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DC Residents said they were not fans of DOGE until they learned how the government spends their tax dollars. https://t.co/VLkhBuqAd1
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Do you think the government spends too much money? Absolutely, it's a given. Recently, they spent $750,000 to study whether it was one small step for a man or one small step for mankind during the moon landing. How is that justified? It's ridiculous.
Then there's a million dollars spent to see if cocaine makes Japanese quail more sexually promiscuous. Who cares about quail? And $100,000 to determine if tequila or gin makes sunfish more aggressive? That's absurd.
These expenditures are not a good use of taxpayer dollars, especially when you consider how much is spent on military funding.
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Speaker 0: Fans of Doge, but when the Fox News at night team asked them about government spending tonight, we got some revealing answers. Do you
Speaker 1: think the government spends too much money? Of
Speaker 0: course. Yeah. Well, by definition. Right?
Speaker 1: Do you think the government spends too much money? That's a loaded question. The government recently spent 750 k to study whether if it was one small set for a man or one small set for a man, the moon landing. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 0: I would wonder how in the world they spent that money. Stupid.
Speaker 1: Could you share taxpayer money?
Speaker 0: No. Absolutely not. I mean, aside from whether they should have spent it, how do you spend $750,000 on that question?
Speaker 1: 1,000,000 to study if cocaine makes Japanese quail more sexually promiscuous.
Speaker 0: Quail to birds? Absolutely not. I know they're not doing it. Stupid. Why not?
Who cares?
Speaker 1: A 100 k to study if tequila or gin makes sunfish more aggressive.
Speaker 0: Sunfish. Wow. Who cares? It's a 100 k compared to the what? How much is our my military spending out?
Speaker 1: Good use of taxpayer dollars?
Speaker 0: Not a good use
Speaker 1: of my
@TrumpWarRoom - Trump War Room
🚨 President Trump signs an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE https://t.co/0hsYFy0KmO
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An order has been established to create the Department of Governmental Efficiency, known as DOS, which will hire around 20 people to ensure implementation. There is a significant issue with delays in approvals, as seen with the January 6th hostages, where processes can take weeks or months. Despite a favorable Supreme Court ruling six months ago, there has been no action. The treatment of individuals involved has been harsh, with brutal handling by judges and prosecutors. Regarding the sentencing of those who assaulted police officers on January 6th, there is a review of cases involving two Washington police officers who faced five-year sentences for their actions, and considerations are being made to offer them leniency.
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Speaker 0: This is an order creating and implementing the Department of Governmental Efficiency known as DOS. K. That's a big one. Is he on us gonna get out of the West Lien office? No.
He's getting an office for about 20 people that we're hiring to make sure that these get implemented. We have a problem in this country. He's not an executive order. It doesn't get done for 6 months. As an example, when we allow the j six hostages to go out, it might not be approved in under the old days by for 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 6 months.
You know, they had a good ruling for the Supreme Court, and it's like nothing happened. That ruling was 6 months ago. You know that. And it was like they didn't have a ruling. They've been treated very unfair.
The judges have been absolutely brutal. The prosecutors have been brutal. Nobody's ever treated people in this country like that. Mister president, are you committing the sentences of anyone who assaulted the police officer on January 6th? Well, we're looking at 2 police officers, actually, that Washington police officers who who went after an illegal and things happened, and they ended up putting them in jail.
They got 5 year jail sentences. You know the case. Yes, ma'am. And we're looking at that in order to give them a, we gotta give them a break.
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@elonmusk Thank God We now Have DOGE to Help Dig us out of the Hole Big Government has Created.. Less than 2 weeks & Already Saved US Tax Payers over 1 Billion by Cutting out Useless DEI Programs! https://t.co/xuuRtqcXZP
@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!
@unlimited_ls - Unlimited L's
🚨Chuck Schumer on DOGE: "The American people will not stand for an un-elected secret group to run rampant through the executive branch. Being innovative is good, but Mr. Musk, this isn't a tech startup. These are public institutions." https://t.co/yPcFatrJuE
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The American people will not accept an unelected group controlling the executive branch. While innovation is important, public institutions like Social Security, Medicare, and national defense are at stake, and citizens deserve a voice in these matters. Elections reflect the will of the people, and just because one viewpoint wins doesn't mean we abandon democracy. We cannot replace centuries of democratic practice with a small group that believes they know better than the collective wisdom of the American populace.
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Speaker 0: And the American people, mark my words, the American people will not stand for an unelected secret group to run rampant through the executive branch. Being innovative is good. But mister Musk, this isn't a tech startup. These are public institutions that deal with things like social security and Medicare and national defense and provide for the well-being of the American people. And the American people have a right to be part of that debate.
Part of that debate. The elections occurred and once one viewpoint got a few more votes than the other, but that doesn't mean we throw out democracy. That doesn't mean what's been done for centuries in this country should just go out the window and be substituted by a small group of people who think they know a lot more than the wisdom of the American people.
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Elon Musk expressed frustration that DOGE is exposing a radical-left shadow government, emphasizing the need to return power to the people from an unelected bureaucracy. In response, another user criticized a figure named Chuck for wanting to replace American workers with illegal immigrants, suggesting he is compromised.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
He’s mad that @DOGE is dismantling the radical-left shadow government in full view of the public. This is our ONE CHANCE to return POWER to the PEOPLE from an unelected BUREAUcracy back to DEMOcracy!! Only with the support of YOU can this succeed. Thank you, unknown soldiers.
@floridanow1 - floridanow1
@elonmusk @DOGE Chuck also wanted to have American workers replaced by illegals....so this man is owned. https://t.co/SEktC6bd5e
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We are currently facing a significant labor shortage due to a declining birth rate. To secure a prosperous future for America, it is essential to welcome and embrace immigrants, including dreamers. Our ultimate aim is to support dreamers and provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented individuals living here, estimated at around 11 million.
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Speaker 0: Now more than ever, we're short of workers. We have a population that is not reproducing it on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we're gonna have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers, and all of them because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers but get a path to citizenship for all 11,000,000 or however many undocumented there are here.
@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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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
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@WesternLensman - Western Lensman
Dem Rep DeLauro is apoplectic about Trump and DOGE — — says Americans are outraged that the Trump admin is "dismantling the federal government." "Your kid may be in a classroom that doesn't have a teacher!" https://t.co/eFotphPdlq
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Cutting essential services has significant repercussions for American families. Denying school lunches, cutting Pell grants and student aid impacts education, leading to teacher shortages and harming special education programs. These cuts affect middle and working-class families, jeopardizing their economic stability and future. The federal government is being dismantled, limiting access to vital services and resources needed to raise families and ensure economic security. The consequences are far-reaching, impacting everyone's ability to thrive. It's crucial to understand the human cost of these cuts.
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Speaker 0: The other piece of that is the outrage of the American public. And when you when you think about there is a legal issue, but you have to think about what the, you know, what are the repercussions to American families? You take education. You're you're looking at denying people, school lunches. You are taking the opportunity for a college education if you cut Pell grants.
You cut student financial aid. There are a whole range of of of of what these services do for the American public. That's the word that has to get out. When you cut education, you cut 72 you cut title one, seventy two thousand teachers nationwide are gone. Your kid may be in a classroom that doesn't have a teacher.
Special education for developmentally challenged kids, that will be cut. What happens to those kids? But, again, it's USAID, it's education. They're gonna go to Medicaid, and it is about the effect of what happens in the lives of American people, of middle class families, of working families, of what is going to happen, to to their ability, to be able to survive both economically and to to to be able to, have a future going forward. That is what they are doing.
They are dismantling the federal government, which will deny the American people the services and the resources that allow them to help to raise their families, have a secure economy, and a secure future for themselves.
@WesternLensman - Western Lensman
🚨NEW: Chuck Schumer takes to the Senate floor to urge federal workers to use the Democrat 'Whistleblower Portal' to report “wrongdoing” by DOGE — — because Senate Democrats want to "keep accountability and transparency alive." 🤡🌎 https://t.co/Foct8T28WZ
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We champion transparency and accountability. Donald Trump attempted to manipulate our democracy for personal gain, but Senate Democrats are fighting back. We've launched a whistleblower portal to address concerns about potential wrongdoing, specifically related to the "Doge" issue. We urge Americans to report any observed misconduct. We believe in government transparency and accountability, values this administration has neglected. This whistleblower portal is a step towards restoring those vital principles.
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Speaker 0: We believe in transparency. We believe in accountability. Donald Trump has tried to reshape our entire democracy to fit his unlawful impulses and serve his personal political interests. Senate Democrats won't let him. And so we have the whistleblower portal.
We are urging Americans who see some real wrongdoing being created by this Doge thing to report it. We want all we I think all Americans want government to be transparent. We all agree that ensuring accountability is vital, but thus far, this new administration has done the opposite. Today, with the whistleblower portal, we senate Democrats are taking one step to help keep accountability and transparency alive.
@WesternLensman - Western Lensman
Elon-obsessed Jamie Raskin hijacked a committee hearing to rail about DOGE’s “mutant teenage racist computer hackers” — — and this deregulation advocate/entrepreneur wasn’t having it. https://t.co/0AWyTTF1Ss
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They've seized financial systems at the Treasury, gaining access to Americans' financial records, members of Congress, prosecutors, and regulators. Courts have repeatedly stated that they're violating the Constitution and laws. That's what deserves attention, not administrative state discussions.
All you've done is complain about the process. Isn't the goal to improve the lives of Americans? It seems you're focused on process and think that improvements do not matter. If the goal is to improve lives, the focus shouldn't be on taking down individuals. The focus should be on how to make the American people better off.
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Speaker 0: He and his mutant teenage racist computer hackers have taken possession of financial payment systems at the United States Department of Treasury, meaning data access to the private financial records of every American citizen, every member of Congress, every federal prosecutor, every regulator who's supposed to be looking at what his business does, and what have the court's been saying? They've they've said a dozen times in three weeks that they're violating the constitution of The United States and the laws passed by Congress. That's what's going on in America today. That's what we should be having a hearing about, not some eerie academic, conversation about the administrative state.
Speaker 1: And the fact that, mister Raskin, you're here this whole time we've been here, You've been you've just been complaining about the process. I'd call it a process. And, again, I'm not agreeing disagreeing with with your issues right now around Musk and the process that's following mister Vladeck, the process that you're following. At some point, what is the end game? Isn't the end game to make us, the American people, better off?
Isn't it? Isn't it? No. I hear you saying that the stuff that would make us better off doesn't matter. All you care about right now is a process of Musk and his associates are not doing this the right way.
The goal is the goal more and right or not? If you say it is, as I think you should be saying, then the fight shouldn't be about, you know, we need to take Moscow down or Trump down. Let us rethink that if you want, but keep your eye on the ball, and your ball should be me. It should be me. I'm sorry.
It should be me. Yeah. It should be me. How do we make me better off? And you Thank you, mister Jordan.
You bet. And by me, you mean the American people. That's what I mean by that.
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Elon’s DOGE initiative has reportedly saved taxpayers $982 million by eliminating wasteful spending in the Department of Education. This includes cutting $881 million from 89 contracts for unnecessary studies and $101 million from DEI training grants. Trump highlighted the shocking level of waste and signed an executive order for federal agencies to collaborate with Elon’s team to combat fraud and abuse. In response, D.C. bureaucrats are protesting to protect their positions, but the focus remains on delivering results and returning funds to the American people.
@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal
🚨🇺🇸DOGE SLASHES $982M IN WASTE—EDUCATION BUREAUCRATS PANIC Elon’s DOGE just saved taxpayers $982 million by cutting wasteful spending in the Department of Education. A staggering $881 million was axed from 89 bloated contracts, including unnecessary studies on “teaching strategies” and “educational trends.” Another $101 million was saved by eliminating DEI training grants. Trump: “Nobody had any idea it was that bad, that sick, and that corrupt.” Trump signed an executive order directing all federal agencies to work with Elon’s team to root out waste, fraud, and abuse. Meanwhile, D.C. bureaucrats are in full meltdown mode, staging protests to “Save the Civil Service.” But the truth is clear—Trump and Elon are delivering real results, cutting waste, and putting money back where it belongs: with the American people. And this is just the beginning. Source: Daily Mail
@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
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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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Protect yourself with gold today, and get it from Fisher Capital. Go to fisher0mg.com. That's fisher0mg.com. Fisher 0 m g Com. Nate Johnson reveals that people inside the Treasury Department are resisting the efforts of Doge, and now they are refusing to quit digging in their heels.
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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And now you can save 50% just by using code o m g at checkout. Nate Johnson says that the US Treasury colleagues worried about last Friday, February due to fear of being fired by Doge. Johnson also expresses that Doge should not have access to the Treasury Department, he says, due to, quote, risks to national security.
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.
@its_The_Dr - Johnny Midnight ⚡️
CNN claims that DOGE hasn't produced any examples of waste, fraud, and abuse. @RepBrianMast *DESTROYS* this false media talking point ! https://t.co/yP7zYEVJSv
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Here's the latest edition of wasteful spending courtesy of USAID. Over $849,000 is going to a transgender job fair in Bangladesh, where the median monthly income is around $220. Nearly $2,000,000 will fund sex change surgeries in Guatemala, provided by a trans-led organization.
Millions more are allocated to various global initiatives, including $55,000,000 to strengthen Libyan financial processes, $20,000,000 for an Iraq Sesame Street program, and smaller amounts for similar programs in Bangladesh and Nigeria. We're also spending $22,000,000 to boost tourism in Tunisia and Egypt.
Additionally, funds are directed towards climate change initiatives in Africa ($520,000,000), green transportation in Georgia ($24,400,000), and LGBTQ+ support in various countries like Uganda ($5,500,000) and North Macedonia ($1,300,000). Even China is getting $5,000,000 to reduce carbon emissions. This is just the latest list of wasteful spending. Time for change.
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Speaker 0: Hey, everybody. Chairman Brian Mast House, Foreign Affairs Committee. Got another edition of wasteful spending from, you guessed it, USAID. Let's get into the numbers. $849,000 plus for a transgender job fair in Bangladesh, where the median monthly income is about $220 a month.
Nearly $2,000,000 for sex change surgeries in Guatemala by a trans led organization. $55,000,000 to strengthen Libyan public financial management processes. 31 and a half million dollars to help USAID employees with counseling, organizational resilience, wellness, and work life balance. That's a lot of money for work life balance there. $20,000,000 to create a Sesame Street program in Iraq.
Four Point One Million Dollars to create a Bangladesh Sesame Street program. Another $5,200,000 to create a Nigerian Sesame Street pilot program. A lot of money going to these little puppet muppets, in these foreign countries. $3,900,000 to teach essential life skills through Bangladeshi muppets. More muppets.
$22,000,000 to increase tourism in Tunisia and Egypt. Man, we want to spend a lot of money on their tourism. We should be spending that on American tourism, maybe. $520,000,000 to pay ESG consultants to teach people in Africa about countering climate change $24,400,000 to build green transportation alternatives in the country of Georgia. Twenty nine million dollars to diversify crop agriculture in the country of Georgia.
Four Point Five Million Dollars to teach individuals in Kazakhstan how to fight back against internet trolls. $1,300,000 to create a comfortable environment for LGBTQ people in North Macedonia. 4 Hundred And 20 Thousand Dollars to build solar panels in Djibouti. Eighteen Thousand Seven Hundred And Ninety Three Dollars to help LGBTQ individuals vote in the twenty twenty one Honduras elections. Five million dollars to reduce carbon emissions in China.
Yeah. We're giving China Five Million Dollars there. $5,500,000 to improve the lives of LGBTQ individuals in Uganda. Dollars Twenty Three Thousand to host DEI recruitment seminars in San Martin and in Lima, Peru. Dollars 60 5 Million 7 Hundred Thousand for vasectomies in The Congo.
I don't even like that word. $595,000 to empower Uganda's LGBT community to push back against anti LGBTQ legislation. $4,300,000 to provide services for men who have sex with men in South Africa. I have no idea why they wrote it that way. $15,000,000 to identify and enhance the leadership of LGBTQ leaders in Cambodia.
We're resurrecting leaders there for millions of dollars. 1 hundred thousand dollars to conduct a DEI survey in Ghana. Fifty Thousand Dollars to create a DEI fellowship in Uzbekistan. Thirty Thousand Dollars for DEIA facilitated conversations in Senegal. There is a new list of all of the ways that USAID is wasting your money on top of all of the old ones that we gave you already.
Time for change, everybody. The change is coming.
@america - America
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on @DOGE’s Audit of the IRS: “We are talking about performing a basic anti-fraud review to ensure that people are not engaging in large scale theft of federal taxpayer benefits.” https://t.co/cD3nYOAUPh
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I want to assure taxpayers that we are not randomly sifting through their private records. We're performing a basic anti-fraud review to prevent large-scale theft of federal taxpayer benefits, such as billions in child tax credits paid to illegal aliens.
The IRS has been weaponized against the American people for years through politically based audits and leaks of taxpayer information. We are restoring neutrality, ethics, and security controls at the IRS. A major project involves upgrading IT systems to protect taxpayer information from theft by criminals or foreign governments.
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Speaker 0: Can you give assurances to people who faithfully pay their taxes in this country? The doses are just going to go randomly sifting through the records and maybe come across the personal private records of a lot of Americans.
Speaker 1: I can give absolutely a % insurance. I give you complete and total assurance on that point. We are talking about performing a basic anti fraud review to ensure that people are not engaging in large scale theft of federal taxpayer benefits. I mean, for example, we pay billions of dollars a year in child tax credit payments to illegal aliens, billions with a b. So these are systematic programmatic reforms that we're talking about here.
And as far as protecting the secret the secrecy of tax records, the IRS has been weaponized at the career level against the American people for years now. This has been one of the most invasive arms of the federal government, engaging in capricious and politically based audits, leaking taxpayer information for political reasons. We are restoring the neutrality. We are restoring ethics. We are restoring security controls at IRS.
In fact, one of the big projects that DOSIA is gonna be working on is upgrading IT systems and software so that our taxpayer information cannot be stolen by criminals or foreign governments.
@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.
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I watched Kevin Hassett discuss how federal income tax could potentially be replaced with tariff revenue, especially in light of DOGE cuts. Meanwhile, Stephen M. addressed left-wing media's DOGE criticisms, highlighting their neglect of Biden's mental competence. Kaitlan Collins faced pushback too.
@ConradsonJordan - Jordan Conradson🇺🇸
WATCH: National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told me federal income tax could "absolutely" be replaced with tariff revenue amid DOGE cuts White House Deputy Chief of Staff @StephenM schooled the left wing media over DOGE attacks and their failure to cover how Joe Biden is “mentally incompetent and was not running the country.” Ft. @kaitlancollins getting shut down 😂
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I had two questions regarding tariff revenue and the IRS. President Trump discussed replacing income tax with tariff revenue to combat waste, fraud, and abuse. The China tariff revenue, estimated between $500 billion and a trillion dollars over ten years, should facilitate the passage of a Republican bill.
I also asked about comments regarding cutting $50 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse by unelected bureaucrats. The narrative from the president's critics is that Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat. Is one of Doge's objectives to get rid of the federal bureaucracy?
The executive power is vested in the president. The existential threat to democracy is the unelected bureaucracy. President Trump is removing federal bureaucrats who defy democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people.
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Speaker 0: I follow-up. In 2017, then Jordan and Trump
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 0: I just wanted leave you because you had two questions. Can
Speaker 1: you please go ahead?
Speaker 0: Mister mister you were speaking about tariff revenue and you also addressed a question about the IRS. President Trump has spoken about replacing income tax with tariff revenue, especially with all this waste, fraud, and abuse that we're seeing cut. Is that a possibility?
Speaker 1: Absolutely. And in fact, if you think about the China tariff revenue that we're estimating is coming in from the 10% that we just added plus the de minimis thing that it's between $500,000,000,000 and a trillion dollars over ten years is our estimate. And that's something that is outside of the reductions that markets are seeing through the negotiations up on the hill. And so we expect that the tariff revenue is actually gonna make it much easier for Republicans to pass a bill and that was the president's plan all along.
Speaker 0: And then I have a question for Steven Miller about Doge. So you you spoke about Doge. You said roughly $50,000,000,000 is set to be cut in a year of waste, fraud, and abuse by unelected bureaucrats. We're hearing this ironic narrative from the president's critics and the left wing media that Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat and he's doing all this terrible stuff, isn't one of Doge's objectives to get get rid of the federal bureaucracy, the the deep state? And also, who was running the White House when Joe Biden was in office?
Because I don't know a single person who believes it was Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: You're you're tempting me to say some very, harsh things about some of our media friends. The yes. It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country. It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation. Right? Judges are appointed. Members of congress are elected at the district or state level, just one man.
And the constitution article two has a clause known as the vesting clause, and it says the executive power shall be vested in a president, singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government. The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for. So Americans vote for radical FBI reform, and FBI agents say they don't wanna change.
Or Americans vote for radical reform under energy policies, but EPA bureaucrats say they don't wanna change. Or Americans vote to end DEI, racist DEI policies, and lawyers at the Department of Justice say they don't want to change. What president Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people.
Speaker 1: Thank
Speaker 2: you. Thanks,
Speaker 0: Steve. I'm glad you're Thank you.
@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
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Speaker 3: Say something.
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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?
@EndWokeness - End Wokeness
This is a must watch. Trump lists off a bunch of insane scams that US taxpayers were funding before DOGE: https://t.co/8CfrKboiQl
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Here's a glimpse at some wasteful spending I've uncovered. We're talking $22 billion from HHS for housing and cars for illegal immigrants, and $45 million for diversity scholarships in Burma. Millions more are going towards initiatives like sedentary migrant inclusion, LGBTQI+ promotion in Lesotho, and indigenous empowerment in Central America.
I've also found $8 million allocated to making mice transgender, $32 million for a left-wing propaganda effort in Moldova, and $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique. There's nearly $2 billion tied to a decarbonization committee, plus millions more for fish monitoring, voter confidence in Liberia, and illegal alien hotel rooms in NYC.
Other questionable expenditures include vegan climate action in Zambia, social change in Uganda, public procurement in Serbia, learning outcomes in Asia, and a record-breaking $101 million in DEI contracts at the Department of Education.
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Speaker 0: Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified. $22,000,000,000 from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens. $45,000,000 for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma. Forty Million Dollars to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is.
$8,000,000 to promote LGBTQI plus in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of. $60,000,000 for indigenous peoples and Afro Colombian empowerment in Central America. 60 Million Dollars. 8 Million Dollars for making mice transgender. This is real.
$32,000,000 for a left wing propaganda operation in Moldova. Ten Million Dollars for male circumcision in Mozambique, Twenty Million Dollars for the Arab Sesame Street in The Middle East. It's a program. $20,000,000 for a program. $1,900,000,000 to recently created decarbonization of homes committee headed up, and we know she's involved.
Just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her? A $3,500,000 consulting contract for lavish fish monitoring. $1,500,000 for voter confidence in Liberia. Fourteen Million Dollars for social cohesion in Mali.
Fifty Nine Million Dollars for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City. He's a real estate developer. He's done very well. $250,000 to increase vegan local climate action innovation in Zambia. Two Million for social and behavior change in Uganda.
Fourteen Million Dollars for improving public procurement in Serbia. Forty Seven Million Dollars for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing very well with learning. You know what we're doing. We should use it ourselves.
And $101,000,000 for DEI contracts at the Department of Education. The most ever paid, nothing even like it. Under the Trump administration, all of these scams, and they are far worse, but I didn't think it was appropriate to talk about
@WesternLensman - Western Lensman
🚨Sen Joni Ernst gets booed after she announces that DOGE has saved American taxpayers $115 billion since January. Keep it up, Democrats. You’re doing just great. https://t.co/Pflpt310Ad
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Since January, Doge has saved $115 billion. This amounts to $714 per taxpayer.
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Speaker 0: Iowa. Mister president, since January, Doge has saved $115,000,000,000. That's that's amounts to Order. Please. That amounts to $714 per taxpayer.
@RWTNews - 🇺🇸🇺🇸Red White and True News🇺🇸🇺🇸
President Trump speaks to Laura Ingraham more about the lawfare and in particular the lawfare against DOGE. https://t.co/ScBFwguTkc
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President Trump stated that a judge from a "very liberal state" ruled against his administration's efforts to shut down USAID, despite the fraud and waste they allegedly uncovered. He guaranteed an appeal, claiming "rogue judges" are harming the country.
Trump said tariffs will generate significant revenue, and he doesn't profit from initiatives like "The Trump card." He highlighted car companies building plants in the U.S. instead of Mexico. He believes the judge in the USAID case is a "grandstander" ignoring potential scams within the agency.
Regarding Tesla fires, Trump considers them potential "domestic political terrorism" against Elon Musk, whom he now knows and who supported him. He suggested those responsible are likely paid by the political left.
Trump claimed he instructed Elon Musk to retrieve astronauts stranded in space, blaming Biden for their extended stay. He praised Musk's genius and linked criticism of Musk to hatred of the U.S. He stated the astronauts will visit the Oval Office after recovering from their time in space.
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Speaker 0: Now more of my interview with president Trump. Moving on to Doge, judge Theodore Chuang is a federal district court judge in Maryland, has ruled against the Trump administration's efforts, mister president, to shut down USAID, ordering the government, on an accelerated basis to basically reinstate the agency's statutory functions. Your reaction to this development?
Speaker 1: Look at the fraud that we've caught. We've caught so much fraud, so much waste, so many employees that never showed up to work, and we have a judge from a very liberal state who ruled like that. So bad for our country.
Speaker 0: So I guess they closed the department. They're gonna have to reopen the department.
Speaker 1: It, I guess. Not I guess. I guarantee you. We will be appealing it. We have rogue judges that are destroying our country.
Speaker 0: Well, do you believe that at this point, given the totality of these lawsuits, it's a cavalcade of lawsuits, that your administration could be further hampered, your agenda could be slowed down. They're throwing monkey wrenches at you with these judicial rulings.
Speaker 1: Well, we have to go through an appellate process. That takes a long time. We have a judge that
Speaker 0: Do you have time?
Speaker 1: We have a judge. That's the point. We have time. We're gonna be making a lot of money because of tariffs. The good news is we've got it on we're going to very soon be on an even keel.
We're gonna be taking in a lot of money, The Trump card, the gold card, whatever they wanna call it, it's okay with me. Whatever's gonna sell better is fine with me. It'd be nice to get a piece, but I don't get a piece. Okay? I get nothing out of it.
All I do is wanna make this country successful again. We're taking in tremendous amounts of money. We have car companies that are building here who, six months ago, we're gonna build in Mexico, massive plants. They're building them in The United States. We have Honda.
It's going to Indiana. We have them opening up in Michigan. It's amazing what's happening.
Speaker 0: But judges for federal judges, district court judges, to order a sitting president to reinstate fired employees that you're the chief executive officer of The United States. You you order that these were agencies
Speaker 1: to be reviewed. Employees, many of whom didn't even report to work, many of whom were scamming this country. And you you see the same thing. Could read them off, and I did during various speeches. I read off deal after deal after deal, all big scams.
And we have a guy that wants to make a name for himself. You know, in many cases, they're just grandstanders. They wanna make a name for themselves. So we'll appeal it, and hopefully, we will meet with reasonable appeals. You know, I've won great cases on appeals.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Well, some of the maybe people weren't fired. Maybe they were temporarily put on suspended. So we'll see how this plays out, but he's very unhappy with what happened at USAID.
Speaker 1: Well, he shouldn't be. You know what he should do? He should really look at where the money went. They don't ever do wanna do that. You know, the Democrats always talk about, oh, our constitution's been violent.
The one thing they never talk about is where did these billions of dollars go? They never wanna look because when you see where the money went and the scams, it's you don't even have to see anything. Just look at the heading and the scam that they've created, and a judge like him will never look at that. They'll just say, oh, you wanna it sounds so nice. USAID.
Isn't it beautiful? But it's a whole big scam, Laura. And a judge like that is so bad for our country.
Speaker 0: Well, it'd be interesting to see whether you're able to shrink the size of this government. Every Republican president has claimed a desire to. Even Obama said we have to find waste, fraud, and abuse, but you're doing it the judges are trying to stop you.
Speaker 1: We're it. By the way, we're doing it at levels never seen before.
Speaker 0: Lunatics are setting fire to Teslas all across the country. Another horrible incident happened in Las Vegas last night. The FBI is on the scene investigating, and there is an ongoing investigation being led by Pam Bondi. In in in what you've seen so far, do you consider what's happening an act of domestic political terrorism against one of your allies?
Speaker 1: So Elon is a patriot. And, again, I I hardly knew Elon until the, you know, election. And he turned out that he liked me better than he liked these radical lunatics that were in it, better than Kamala, better than Joe, you know, because he's an intelligent person. He like and he backed me, and he went, and he got very much involved. He thought he actually would go around saying if Trump doesn't win, our country is over.
Speaker 0: But do you consider this an act of domestic terrorism?
Speaker 1: I think I think so. Why? I think that if and when they catch the people, and I hope they do, the good thing is they have a lot of cameras in those places, and they've caught some already having to do with that. I think that you will find out that they're paid by people that are very highly political on the left.
Speaker 0: Meanwhile, it's because of Elon Musk. Everything he did with SpaceX that those astronauts, stranded for nine months, they're finally coming home. Mister president, your reaction to what's unfolding.
Speaker 1: So when I came in office, I said, Elon, we gotta get them out. Do you have a rocket ship handy? How many people have a rocket? And Biden left them up. He abandoned them.
You know, we could have done this sooner, but Biden didn't want to because he was embarrassed by what happened. So they were up there. They were supposed to be there for a few days. They were there for many months. And now they're coming back.
But think of it. Elon's able to do that with his genius, and you have people that hate it. And I really believe these are people that hate our country. It's a big problem. But, you know, they don't there aren't so many of them.
There are many more that love our country, and they love our country now more than they have maybe ever in their lives. There's never been a movement like MAGA, like America First, call it, whatever you wanna call it. This is the greatest movement in the history of politics.
Speaker 0: What's the next stop for the astronauts? Are they gonna be coming to the White House?
Speaker 1: No. They're gonna number one, they have to get better. You know, when you're up there and you have no no pull in your muscle, you have no gravity, you can lift a thousand pounds like this. They have to get they have to get better. It's gonna be a little bit tough for them.
It's not easy. You know, they're up a long time. And when they do, they'll come to the Oval Office.
Speaker 0: We have a Fox News alert. President
@thatsKAIZEN - Kaizen D. Asiedu
DOGE just confirmed what many suspected - there’s a tremendous amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in our government. Including voter fraud, using illegal immigrants, under Biden. https://t.co/7dRAypSX1j
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Doge's revelations allegedly expose significant waste, fraud, and abuse within the US government. Antonio Gracias claims the Biden administration's policies link illegal immigration, voter fraud, and Social Security. He alleges a surge in Social Security numbers being issued to non-citizens, facilitated by administrative offenses at the border and a system that defaults to "max inclusion" for benefits.
Concerns are raised about non-citizens registering and voting, potentially impacting elections. The Heritage Foundation estimates a net fiscal deficit of $14-15,000 per unlawful immigrant household annually.
Doge's findings also highlight government waste, including the NIH's 700 disparate IT systems and a billion-dollar 10-question survey. There are twice as many active government credit cards as employees, and archaic systems hinder efficiency. $4.7 trillion in government spending is reportedly untraceable due to optional rationale fields.
Elon Musk claims that cutting waste, fraud, and abuse could improve government benefits. He alleges Social Security fraud is preventing legitimate recipients from receiving benefits. Doge aims to cut a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse and improve government services. The speaker emphasizes the need for technological solutions and accountability to address the national debt crisis.
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Speaker 0: The last few days of revelation from Doge have given us extremely specific details that confirm what many of us have suspected for a while now. The US government is full of waste, fraud, and abuse. So first, let's talk about the fraud. Today, Antonio Gracias, a self made billionaire and friend of Elon Musk, walked us through exactly how under the Biden administration, illegal immigration, voter fraud, and Social Security are linked. I want you to watch this.
Speaker 1: We started at the top of the system mapping the whole system of Social Security to understand where all the fraud was, and there's a lot of great people there that showed us really a lot of waste. And so that came with a big list of stuff they're working on. You've heard some of already. But this is what jumped out at us. When we saw these numbers, we're like, what is this?
In '21, you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2,100,000 in '24. These are noncitizens that are getting Social Security numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This this is a mind blowing chart.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Just this this literally blew us away. Like, we went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident. This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you're illegal, there's a couple ways to come in. You come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them you're afraid.
You'll get they'll give you an asylum asylum case. Get an interview, then you get in. That's one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border. Literally, this happened.
I talked to border patrol myself. Elon was there too. I went to Laredo, and I went to Brownsville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to a board patrol officer, and you tell them you wanna come in.
They have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under $13.25, or they can make an administrative offense, like a parking ticket, basically. They were told to do that, make an administrative offense on the last administration. And you go walk across the border, they do what's called a release of your own recognizance, and they give you an NTA, a notice to appear, which to appear to judge. The wait times on judges are like average six years.
Look at Guroc, you'll see it on immigration judges. There's only 700 of them. This is 5,500,000 people. Okay? So what happens then?
Once you're in the country and you've got asylum through one of these pathways, we map the whole thing out, you can apply for a work document. You file a seven six five. It's the work form. You get this form called the seven six six. That's the authorization.
And then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number. No interview. No ID.
Speaker 2: This is worth, like, just reiterating. It it it's not that it's not people sometimes think that under the Biden administration that that he was simply asleep at the switch. He wasn't asleep. They weren't asleep at the switch. It it it was a massive large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of The United States and disenfranchise the the American people and make it a permanent, deep blue, one party state from which there would be no escape.
Speaker 1: Look. If I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true.
The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people and minimum collection. That's what's happening. We found 1,300,000 of them already on Medicaid as an example. We've gone through On every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5,500,000 people, in those benefit programs. And then what was really, really disturbing us was why.
We're asking ourselves why. And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records, and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.
Speaker 2: And who did vote?
Speaker 1: And and we found some by sampling that actually did vote, and we have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Okay. So what does this mean? Let's break down exactly what we were just told. Step one. So you notice that spike on the chart that Antonio had up?
That shows that the Biden administration allowed people to enter the country illegally in increased numbers prior to the twenty twenty four election. Whether it was by design or incompetence is a question, but what is not a question is that there were increased numbers of people entering the country illegally prior to that election. Step two, the administration gave many of those illegal immigrants a light slap on the wrist instead of a misdemeanor or a felony. And, effectively, they got to stay here for years without consequence. And the way this works is that those illegal immigrants, rather than being turned away, which would be the ideal thing, or getting charged with a felony, they essentially just got an administrative offense, which is like a parking ticket, and they would just have to show up at a court hearing that might not happen for a long time, maybe even years, because the court system is so overwhelmed.
It takes years for the case to be heard. And in the meantime, that illegal immigrant gets to just stay in the country. Step three, them a Social Security number so that they can get Medicaid and other benefits using taxpayer money. And here, the rejoinder is often, oh, well, they don't get full benefits, and they pay taxes. Yeah.
Illegal immigrants do pay some taxes. That's a fair point. But it's not as much as they receive in benefits. The Heritage Foundation estimated that the average unlawful immigrant household receives about $25,000 in government benefits and services while only paying about $10,000 in taxes. So that's an annual fiscal deficit of around 14 to $15,000 per household.
So now that these people are in the country, step four, remove voter ID requirements at a state level so that citizenship can't be verified. I live in California. I experienced this directly. In fact, funny story, on election day, I literally tried to show my ID and had it refused. I was like, let let's see.
Maybe this is just like an Internet thing. Like, you know, surely, I can't I literally cannot not show my ID. Nope. That's exactly what happened. I tried to show my ID and had it refused.
And on top of that, we've seen explicit moves to allow noncitizens to vote. In 2021, the New York City Council allowed approximately 800,000 noncitizens, specifically lawful permanent residents, but noncitizens to vote in municipal elections like mayor and city council. They passed a bill that would allow this provided that they had resided in the city for at least thirty days. Now the law never took effect because it was challenged immediately, and it was finally struck down on March twentieth of this year, twenty twenty five. But it shows the Democrats' willingness to extend voting rights to noncitizens.
Imagine if he had been in power. Do you think they might have extended that right even further? It's worth contemplating. And then there's the issue of, well, did some noncitizens and, in fact, illegal immigrants vote in the twenty twenty four election? Because according to Antonio, they found outright evidence of illegal immigrants actually voting in that election.
He found a significant portion of his Social Security numbers that were given to illegal immigrants also were registered in the voter rolls. A step five is illegal immigrants now vote on a smaller scale in states where voter ID isn't required. And how would voter fraud work? Because, look, I think a lot of time people are saying, it's ridiculous. There weren't millions of illegal immigrants voting.
You don't need millions. You don't need a massive amount of voter fraud to swing an election. In the twenty twenty election, two key swing states, Arizona and Georgia, were won by roughly 22,000 votes respectively. That is a tiny amount considering the tens of millions of votes that are cast. So if that had happened at sufficient scale in a few key swing states, step six would have been you just win the election.
And with that power that you have over the executive branch and maybe over the legislative branch, you give citizenship to illegal immigrants so that they can vote on a larger scale. And that's what the Biden administration tried to do in 2021 with The US citizenship act. That act would have given illegal immigrants an eight year path to citizenship. So you allow illegal immigrants into the country. You let them stay here longer than they should because you give them a court date that is gonna be years in the future because the judicial system is overrun.
You give them benefits. They stay here. You give them citizenship. Guess who they're gonna be loyal to? The same people who let them in.
Step eight is now presidential elections are just like California elections, just different shades of blue. And as someone who lives in California and just had to evacuate his home due to the LA fires, I see what happens when your state goes so deep blue that even when disasters happen, you still get to hold on to power. If that sounds conspiratorial to you, so be it. Maybe it's just gross incompetence and a bunch of disconnected events. But here's the thing.
Extreme incompetence is indistinguishable from genuine malevolence. And even if you dispute that all of this was planned intentionally, what can't be disputed is that all of this was happening simultaneously. So intentional or not, it is an attack vector that needs to be closed. And anyone who exploited that attack vector at any scale needs to go to prison because it's treason. That's the biggest fraud bombshell.
But I mentioned fraud, waste, and abuse. So now let's talk about the waste and the abuse. Because Thursday, Elon and the Doge team did an interview, and they detailed some of the most insane findings from Doge's efforts so far. Here's a compilation of some of the wildest findings. The NIH has nearly 700 different IT systems.
Most of them don't talk to each other.
Speaker 3: There's 700 different IT systems today at NIH.
Speaker 4: Seven hundred different IT systems.
Speaker 3: IT software systems.
Speaker 2: They don't connect.
Speaker 3: They can't speak to
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 4: They say they don't talk to one.
Speaker 3: They have 27 different CIOs. And so when you think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect the data.
Speaker 4: Time out. Time out. You said 27 different chief information officers?
Speaker 3: Correct. Correct.
Speaker 2: Most of them are nontechnical.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot there.
Speaker 2: So what
Speaker 3: saying? There's a lot of opportunity. It will make science better, not worse.
Speaker 2: And when I say that our job is tech support, I really mean it. Yeah. We have to fix the computers. If the computers can't talk to each other, you can't get research done. If the computers can't go stay online, people won't receive their social security.
So what we have here are a bunch of failing computer systems that are preventing people from receiving their benefits, that are preventing people from preventing research from happening, that are, extremely vulnerable to fraud, and we're fixing it.
Speaker 0: Our government spent a billion dollars implementing a 10 question survey.
Speaker 2: Literally, 10 question survey that you could do with SurveyMonkey cost about $10,000, was, the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that. For just the survey? A billion dollars for a for a simple online survey. Do you like the national park? And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey.
So the survey would just go to nothing.
Speaker 0: There are twice as many active credit cards than there are government employees. There's over 5,000,000 government employees and twice as many credit cards. And the process for retiring government employees literally involves processing files in an underground mine. Like, that's how archaic our systems are. And that means that even if you're genuinely trying to lay off many government employees quickly so that you can improve government efficiency, you can only do that at a rate of about 10,000 employees a month due to, I kid you not, limitations on how slow the elevator is that goes up and down into this mine.
Crazy. This is on top of earlier findings like finding out that $4,700,000,000,000 of government spending over the last several years that the treasury department has issued is untraceable. We don't even know how that money was spent or why it was spent. Because the field where government's employees are supposed to mark how that money was spent was optional instead of being mandatory. Many of you have either worked in corporate life or maybe you're you still work in the corporate world.
I used to be in the corporate world. There was no situation where I was allowed to spend the company's money without it having explicitly detailed rationale in a modern digital system where I could be held accountable. So just think about this from first principles. If the government doesn't have accountability because, first of all, even the president can't fire the majority of government's employees. They have a ton of civil service protections that protects their jobs.
Having a government job is one of the most secure jobs you can have in the world, which is great for the employees, but for the people who are paying those employees who, functionally, we are the boss, not only do we not have transparency, we don't have levers of accountability. Because even if things and funds are mismanaged, what can we actually do about it? I mean, the elected representatives are barely accountable to us. What about the unelected public servants? So do I think that majority of government's employees are corrupt?
Absolutely not. There's definitely some bad apples, but I think a lot of them are just caught in a system that is not accountable. It's not incentivized to be effective. It's not incentivized to be efficient, and it's just not serving the American people. So it's basically like a company that has been running a multitrillion dollar debt for years, but the company can never shut down.
There's never any accountability. It's madness. So what's a high level takeaway here? Right now, we will focus on the government fraud, waste, and abuse. The thesis is that there's enough of that for Doge to be able to reduce government spending by a trillion dollars.
Democrats are complaining that this means removing tons of benefits and services that Americans rely on, but it is obvious that there's tremendous amounts of waste in the government. And in fact, as a result, Elon has made the opposite claim, that we can cut a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse and actually make government benefits and services better. For example, I want you to see what he just said about Social Security fraud stopping people from currently receiving their Social Security benefits. Check this out.
Speaker 2: And and they they steal people's Social Security is what happens. Is they they call in, they say, they claim to be a retiree, then they they and they convince the post the social security person on the phone to change the where the where the money is flowing. It it actually goes to some fraudster. This is happening all day every day. And and then and then somebody doesn't receive their Social Security.
It's because of of all the the fraud loopholes in the Social Security system.
Speaker 4: How do you reassure people that what you all are doing is not gonna affect their benefits?
Speaker 2: No. In fact, what what we're doing will help their benefits. Legitimate people, as a result of the work of Doge, will receive more social security, not less. Wanna emphasize that. As a result of the work of Doge, legitimate recipients of social security will receive more money, not less money.
Speaker 4: Alright. I wanna
Speaker 2: emphasize that point and and and and let the record show that I said this, and the it will be proven out to be true.
Speaker 0: There's more than just waste in the government. There's outright fraud. Many people have been victims of identity fraud and have someone who's stolen their Social Security number and identity getting checks that they should be getting. So if we can solve a lot of these problems, we get a better government, not just a smaller one. And don't you guys want a smaller, better government?
And on another note, you know, it's very easy to focus on the federal layoffs. And my heart goes out to any federal government employee who has lost their job. Because on a human level, it doesn't matter what all the abstract conceptual reasons are. Losing your job is a scary thing. It's very scary.
Now I'll note that less than one percent of the people who were laid off did not receive some sort of severance. Many of those packages were eight months severance, which is actually really generous in the corporate world. So these people are not just having the table flipped over and told, okay. Good luck. But it's still a traumatic experience to lose your job, and I totally get why some people are just emotionally distraught over it.
But at the end of the day, the point of the government is not to provide people jobs. The point of the government, among other things, is to create an overall ecosystem where everyone has jobs and their needs met, but not be bigger so that we have more people in government. Like, that's not how we're supposed to be doing this thing. So, yeah, that's what the efficiency effort requires. Like, yes, we do need to be laying people off.
If a hundred people are doing a job that one can do, or if we have 700 different IT systems when we could replace them with five. And on a final note here, you know, before Elon entered the picture, it seemed like everyone agreed that there's a ton of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government. And it reminds me, just like before Trump ran for president the first time, everyone agreed that politicians were corrupt and there's a swamp that needed to be drained. But somewhere along the line, people became so fixated on the people who are solving the problem that they seem to miss the enormity of the problems those people are solving. And another thing that's being revealed here is how much of this problem isn't simply a matter of slashing budgets.
A lot of it is about outdated software and complicated money trails. So what does that actually mean? A lot of this is actually technological, technical, and coding problems, and that's why Doge is so revolutionary. We've had five major efforts to create government efficiency since 02/2001. In fact, there's a great clip from 2011 of Obama announcing a Doge like effort to bring government efficiency headed by your buddy Joe Biden.
So it's no wonder it wasn't so successful. Right? And none of those efforts, none of those five efforts have produced more than $25,000,000,000 of savings. So for all the things that people complain about Doge for, having a bunch of self made billionaires involved and young genius coders involved, those things that they're critiquing are actually Doge's strength. The bureaucrats have not been able to solve this problem for the last twenty five years.
Many of these problems can be solved with just better systems. It's not about cutting some money here and cutting some money there. You need to rearchitect these entire systems. So if Elon, the most successful technologist in the world, surrounded by a bunch of other geniuses who have made billions of dollars by delivering billions of dollars of value and solutions to humanity's problems, like one of the cofounders of Airbnb. He's involved.
If these people can't solve this problem, who can? Joe Biden? AOC? Bernie Sanders? Who who's gonna solve this problem?
Do you trust any of these politicians to solve this problem? So you don't have to like Elon. You don't like to have his approach. You don't like to like the fact that a bunch of 20 year old coders are in the Social Security Administration databases. But if they don't solve the problem, I don't see who else can.
So I hope that detractors of Doge and Elon see this, because a lot of the fears that they have about his influence are vague and general, and they're risks that are worth keeping in mind. It's important to have guardrails around anyone, and I understand the concerns, but a lot of these are vague general concerns that fall away when you realize just how wasteful our government is and know the specifics of how they're wasting our money. And you can do your part to help people who are in fear and talking about vague things like oligarchy and fascism just to focus on specifics and ask them, hey. Are any of these things that Doge has uncovered things that you want your money going toward? Any of these things.
Okay. So you have general fears about the people. Do you have any specific concerns about the specific problems that they've uncovered? And better yet, do you have an alternative? Do you have a different point person you can point to in the world and say, yeah.
They'd be better equipped to solve these problems than Doge. If you don't have a better solution, then stop focusing on the people and start focusing on the bigger problem because we have approaching $37,000,000,000,000 of debt, a consistent $2,000,000,000,000 deficit. We basically have a national credit card that we are running up the balance on, and our interest payments are now over a trillion dollars a year. If we don't get to figure this out, we're gonna be talking about more than layoffs. In fact, we're gonna be talking about more than a recession.
We're gonna be talking about a second great depression. So if we don't have great solutions to that, it's time to stop complaining. So if you're watching this, the best thing that you can do as a citizen is share this info with people who don't know. In a vacuum of information, fear is what thrives.
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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.
