rights and to the work that each one of us have put in in 2024 when we knocked on doors, when we made phone calls, and when we said go to the polls. Yeah. This has been an embarrassment to our country
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 14: As a whole. Yeah. So we stand today here with here with all of our gov our government employees
Speaker 0: Yeah.
Speaker 14: And our siblings to say that we will continue to fight back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Let's see it for Danielle Brown once again. Black voters matter. Yeah. Well, okay. You know, I don't have no black voters matter jacket either.
Y'all see them nasty jacket today? Yeah. We got to have a jacket meeting. I just I'd be remiss. I should have said it when Kwaizi was here, but looking at Claude and others who are members of the of the NAACP family, we wanna just lift up the name of mama Hazel Dukes Yeah.
Yeah. Who was a stalwart
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: And and helped to consummate the marriage between civil rights and labor. Amen? Yeah. So we lift her up for her ninety years of over ninety years of service
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: To our people. Amen?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Amen.
Speaker 0: We got some retirees here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We got a few retirees? Yeah. Look, folks, retired still out here, but you never retired from the struggle, do you?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 0: Reggie Booth. Come on, brother. Brother well, give Reggie brother Reggie a round of applause. Alright. Alright.
Speaker 16: Alright, Reggie. Afternoon, everybody. I appreciate you all coming out here, and I'm really low low shook up right now. I re recently retired, you know, from the government. I did six years in the in the air force.
Was part of it. Tell me back up. Come on. Okay. Can y'all hear me now?
Yeah. Okay. Like I said, dealing with with some frustrates, especially when I heard him mention the the 50,000 veterans that that have lost their their their their jobs Mhmm. Since all of this this is going on. You know, we every everybody should be upset about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 16: You know, just like even when he mentioned, lest we never forget, you know, nine eleven. When nine eleven happened, I was, working at the Pentagon. And I was a a maintenance person. And for, you know, everybody else you know, a lot of folk were able to go home, but those of us on the maintenance side had to had to stay there and go inside of that that that blast zone to make sure that we secure water valves for the air conditioning heating and for the fire department, you know, to put out the fire so that the building could continue to remain open as the generals and everybody flew in order to be able to prepare for us to go over overseas and kick ass of those who had just attacked us. So so to hear that, you know, it's very frustrating because a lot of people were lined up, you know, after that to go over and fight for their their their country.
And and a lot a lot of them didn't come back. Yeah. But that's that's something they they wanted to do, and a lot of them did come back. And a lot of those, they they they come came back. You know, they deal with the the mental and the physical scars that they bought back.
Also, you know, there are those of us here that deal with whether mental or or or physical scars, you know, that began, you know, while we were in the military and continued on a lot of time. You know, we you kinda keep those things, you know, to ourself. I retired January eleventh of this year. I'm relying on this building right here to remain open. Yeah.
You know, when I when I have to go and and log on every day and wait and see the disc come or wait and see the dot come or you you you look and you know you you they said your pay gonna be there, but your pay isn't there. But but you also, you know, get numbers to call, but no no one answers because of the fact that everything is, you know, is is downsizing so quickly. I I I I feel sorry for everybody who works here right now, not knowing from day to day, whether when they come here, whether they they they'll the the fake handshakes that they're being greeted with Yeah. To try to make it look like want want you all to think that everything is fine up in here, you know, when it when it's really not. It's a lot of frustration.
It's a lot of a lot of fear. You got childcare, whatever you wanna say, being, you know, ran up in here right now, young people basically trying to put down those who've been working here all of these years and make it seem like somebody 18, 19 years old could come in here and have the the the the experience that that that you have, and and and that's just not, you know, that's that's that's not so. Right. You know, I wrote some things down. Like I said, I'm fraud so so frustrated, but I'm just trying to make sure, you know, that that, that keep everything, in here.
Op you know, what I said, OPM, just like other agencies that are an attacker, need to keep employees safe and ensure there are adequate policies that don't fluctuate based on who's in the in the in the White House. Regardless of who the president is right now, Musk, Trump, whatever. We all know, you know, what's going on.
Speaker 11: Mhmm.
Speaker 16: The mass firing, the risks that are taking place are going to place past and present government employees in harm's way. We need the services provided by OPM to remain fully operational as a government.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 13: Let me
Speaker 16: say that again. We need the services provided by OPM to remain fully operational as a government. Yeah. I've spoke I spoke with veterans and non veterans alike at OPM, and they are worried, not just about themselves, but about the harms Americans will face now and in the future.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 16: It's gonna get much worse for employees as OPM continues to be ground zero, and they are ground zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 16: OPM is ground zero
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 16: For the onslaught of attacks on hardworking government employees Yeah. And other federal federal agencies. Many who have served their country are now being spat upon and forced out of the doors as buildings are being taken over. Support OPM. Yeah.
Yeah. OPM. Yeah. Support OPM.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 16: We need them to remain independent from the White House and Doge. Evict Doge. Get the fork out of OPM. Okay.
Speaker 0: Support OPM. Support OPM. Support OPM. Support OPM. OPM.
Speaker 2: Support OPM.
Speaker 0: Now wait a minute. Did Reggie say that they run their daycare? Did you say that? That might be the line of the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Guess give Reggie another round of applause.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 0: And lastly, one of the individuals affected, you can't help but know. It's we're like one at the most, two people removed from someone who's affected by we all know somebody Yeah.
Speaker 8: Who's
Speaker 0: been affected by this. And here to close us out, our dear sister, who is just one such person
Speaker 3: Alright.
Speaker 0: Who was in that category of probationary employee. Yes. Why don't you come and tell us? Shanice Mundell is gonna tell her story. Come on, Alright,
Speaker 2: sis. Sorry. Hello,
Speaker 17: everybody. Hello.
Speaker 9: Name is Shanice Mundell. I live in Maryland. I was an employee of OPM. I'm I'm a union member, chapter thirty two.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I'm also a veteran.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 9: And Yeah. A mom I'm I'm a mom of three kids. My youngest one is 17. I as of, you know, February 13, I was employed OPM member. I protected the postal workers that deliver your mail every day.
Yes. During rain, sleet, snow, sunshine, I was one of the employees that made sure they were protected to get the mail to you. Thank you. Thank you. Right now, I just wanna bring awareness to everyone out here of what's going on.
I was fired thirty minutes before the end of my day
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 9: Through a video email. Wow. It was a prerecorded email telling me in thirty minutes, I I 03:00, I would have to I would be terminated. I had to gather up my things. I would receive a follow-up email regarding my termination.
So now I'm unemployed. I don't know what kind of efficiency, Elon Musk thinks he's doing, taking people from their jobs, putting them on unemployment No. Making them have to apply for SNAP benefits.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9: You know, we we're we just wanted to go to work every day and do our jobs. Yeah. You know, I I don't I don't know what's going on. We're living in an upside downtown right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But I I do know this is not going to defeat me.
Speaker 3: That's right. Right.
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna let it stop me. I'm actually thinking about running for something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Come on. So Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 9: now they have a problem on their hands because I'm gonna keep amplifying my voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.
Speaker 9: So, you know, just keep us in your prayers. And as the smart, beautiful Kamala Harris said, we will not go back.
Speaker 2: Alright. We are not going back. We're
Speaker 3: not going back.
Speaker 8: Not at all.
Speaker 3: We ain't going back. Bless you. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Let's hear it for Shanice Mandel, who we're proud had the courage out here to come out today and announce her candidacy for president of The United States in 2020. Let's give her another round of applause. Amen. See what y'all did? She was just trying too.
See what y'all did? She was just trying to come work at OPM every day, and y'all done radicalized her to run for president. You're gonna regret that. You're regret it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We want everyone to encourage their members
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Of congress, their elected officials to support h r four nine two, the save the civil service act.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 0: Is that right?
Speaker 2: That's what
Speaker 3: it's called? Yeah.
Speaker 0: Alright. We wanna thank everybody for being here. This won't be the last time.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 0: We're keep our heads up. When we fight, we win.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Evict Elon. Evict Elon. Evict Elon. Evict Elon.
Evict Elon. Evict Elon. Who are we? AFGD. Who are we?
AFGD. Who are we?
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I’ve been reflecting on the situation of a government worker who has had little to do since 1996. Despite earning around $100,000 a year, he spends his time writing books—both fiction and non-fiction—while taxpayers cover his salary. It raises questions about the value of such positions and what people do with their time when they’re essentially paid to do nothing. His success as a mystery writer is notable, but it highlights the disparity between public service and productivity.
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
This is why we desperately needed Elon Musk’s DOGE “When this government worker goes to the office every day there's nothing to do. There's nothing to pretend to do — His work days have been pretty much empty since March 1996” MAKING $100,000 PER YEAR “Taxpayers are covering his generous paycheck. How much do you get paid to do nothing? About a hundred thousand a year. So what do you do all day when you go to the office? I've managed to publish a couple of books, some short story fiction, a little bit of non-fiction writing. Yes, with all that free time and with taxpayers footing the bill, he's become a successful mystery writer”
Video Transcript AI Summary
I'm a government worker, and since March 1996, my workdays have been empty. It's not that I don't want to work, but they won't let me. Taxpayers are covering my generous paycheck of about a hundred thousand a year to do nothing.
So what do I do all day? I've managed to publish a couple of books, some short story fiction, and a bit of non-fiction writing. With all that free time, I've become a successful mystery writer and more. I even joined a health club near the office just to break up the day. I guess I'm good at doing nothing.
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Speaker 0: When this government worker goes to the office every day
Speaker 1: There's nothing to do. There's nothing to pretend to do.
Speaker 0: Though Edward McSweegan once managed a large portfolio of research at the National Institutes of Health his workdays have been empty since
Speaker 1: March 1996.
Speaker 0: It's not that he doesn't want to work, he says they won't let him. Meantime, taxpayers are covering his generous paycheck. How much do you get paid to do nothing?
Speaker 1: About a hundred thousand a year.
Speaker 0: So what do you do all day when you go to the office?
Speaker 1: I've managed to publish a couple of books, some short story fiction, a little bit of non fiction writing.
Speaker 0: Yes, with all that free time and with tax payers footing the bill, he's become a successful mystery writer and more.
Speaker 1: I wound up joining a health club near the office just to sort of break up the day.
Speaker 0: Oddly enough, he's been getting good job I
Speaker 1: guess I'm good at doing nothing.
reSee.it AI Summary
I just received a significant update from Elon Musk regarding DOGE, highlighting expected savings of $150 billion in FY 2026, thanks to strong leadership and the DOGE team. He pointed out the absurdity of situations like unborn individuals receiving unemployment insurance, emphasizing the need to address waste and fraud in government. I agree that identifying these issues is straightforward; just look in any direction, as there’s plenty to uncover. It truly is a target-rich environment.
@GuntherEagleman - Gunther Eagleman™
🚨Elon Musk just gave a huge update on DOGE! "Thanks to your fantastic leadership, this amazing Cabinet, and the DOGE team, we anticipate savings in FY 2026 of $150 billion." "Some of it is just absurd. People getting unemployment insurance who have not been born yet. Come on. That is just crazy." "Some of these things, if you ask me, how will you find waste and fraud in the government? Actually, just go in any direction. That‘s how you find it. It is very common." "It is a target-rich environment."
Video Transcript AI Summary
The speaker announces anticipated savings of $150 billion in FY 2026 by reducing waste and fraud, citing examples such as people fraudulently receiving unemployment insurance. The speaker suggests waste and fraud are easily found within the government. The speaker believes these savings will result in better services for the American people and ensure tax dollars are spent sensibly. Speaker 0 praises the team's skills in identifying previously unnoticed issues and their computer proficiency, expressing a desire to retain them long-term. Speaker 1 mentions working with Howard on the "Trump gold card operation."
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Speaker 0: Very much. Great job.
Speaker 1: Lovely lot. Well, thanks to your fantastic leadership, this amazing cabinet, and the very talented Doge team. I'm excited to announce that we we we anticipate savings in FY 2026 from reduction of waste and fraud by $150,000,000,000 And I mean and some of it is just absurd, like people getting unemployment insurance who haven't been born yet. I mean, I think anyone can appreciate whether I mean, come on. That's just crazy.
So, yes, some of these things if you ask me like, well, how are you going to find ways in Ford in the federal in the government? I'm like, well, actually, just go in any direction. That's how you find it. It's just it's very common. It's as the military would say, target rich environment.
So I think we're doing a lot of good and an excellent collaboration with the cabinet to achieve these savings, and it'll actually result in better services for the American people. And then we're gonna be spending their tax dollars in a way that is sensible and and fair and good.
Speaker 0: And your people are fantastic. In fact, hopefully, they'll stay around for the long haul. We'd like to keep as many as we can. They're great. Smart.
Sharp. Right? Finding things that nobody would have thought of. Very computer savvy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We're we're we're working with Howard to get the that's the Trump gold card operation.
@amuse - @amuse
DOGE: Why is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse such a huge critic of DOGE and Elon Musk? Turns out he's been funneling millions to an NGO that pays his wife millions. His wife isn't paid by just one government funded NGO but two including the Atlantic Council. The corruption is deep.
@CL4WS_OUT - 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘™️
White House releases net worth numbers from DOGE's Congressional Audits. THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED NOW! #DOGE https://t.co/0bwGAJINqF