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February 14, 2025 14 mins

MUSK Team given Access to 15 FED AGENCIES to Look for Waste, Fraud & Abuse, Ilhan Omar's Superpower Against Trump Administration & the List of Likely Tax Cuts for Americans

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this should have been done by Biden years ago.
This should have never been allowed to happen. I know
he's a friend of yours, He's a friend of CNN.
That's why nobody watches CNN anymore because they have no credibility.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Who else? Yes, you're listening to the forty seven Morning
Update with Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, happy Friday morning, you made it to the weekend.
Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the big stories
we're covering today on the forty seven Morning Update. First up,
Democrats are losing their mind as Elon Musk and his
team have now gained more access to a total of
fifteen government agencies.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
What are they fighting? I'll have it for you in
just a moment.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Democrats also trying to figure out how they are going
to fight back against Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
And in story number.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Two, elam Omar goes on National TV to say that
Donald Trump is in essence a dictator and a tyrant
when he's just been on the job for three weeks.
And finally, we have the list of the likely tax
that could save you and your family a ton of
money that Donald Trump wants in the Reconciliation Bill, will
have those details as well. It's the forty seven Morning

(01:09):
Update and it starts right now.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Story number one.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
If there's one thing that Donald Trump has done that
has really made the left angry, it's the fact that
he's exposing the waste of fraud and the good old
abuse in the United States government. We're also finding out
each and every day just how bad things have gotten.
And now it seems clear that Donald Trump is saying
to Elon Musk and his.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Team, go find it all.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Elon Musk and his team have now swept into fifteen agencies,
and this.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Is what we know.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Staffers and allies of Musk and his service are well
fanning out across Washington in the last week, especially seeking
access to data and disrupting operations in at least fifteen
government agencies in pursuit of dramatically smaller federal government. DOGE,
which you know stands for the Department of Government Efficiency,

(02:04):
has not disclosed the names of its staff members, but
the Washington Post is trying to do a let's out
you list. They've identified now more than thirty people working
for closely with by examining the internal directories. They claim
a multiple agencies and interviewing numerous federal workers, virtually all

(02:24):
of whom spoke on condition of eminemity to fear for quote,
major retaliation. Now, this is when you know that Elon
Musk is getting somewhere in Donald Trump. When you have
this many people inside the government that are trying to
undermine the people that are working with Doge, They're hoping
that they can get them in trouble or find a

(02:45):
way to get them fired. Now, about half of those
identified have ties to Musk or his companies. Why, well,
these are clearly the people that he trusts with his
companies and also people well that operate at another level
when it comes to intellect. Now, among those are young people,
and the reality is many on the Democratic Party are

(03:06):
angry at the fact that many of these people working
for Elon Musk are young in their twenties. Another way
of putting it, it's clear age discrimination. They don't like
the fact that young people are coming in and looking
at ways to cost cut or looking for the waste
fraud and abuse and exposing it the way that Elon

(03:27):
Musk is on X. What's also very interesting about what's
happening now is much of the waste fraud and abuse
is being exposed instantly because Elon Musk will get the information,
then he checks and verifies it, and then he's putting
it out on social media, so that you know, before
the media can protect or stop the story from ever

(03:48):
being written. He's going around the media now. Donald Trump
was asked in an interview during the halftime of the
Super Bowl on Sunday night about if he trusts Elon Musk,
because again, what is the left doing trying to tell
you that Elon Musk and his staff cannot be trusted.
What did Donald Trump say, Take a listen.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I don't know if it's kickbacks or what's going on,
but the people, look, I ran on this, and the
people want me to find it. And I've had a
great help with Elon Musk, who's been terrific.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
I'm on you say you trust him?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Trust Elon. Oh, he's not gaining anything. In fact, I
wonder how he can devote the time to it. He's
so into it. But I told him to do that.
Then I'm going to tell him very soon, like maybe
in twenty four hours, to go check the Department of Education.
He's going to find the same thing. Then I'm going
to go to the military. Let's check the military. We're
going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of

(04:43):
fraud and abuse. And you know, the people elected me on.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
That hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse.
It was very clear the President was saying to you,
the American people, you told me what the mandate was.
You wanted me to cut the size of government. You
wanted me to me make sure that they weren't wasting
your tax dollars. You wanted to make sure that your
money was going to America first policies. That is exactly

(05:09):
what Donald Trump is delivering on, and he's expanding the
scope of where he's looking for all of the government waste,
fraud and abuse.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Now story number two.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
It is very.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Clear Democrats are trying to find their footing and how
they're going to deal with all the successes over the
last three weeks of Donald Trump's agenda. They understand now
that they've got to come up with some plan to
undermine him. The media is obviously on board to help
with that. Alam Omar has come out just days after
Democrats already called for a third impeachment of Donald Trump

(05:42):
from the floor of the House to say that it's
very clear that Donald Trump has decided he will not
abide their claiming by the Constitution. They're now saying he
is a dictator and a tyrant. Well representative. Alam Omar
on Sunday on CBS Facination had a few other things
to say about Donald Trump. This is their game plan
of how they're going to undermine him. Listen carefully to

(06:04):
the word she uses.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
We're joined now by Democratic Congressman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
Good to have you here. You have spoken quite a
bit this week about what USAID meant in your life,
particularly when you were living in a refugee camp for
four years and USAID you talked about helping to keep
you alive. We know this week a federal judge will

(06:27):
come to some kind of hearing and decision perhaps on
what happens to all those government workers. Are the courts
the main line of defense here?

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, I mean, what we are witnessing is a constitutional crisis.
We are seeing an executive branch that has decided that
they are no longer going to abide by the Constitution
in honoring Congress's role in the creation of the agencies,
in their role in deciding where money is allocated. And

(06:57):
so the only week course we have have since our
congressional leadership, the Speaker will not stop the executive is
through the judiciary. And this is you know, when you
think about the checks and balances that we have, the
courts are the only recourse we have at the moment,

(07:18):
and we have seen and when we talk about the
illegality of what the executive is doing, we have seen
every single executive order that has been challenged in the
courts was found to be illegal. And that I think
should give faith to the American people that our courts
are working as they should. The checks and balances are working.

(07:41):
What is not working is the way that the executive
is behaving and the congressional leadership that is failing the
American people.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Well, some of these court cases are ongoing.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
So, by the way, let's just be clear over what
she just said. She just claimed that the court systems
had stopped Donald Trump on every executive order. That is
a and as you could even hear there, and I'm
sure this was hard for them to do at CBS
Face the Nation, they even tried to somewhat correct her
and say, well, these are ongoing He's only been present
for three weeks. How can you make such an egregious claim.

(08:12):
You also have to remember who the Democrats are putting
out on TV. Face The Democratic Party now has become
so radical they decide to put a congresswoman out there
as their faced this week on Face the Nation, a
woman that referred to the nine to eleven terrorists as
some people that did some things. We also are finding
out that the Democrats are putting different extremists out there

(08:35):
to try to find out a way to undermine the president.
You notice, in the beginning of that interview, Margaret Brennan
is talking about we know that USAID meant so much
to you and your life. Why did she say that, Well,
it's very clear they're trying to cover for the abuse, waste,
the fraud coming from USAID and even the funneling of

(08:56):
money to actual terrorists. So what better person on TV
to defend the program then a woman that refers to
the nine to eleven hijackers as some people that did
some things. Now Omar was not done there. She also
went on to say this, I mean, what we're witnessing
is a constitutional crisis. We are seeing executive brands that

(09:17):
has decided they no longer are going to abide by
the Constitution and honoring Congress's role in the creation of
the agencies and their role and in deciding where money
is allocated.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
So, now, what does she say?

Speaker 3 (09:29):
You have a president of the United States of America
that has gone rogue. I think it's pretty clear the
Democrats are now trying anything they can to get their footing,
whether it's impeaching Donald Trump or saying he's a dictator
or a tyrant or someone not abiding by the Constitution,
all because Democrats don't know what to do because there's
so much winning going on in Washington.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
And lastly, story number three, I have.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
An important list for you today and is the list
of the likely tax cuts that now Donald Trump wants
in the Reckon Aciliation Bill. What this means for everyday
Americans is real savings for you. Now the plan has
become even more ambitious, mainly because of all the well
abuse of your tax dollars that the Trump administration has

(10:14):
found in the last three weeks. The Press Secretary Carolin
Levitt came out to explain just one of the abuses
of your tax dollars being used against you, and it
was when the money they found was going to media
outlets including Politico. This is what has spun the President
up to give more of your money back to you.

Speaker 7 (10:33):
So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I
was made aware of the funding from USAID to media
outlets including Politico, who I know has a seat in
this room, and I can confirm that the more than
eight million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing
subscriptions to Politico, the American taxpayer's dying will no longer

(10:54):
be happening. The DOGE team is working on canceling those
payments now.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
So when they find the money and then they decide
to cancel these types of payments, the question many asked was, well,
what's going to happen next? Well, it now is clear
the president saying he wants you to keep more of
your money and stop giving so much of it to
the government. President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are in
deep negotiations and went all weekend long on a tax

(11:20):
package that a budget watchdog group estimated would actually save
you five to eleven point two trillion.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Over the next decade.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Now, if you read the media's explanation of that, they'll
tell you it's going to cost you between five trillion
to eleven point two trillion. No, no, that's how much
the government will not get from you. A series of
tax policy changes that Trump's supports appear to have broad
support among Republicans in Congress. The Committee for a Responsible
Federal Budget has released a study that projects the cost

(11:54):
of each item over a ten year period is going
to be huge for you, the American people. Now on
that list, at the top of it was one big thing,
eliminating taxes on tips. This was a huge promise from
Donald Trump during the campaign, something he said he would
work on as soon as he got into the White House.
It would result in a hundred billion to five hundred

(12:15):
and fifty billion reduction in federal tax revenue, meaning one
hundred to five hundred and fifty billion of taxes that
you wouldn't have to pay to the government. We also
found out exempting overtime pay from federal taxes would also
give two hundred and fifty to three trillion back into
the pockets of American workers. And finally, exempting Social Security

(12:38):
benefits from federal taxes would now cost between five hundred
and fifty billion and one point five trillion. That's how
the government is reporting it to the media as they're
trying to keep more of your dollars. So what does
it really mean. It means that Donald Trump and the
Republicans are wanting you to keep between five hundred and
fifty billion to one point five trillion that you normally

(12:59):
would have paid in taxes. We also have been told
that the present wants to lower taxes for US production
of certain goods that would save you between one hundred
to two hundred billion, and reducing tax benefits for stadium
owners and ending the carried interest loophole. They would also
save the taxpayers one hundred billion dollars. Now, all of

(13:21):
this is being put together in one of the biggest
tax plans we've ever seen. But this is not a
big tax plan that's going to raise your taxes. It's
going to go down in history as one of the
biggest tax cuts in American history. And this is the
reason why Democrats right now are so terrified of Donald
Trump and his success, because three weeks in we also

(13:41):
know that Donald Trump has a new high approval rating,
meaning the American people are paying attention and the American
people are in favor of exactly what Donald Trump is doing.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
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