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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I wanted somebody really smart to work with me in
terms of the country, a very important aspect. You write
an executive order, and you think it's done, you send
it out, it doesn't get done, it doesn't get implemented.
They don't implement it. Maybe they're from the last administration. Well, Gary,
mine's a televance.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's more money's in the telebent.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good Wednesday morning, Ben Ferguson, here, it's nice to have
you with us on the forty seven Morning Update, and
here are the big stories we're going to be talking
about today. First up, Donald Trump and Elon Muss sit
down for an interview with Hannity, and boy did they
bring receipts, including some from the Taliban.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'll have that for you in just a second.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Also, DOGE has discovered four point seven trillion dollars of
payments that they cannot trace. Was this done on purpose
to hide where your tax dollars are going? I'll explain
that as well. And finally, the CIA is going after
cartels in Mexico using reaper drones, the same ones we
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use in Iraq and Afghanistan to spy on the cartels.
It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Story number one another day and Donald Trump and his
team at DOGE are finding more of your tax dollars
that are going to, for example, dead people. DOGE is
investigating potential social security fraud. Millions are receiving checks right
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now that are aged over one hundred and thirty years old.
This is the most shocking part of all is It's
been happening for decades and no one stopped it. Elon
Musk putting out a tweet saying, according to Social Security Database,
these are the numbers of people in each age bucket
with a death field set to false. Maybe twilight is
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real and there are a lot of vampires collecting social Security.
You want to know how many people on his list
are over the age of one hundred, Well one hundred
to one hundred and nine. There are four point seven
million apparently eligible for Social Security. It gets worse, oh
one hundred and ten to one hundred and nineteen three
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point six million. Those that are eligible between the ages
of one hundred and twenty to one hundred and twenty
nine three point four million.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh and don't worry, it gets worse.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
From one hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty
nine years old, there are three point nine million people
that are apparently eligible for Social Security. That's not all.
At one hundred and forty to one hundred and forty nine,
there's three point five million. From one hundred and fifty
to one hundred and fifty nine, one point three million.
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And yes, there are even people on the Social Security
rolls that are over the age of three hundred and sixty. Yes,
there's a three hundred and sixty one year old person
on the list. From the age of two hundred to
two hundred and twenty nine, there are more than two
thousand people apparently that are still alive at the age
of two hundred and twenty to two hundred and twenty nine. Now,
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let's just let you digest that for a moment as
I moved to the other big part of the day,
which was Elon Musk and Donald Trump sitting down with
Sean Hannity to talk about all the fraud they're finding.
And here is part of what they said, including your
tax dollars going directly to the Taliban.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Average America makes sixty six thousand dollars a year. Yeah, okay,
we have thirty seven trillion dollars in national debt. Now,
all the money I'm about to mention and what we're
going to scroll on our screen, and all of this
is going to foreign countries. It is not being spent
here in America for better schools, law and order. I
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think the average text being American should be mad as
hell because their text money is being.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm early spent.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
All right, let me go to the second question.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
First. I want to know.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Because people like JOHNI Earnst AND's tried for a long
time and she's actually got a lot of good data.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Center US has been really helpful.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Actually okay, but they they they actually high what the
real purpose of the spending is. In other words, they
and this is a question, how did you decipher it?
Will say humanitarian blah blah blah in Serbia or Afghanistan.
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We even give them money to China for crying out loud,
which I think is nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, the Taliban, what money to the Taliban?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Like a lot?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I mean, just listen to that statement from Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
We gave money to the Taliban, and then Elon Musk
raises his eyebrows and says, like a lot. Can you
imagine being in these meetings and this is what you
are finding now. Donald Trump was asked about Elon Musk
and hey, can Americans have confidence in what he's doing?
Is the Democrats and the media are trying to turn
him into the worst person in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Trump said this about Elon.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I wanted somebody really smart to work with me in
terms of the country, a very important aspect, because I mean,
he doesn't talking about he's actually a very good businessman.
And when he talks about the executive orders, and this
is probably true for all precedents. When you write an
executive order and you think it's done, you send it out,
it doesn't get done, it doesn't get implemented, they don't
implement it. Maybe they're from the last administration, and they
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are in some cases. You try and get them out
as fast as you can. And he would take that
executive order that I'd sign and he would have those
people go to whatever agency it was. When are you
doing it? Get it done? Get it done. And some
guy that maybe didn't want to do it, all of
a sudden he's signing it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Just doesn't want you want to talk about a dream team.
It is very clear that these two men, they genuinely
love working together every day, they love saving money for Americans.
And now they're even talking about giving you a Doge rebate.
That's right, giving your taxes back to you based on
what they can cut. Elon Musk believes there's about a
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trillion dollars and government waste. Wouldn't it be nice to
get a check from Doge. It's something they are working on,
and there's a very good chance it may be coming
to your mailbox in the not too distant future. Next
story number two, Imagine finding four point seven trillion dollars
of treasury payments that are purposely made almost impossible to trace.
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That is exactly what your federal government has now been
caught doing. The Treasury Department had sent out more than
four point seven trillion dollars of payments without an identification
code that links a Treasury payment to a budget line
item that comes from Congress. Doge announcing this today, making
these payments, they said, almost impossible to trace, and clearly
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the government wanted to do this so you would never
be able to ask questions.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Doade said. The identification payment.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Code called TAS for Treasury Access Symbol is now being
required as of the weekend when they found the problem.
Why because they want to increase the oversight into where
your money actually ends up. The Department of Government Efficiency
tweeting this out. The Treasury Access Symbol TASK is an
identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line
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item standard financial process in the federal government. The task
field was optional for four point seven trillion in payments
and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As
of Saturday, this is now being required, increasing the insight
into where your money is actually going. A big thank
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you the US Treasury for the great work that again
coming from the Department of Government Efficiency. Fox News also
reported on the importance of the TAS payment code as well,
saying quote according to the Bureau of Fiscal Service, which
is under the Treasury, task codes are used to describe
any one of the account identification codes assigned by the Treasury,
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and is also referred to as the quote unquote account.
All financial transactions made by the federal government are classified
by these symbols. When reporting the Treasury, and importantly the
Office of Management and Budget. You may know it is
O now the discovery was announced on the same day. Also,
the DOGE appeared to have populated the savings page, which
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as of Monday evening said the total estimated savings since
the establishment of the department has already totaled about fifty
five billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Quote.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Major improvement and Treasury Payment Integrity is going live. Elon
Musk posted on x this is a combined effort of DOGE,
the US Treasury, and the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Nice work by all.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Now, the absence of the code was discovered during a
DOGE audit of the Treasury Department to find wasteful spending,
fraud and abuse. Democrats guess what. They came out in
full opposition to the audit of the Department of Treasury.
The audit, they said on the ground should never have
been allowed to happen. Why because they said that DOGE,
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a department within the federal government, should not have access
to taxpayers sensitive data. Even attorney generals on the left
are now coming out in force. Fourteen states have already
sued to block dogs from accessing the data, alleging executive overreach. Now,
the Treasury Secretary Scott Bassent said this in a statement.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Quote, this is not some roving ban.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
This is being done methodically and is going to yield
big savings for the American taxpayer. If there's anything I
can agree on, it is that Donald Trump and Doge
and Elon Musk are not stopping to find you all
of your wasted tax dollars. And here is story number three.
It's a sad reality. Mexico is an essence a failed state.
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It is being controlled and run by the cartels. They
choose the leaders, and the leaders do what the cartels say. Well,
there's two very interesting reports that are dealing with Mexico
now and our safety from drugs and also human trafficking. Fetanol,
as you know, is one of the biggest killers in
this country. Where we now have confirmation that the CIA
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is flying surveillance drones over the cartels in Mexico. Multiple
outlets are now reporting the CIA is stepping up their
drone flights. The currently unarmed flights are said to be
searching for fetnyl labs that are run by the Mexican cartels,
designated by President Donald Trump as foreign terrorist organizations. One
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US officials saying to The New York Times that the
flights will go well into sovereign Mexico quote unquote. Now,
the flights reportedly began during the Biden administration but were
never really used to stop the flow of the drugs.
Then they were stepped up by the new CIA Director
John Radcliffe after President Trump made the foreign terrorist designation.
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The flights are not authorized. We're being told at this
point to use lethal force. However, CIA officers are gathering
the intelligence data and they're passing it along to those
that may need to see it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Tom Hollman was asked about Mexico in general in an
interview that he did earlier. I want you to hear
what he had to say about the country.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Let me ask you a question. It's against the law
in Mexico to traffic children, but they don't do anything
about it. It's against the law in Mexico to transit
through the country, but they don't do anything about it.
Is the Mexican government, in your opinion anti American?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Look, I agree with you. They don't enforce and they
allow illgo analystm all the world to transit Mexico without
a transit visa, which is against the law. By thinking
President Trump has them where he wants them. They've now
put military on their northern border in our southern border,
they are now participating and beginning to participating and remain
in Mexico. President Trump is demanded they take action, and
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we're monitoringum. President Trump, you know, he's the game changer.
We've been in office less than a month and I
notice in the last twenty four hours total Southwest border
apprehensions two hundred and twenty nine. Now, I started the
border troil in nineteen eighty four. I've never seen those numbers,
at least I don't remember seeing those numbers. We went
from eleven thousand day under Biden to two hundred and
twenty nine. President Trump's already got Mexico where he wants him,
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and he's going to force more on them in their future.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Just quickly, Tom, because I'm up against a break. But
I got to ask you, the cartels are very powerful.
Is the US military use of the US military on
the table to hit cartel targets in Mexico.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
That's something we're working on now. By I can tell
you that President Trung's made if Mexican cartels will put
a death right against borbit relagients or a military if
they harm a Borba in the military. President Trump will
wipe them off the face of the earth.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
There it is working on.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Striking cartels in Mexico is a real possibility now. President
Trump declared those cartels foreign terrorist organizations on his first
day in office, and now borders are home and is
saying they're active discussions about US military strikes on terrorist
targets in Mexico. This is we're being told that the
Reaper drones are already working on full time surveillance. Quote
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from CNN, the CIA is flying the mq DASH nine
Reaper drones. The drones are equipped to deliver lethal payloads,
but are not currently armed. The mq DASH nine drones
used for the mission are not armed, but they can
be equipped with payloads to carry out precision strikes. The
US regularly uses them to target suspect Terris and Syria,
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Iraq and Somalia. Well, go back to the very first
statement that I said earlier. Donald Trump has already said
that these cartels are in fact foreign terrorists organization.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
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