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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know if it's kickbacks.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So what's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:02):
And I've had a great help with Elon Musk, who's
been terrific. Then I'm going to tell him to go
check the Department of Education. Then I'm going to go
to the military.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Let's check the military.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
We're going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars
of fraud and abuse.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Good Monday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to
have you with us. And these 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. What are they fighting? I'll have it
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for you in just a moment. Democrats also trying to
figure out how they are going to fight back against
Donald Trump. And in story number 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 cuts that could save
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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 Update and it
starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
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 team, go find it all.
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Elon Musk and his team have now swept into fifteen agencies,
and this is what we know. 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
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of dramatically smaller federal government. DOGE, which you know stands
for the Department of Government Efficiency, 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
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interviewing numerous federal workers, virtually all 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
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that are working with Doge, They're hoping that they can
get them in trouble or find a 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 that operate at another level when it comes to intellect. Now,
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among those are young people, and the reality is many
on the Democratic Party are 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
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or looking for the waste, fraud and abuse and exposing it.
The way that Elon 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
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you know, before the media can protect or stop the
story from ever 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 if he trusts
Elon Musk, because again, what is the left doing trying
to tell you that Elon Musk and his staff cannot
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be trusted. What did Donald Trump say, Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
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 2 (04:21):
I'm on, you say you trust him?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
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
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fraud and abuse. And you know, the people elected me on.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
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 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 what
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Donald Trump is delivering on, and he's expanding the scope
of where he's looking for all of the government waste, fraud.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And abuse. Now story number two, it is very.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
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
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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
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the word she uses.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
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
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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 (06:38):
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
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so the only recourse we 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, and we have
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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
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they should. The checks and balances are working. What is
not working is the way that the executive is behaving
and the congressional leadership that is failing the American people.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Well, some of these court cases are ongoing.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
So by the way, let's just be clear over what
she just said. She just claimed that the court systems
had stopped Donald try up on every executive order. That
is a lie. And as you could even hear there,
and I'm sure this was hard for them to do.
A 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. You also have to remember who the
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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 Terris as some people that did some things. We
also are finding out that the Democrats are putting different
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extremists out there to try to find out a way
to undermine the president. You noticed 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
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USAID and even the funneling of money to actual Harris.
So what better person have on TV to defend the
program than 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.
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We are seeing executive brands that 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. So now,
what does she say? 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
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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 (09:53):
And lastly, story number three, I have.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
An important list for you today, and is the list
of the likely tax cuts now Donald Trump wants in
the reconciliation bill. What this means for everyday Americans is
real savings for you.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
The plan has become even more ambitious, mainly because of
all the well abuse of your tax dollars that the
Trump administration has 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
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the President up to give more of your money back
to you.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
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
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be happening. The dog's team is working on canceling those
payments now.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
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
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package that a budget watchdog group estimated would actually save
you five to eleven point two trillion over the next decade. 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
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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 of
each item over a ten year period is going to
be huge page for you, the American people. Now, on
that list, at the top of it was one big thing,
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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 one hundred billion to five
hundred 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
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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 benefits from federal taxes would now cost between five
hundred and fifty billion and one point five trillion. That's
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 know that Donald Trump has a new high approval rating,
meaning the American people are paying attention and the American
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people are in favor of exactly what Donald Trump is doing.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
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