I just saw Stephen Miller laughing at CNN's Brianna Keilar while explaining government workings in a condescending manner. He mentioned that even a brief halt in federal employment is a significant crisis for her and CNN. He emphasized that the American people are witnessing accountability under President Trump. He also challenged her on transparency, asking if she knew where the $22 billion given to illegal aliens by the Department of Health and Human Services under Biden currently is.
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JUST IN: Stephen Miller starts laughing at CNN's Brianna Keilar while explaining to her how the government works as if she's a child.
"I understand that even a temporary interruption in federal employment is a great crisis, a catastrophe for you and for CNN."
"What the American people see is a government that is finally delivering a promise of accountability under President Trump."
"You wanna have a conversation about transparency? Let me ask you a question: Do you have any idea where the $22,000,000,000 that the Department of Health and Human Services provided to illegal aliens under Joe Biden is right now?"
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The President of the United States is in charge of the government. He appoints advisors, like Elon Musk and others at the White House, to execute his commands across federal agencies.
Recently, Elon Musk claimed transparency at Doge, stating their actions are posted on X and their website. Regarding the termination and subsequent rescinding of 300 employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Secretary of Energy would be responsible for those decisions.
Under President Trump, the goal is accountability and transparency in federal spending. For example, where did the $22 billion that the Department of Health and Human Services provided to illegal aliens go? That's enough to provide a free house to every homeless veteran in America.
Speaker 0: Chief of staff for policy. Steven, thank you so much for taking time for us. So who is in charge of DOSH?
Speaker 1: The president of The United States.
Speaker 0: He's the administrator of DOSH?
Speaker 1: No. The Doge is the what was formerly US Digital Services. It's an agency of the federal government that reports into the office of the executive office of the president, which reports to the president of The United States. States.
Speaker 0: Okay.
Speaker 1: The way that article two works is a president wins an election, and then he appoints staff, including myself, including Mike Waltz, including Susie Wiles
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: Including Elon Musk, and those staff report to him.
Speaker 0: Okay. Well aware. So Elon Musk, a week ago, answered a question about transparency at Doge. This is how he spoke about Doge.
Speaker 2: Well, we we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible. In fact, our actions we post our actions to the the Doge handle, on x, and to the the Doge website. So all of our actions are are maximally transparent.
Speaker 0: But you hear him there. We post our actions. All of our actions are maximally transparent. Does Elon Musk know he's not in charge of Doge?
Speaker 1: Again, the president runs the government, then the president appoints advisors including Elon, including myself, including all the other staff here at the White House, and then those staff in turn execute the president's commands and directions to all the agencies of the federal government. This is how democracy works, something that we treasure in America. The whole American people go to the ballot box, they elect the president, the president appoint staff, the staff that administer his orders and directives across the whole US government.
Speaker 0: Okay, Stephen. I get that, but this is important because we wanna talk about who's making the decisions here. There were 300 employees, the National Nuclear Security Administration, you know about this. They were fired. The agency had to rescind those terminations because these were employees who were critical to maintaining the nation's nuclear stockpile.
So then who is it making those decisions of which federal employees are terminated?
Speaker 1: Well, in that case, the secretary of energy would be the one. So what you're describing, with the the cuts in the Department of Energy, those are directed by the senate confirmed Secretary of Energy.
Speaker 0: Okay. So that was the Secretary of Energy's mistake? Secretary of Energy's mistake.
Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't use the term mistake. I would say that it's pretty standard when you're down rehired, who needs to be kept, who needs to be
Speaker 0: That's not what happened here. Devalued and
Speaker 2: devalued all
Speaker 0: of that. They were rescinded. I under These these aren't normal things.
Speaker 1: These are termination. I understand
Speaker 2: that the
Speaker 1: I understand that a that even a temporary interruption in federal employment is a great crisis and catastrophe for you and for CNN. What the American people see is a government that is finally delivering a promise of accountability under president Trump. You wanna have a conversation about transparency. Let me ask you a question. Do you have any idea where the $22,000,000,000 that the Department of Health and Human Services provided to illegal aliens under Joe Biden is right now.
22,000,000,000 with the b. That's enough to provide a free house to every homeless veteran in America. Where's the $22,000,000,000? I don't know. You don't know.
Nobody knows. Joe Biden just spent it, and now it's gone. Transparency begins with having an accounting of where every federal dollar is spent. And God bless president Trump for leading this effort.
Speaker 0: Steven, it seems like the crisis here had to do with the nation's nuclear stockpile and for these particular federal workers, which which I'm not, so this isn't my personal crisis. Military members of
Speaker 2: the guard during the pandemic. Crisis in
Speaker 0: New York City. You about this. Hold on. Well, this I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a crisis, and you don't think it's a crisis. So why are we talking about it?
Speaker 0: Military
