February 21, 2025 • 13 mins
1. Border Security
- Under Donald Trump's administration, the U.S. border is more secure than ever, with a significant reduction in illegal border crossings.
- Illegal border crossings have decreased by over 90% in February compared to the previous year.
- The Trump administration is actively targeting illegal immigrants, even in sanctuary cities, and using legal measures against those protecting illegal immigrants.
2. Ukraine-Russia War
- Donald Trump is reportedly moving closer to ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
- There is a possibility of Trump meeting face-to-face with Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the conflict.
- Trump believes both Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky want to end the war quickly.
3. Government Layoffs
- The Trump administration has begun mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies to reduce government size and spending.
- The layoffs initially affect probationary employees and recent hires.
- Agencies experiencing layoffs include the Department of Education, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and others.
- The administration aims to enhance government efficiency and reduce spending. These cuts include funding for programs in Mozambique, Cambodia, Serbia, and other countries.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Secure our border, and we're stopping the invasion of our country.
You know, our border right now is more secure than
it's ever been four weeks. Today is our fourth week
end of the week. We've done more than four weeks, well,
certainly than the last administration did in four years. They
actually went to the wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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 up Date.
First up, Donald Trump paying off on a massive promise
from the campaign, putting the US on track to have
the lowest monthly border crossings and more than a quarter
of a century. Also, Donald Trump moves even closer to
(00:40):
ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. There's a very
good chance to'll be meeting face to face with Vladimir
Putin in the coming days. And finally, congratulations, your government's
getting smaller as the Trump administration has begun mass layoffs
across multiple federal agencies. How much money is it going
to save you as a taxpayer. I'll have some of
those figures for you. Coming up. It's the forty seven
(01:00):
Morning Update, and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
When it comes to border security, it's very clear right
now there are two Americas. The border is being secured
before our very eyes, and democratic jurisdictions are now turning
a blind eye to illegal aliens and their activity. The
good news is the Trump administration is still willing to
go and get the illegal immigrants, even in sanctuary cities,
(01:24):
and they're even willing to use the law to go
after those that are protecting illegal immigrants. We also now
have a major update about just how tight the border
has become. In less than a month since Trump got
into the Oval office, illegal border crossings have already hit
a record low after Trump's swift crackdown and could be
(01:45):
on track for levels not seen in sixty years. So
far in February, about three hundred and fifty nine illegal
migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border.
That is down more than ninety percent from February of
last year. With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had their
open border policy on full display, that puts the US
(02:07):
on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in
at least a quarter of a century. If the trend continues,
the number of illegal migrants coming into the US had
had a level not seen since nineteen sixty eight, nearly
sixty years ago. What's even more interesting than that is
how Democrats are doing everything in their power to attack
(02:28):
Donald Trump and the borders are Tom Homan. Tom went
on Fox and Friends and had this to say about
the President's leadership and what it means for the people
in America.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
President's doing a great job. And I want to say this. Look,
I worked for six presidents. I think President Trump's the
greatest president in my lifetime. He proves it every day.
Every day he proves to me why he is the
greatest president in my lifetime. Border numbers are down over
ninety percent in three weeks. Think about that. I worked
tired at it. You know, Christi Nolan's working hard at it.
You know the border, the chief of Trolley's working hard that.
(03:02):
But it was President Trump's executive orders that was a
game changer, right And we already got over six almost
sixteen thousand people we rest in the interior. That's three
times more than Joe Biden had a year. From now,
but it's not enough. We got to do more. But
President thumps leadership. When you when you get ninety percent
less people coming across the border, how many women aren't
being raped by the cartels, how many children aren't drawing?
How many how many women children aren't being sex tracked
(03:24):
in this country. President Trump's a game changer. And every
day I'll I'll say a one hundred times. Every day
he proves to me why he's the greatest president in
my lifetime, with you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Why he's the greatest president of my lifetime. Border numbers
are down over ninety percent in three weeks. It is
incredible when you hear these numbers come from the borders
are now. To be clear, Democrats are not going down
without a fight. They're doing everything they can to undermine
a secure border, and they're doing everything they can to
protect illegal immigrants. The Millusion at Fox said this about
(03:53):
what some Democrats are doing.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Well, Dan, it's hard to believe there are any jurisdictions
out there that wouldn't cooperate with ICE when it comes
to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children. But in
Massachusetts it's just routine. Take a look at this case.
Ice Boston just announcing they arrested this guadmal In illegal
alien charged in Massachusetts with three counts of aggravated child
rape and three counts of forcible rape of a child.
(04:16):
So the question is why was he on the streets
right well, I says their detainer request on him was
ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
The locals released.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Him in in the community on bail without any notice
to ICE. In a statement, the director of ICE Boston says,
in part quote, Jose Fernando Perez has been charged with
some horrific crymes against a minor in our commonwealth. He
is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with
our worst first policy. He posts a significant danger to
the children of Massachusetts and we will not tolerate such
a threat to our community. ICE Boston also announcing the
(04:49):
arrest of this Turkish illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with
a sultant battery against an intellectually disabled person and witness intimidation.
But I says their detainer on him was also ignored
by the sanctuary city of Somerville. He had also been
released into the public elsewhere around the US. I Seattle
arrested this Salvadoran illegal alien wanted in his home country
(05:11):
for aggravated homicide. Here in Los Angeles, ICE arrested this
Guatemalan illegal alien charged with sexual assault and rape with
a gun. And in Colorado, the DEA announced their top
ten arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days, including several
affiliated with Trendya Arragua and others with egregious crimes like kidnapping,
child sexual assault, and fentanyl trafficking and Dana. I was
(05:33):
talking to a law enforcement source in Massachusetts about the
child rape case that I referenced, and I asked, like,
there's got to be some sort of a catch here, right,
forget about cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charge with
so many counts of aggravated forcible child rape even get
released on bail in the first place. The response I
got was, quote, welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It is very clear that these liberal states are willing
to put their own citizens and children at risk just
to say no cure border because it's what Donald Trump
and the American people want now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Story number two.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
President Trump made it very clear when he was running
for president that if he was elected, he was going
to end the senseless war between Russia and Ukraine. Not
only is it counting countless innocent people's lives, but it's
also costing America billions and billions of dollars. There's many
Republican warhawks and Democrats are obsessed with funding this war
(06:25):
and with making sure there's no end in sight. Donald
Trump has other plans, promising that he would end it,
and now we have learned as of Sunday that he
could meet quote very soon with Vladimir Putin face to face,
adding he believes his Russian counterpart genuinely wants to stop
fighting in Ukraine. Quote no time set, but it could
(06:45):
be very soon, Trump told reporters, hours after the Secretary
of State Marco Rubio sought the play down expectations of
upcoming high level talks and ending the war altogether now,
with Rubio said to lead this high level American delegation
the discussions with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia's capital in
the coming days, a flurry of diplomacy was taking place
(07:06):
as the brutal Ukraine War nears its third anniversary. Trump,
addressing reporters after a flat on air Force one, said
his team has been speaking long and hard with Russian officials,
including his Middle East envoy, whom the President said met
with Putin for about three hours recently, saying this, I
think he wants to stop fighting, Trump said of Putin,
(07:28):
ask whether he believes Putin wants to seize the entirety
of Ukraine. Trump said, that was my question to him.
If he's going to go on, that would have caused
me a big problem. Trump added, I think he wants
to end it, and they want to end it fast,
both of them, he said, adding Zelenski wants to end
it two. The Ukrainian president. Zolenski meanwhile said Sunday he
(07:49):
believes Russia's preparing to quote wage war against a week
in NATO should Trump dilute US support for the alliance.
Trump appeared to dismiss Zelensky's remarks, telling reporters that he
was not even a little bit concerned about the Ukrainian
leader's messaging. A President Trump has been very clear, and
he has constantly insisted that he would end the Ukrainian
(08:11):
conflict in a single day if he returned to the
White House. Rubio stressing yes, he believes this could come
to an end at the end of the day, it's
all about the money. And Donald Trump is clearly telegraphing
to Zolensky and Ukraine that the money and the arms
are going to be drawing up very soon, so you
better get your act together.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And lastly, story number three, the.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Trump administration has begun mass layoffs of federal workers and
the left is losing their mind because of a payoff.
Donald Trump said that our government was way too bloated,
and he's now proving his point. The administration beginning the
mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies, a move that is
expected to effect thousands and thousands of employees across the
(08:52):
federal government. Now. The firings initially affected probationary employees, recent
hires who joined the federal workforce within the last lasts
one to two years, depending on the agency, which has
fewer protections for those workers. Now, among the agencies experiencing
layoffs are the Department of Education, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau,
(09:12):
the Office of Personnel Management, the Environmental Protection Agency, the
General Services Administration, and the Small Business Administration. This is
just the beginning.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Of course, the left is freaking out, saying that people
are going to die if Donald Trump continues this way
of doing business. They're now using the tragedy of the
plane crash at Reagan National Airport as their springboard to
fear monger Americans into believing that Donald Trump should fire
no one. Take a listen to this from the Oval Office.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You've offered over two million federal workers the option to
resign immediately.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
There are fifty thousand FAA employees. Does this tragedy give
you reason to reconsider that option of resignations because of
concerns about staffing issues in cret safety.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
If people aren't coming to work, if they're not going
to come into the office and report as for the
date that.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You know what it is. Everybody knows what the date is.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's been very well documented, then they're going to be terminated.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You're going to be You're not concerned though, that if
many people take that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Offer, there could be shortages that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Could be taking They'll be replaced with very competent people.
We have a lot of competent people in this country.
There's one thing you can bet on it is that
the media is never going to let a tragedy go
to waste, including a plane crash, where they're going to
then try to politicize it to attack President Trump. I
love the way that he handled this, saying if people
aren't going to come to work, then they're going to
be terminated and they'll be replaced with competent people. Now,
(10:35):
why is the president doing this right now? Well, the
Trump Administration's initiative is clear. They say it's to reduce
the federal workforce through mass layoffs and restructuring. Aim to
enhance government efficiency and reduce spending significantly. They say by
streamlining operations and focusing on essential positions, the administration anticipates
(10:56):
significant cost savings for tax payers. Deferred Resignation program offers
employees eight months of pay and benefits upon resignation, providing
financial support during their transition. This approach is expected to
foster a more performance driven workforce, something the government knows
nothing about, as well as a culture aligning with the
(11:17):
administration's goals of modernizing our federal operations. At the end
of the day, this is also about saving taxpayers a
significant amount of cash.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
DOJE also came out this last week giving an update
on just how much money they are saving Americans. Here
is a list that Donald Trump tweeted out telling you
where your money was going to be spent, but they
stopped it before it could happen. Ten million dollars for
Mozambique Voluntary Medical Mail Circumcision, nine point seven million for
the US Berkeley to develop a cohort of Cambodian youth
(11:50):
within enterprise driven skills. Two point three million for strengthening
independent voices in Cambodia, thirty two million for the Prague
Civil Society Center, million for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Hub,
fourteen million for improving public procurement in Serbia. How about
four hundred and eighty six million to the Consortium for
(12:12):
Elections and Political Process Strengthening, including twenty two million for
quote inclusive and participationary political process in Moldova and twenty
one million for voter turnout in India. Yeah, none of
that in America. Twenty nine million for strengthening political landscape
in Bangladesh, twenty million for fiscal federalism in Nepal, nineteen
(12:35):
million for biodiversity conservation in Nepal, one point five million
for voter confidence in Liberia, fourteen million for social cohesion
and Mali. Two point five million for inclusive democracies in
South Africa, forty seven million for improving learning outcomes in Asia,
and two million to develop sustainable recycling models to increase
(13:00):
socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in Kosovo, Roma and Egypt.
These are just some of the things that Doge uncovered
in the last five days that have all been cut
by Donald Trump and the federal government. So not only
are we getting rid of employees, we're also getting rid
of government waste.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
Secure our border, and we're stopping the invasion of our country.
You know, our border right now is more secure than
it's ever been four weeks. Today is our fourth week
end of the week. We've done more than four weeks, well,
certainly than the last administration did in four years. They
actually went to the wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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 up Date.
First up, Donald Trump paying off on a massive promise
from the campaign, putting the US on track to have
the lowest monthly border crossings and more than a quarter
of a century. Also, Donald Trump moves even closer to
(00:40):
ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. There's a very
good chance to'll be meeting face to face with Vladimir
Putin in the coming days. And finally, congratulations, your government's
getting smaller as the Trump administration has begun mass layoffs
across multiple federal agencies. How much money is it going
to save you as a taxpayer. I'll have some of
those figures for you. Coming up. It's the forty seven
(01:00):
Morning Update, and it starts right now.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Story number one.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
When it comes to border security, it's very clear right
now there are two Americas. The border is being secured
before our very eyes, and democratic jurisdictions are now turning
a blind eye to illegal aliens and their activity. The
good news is the Trump administration is still willing to
go and get the illegal immigrants, even in sanctuary cities,
(01:24):
and they're even willing to use the law to go
after those that are protecting illegal immigrants. We also now
have a major update about just how tight the border
has become. In less than a month since Trump got
into the Oval office, illegal border crossings have already hit
a record low after Trump's swift crackdown and could be
(01:45):
on track for levels not seen in sixty years. So
far in February, about three hundred and fifty nine illegal
migrants per day have been caught across the entire southern border.
That is down more than ninety percent from February of
last year. With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had their
open border policy on full display, that puts the US
(02:07):
on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in
at least a quarter of a century. If the trend continues,
the number of illegal migrants coming into the US had
had a level not seen since nineteen sixty eight, nearly
sixty years ago. What's even more interesting than that is
how Democrats are doing everything in their power to attack
(02:28):
Donald Trump and the borders are Tom Homan. Tom went
on Fox and Friends and had this to say about
the President's leadership and what it means for the people
in America.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
President's doing a great job. And I want to say this. Look,
I worked for six presidents. I think President Trump's the
greatest president in my lifetime. He proves it every day.
Every day he proves to me why he is the
greatest president in my lifetime. Border numbers are down over
ninety percent in three weeks. Think about that. I worked
tired at it. You know, Christi Nolan's working hard at it.
You know the border, the chief of Trolley's working hard that.
(03:02):
But it was President Trump's executive orders that was a
game changer, right And we already got over six almost
sixteen thousand people we rest in the interior. That's three
times more than Joe Biden had a year. From now,
but it's not enough. We got to do more. But
President thumps leadership. When you when you get ninety percent
less people coming across the border, how many women aren't
being raped by the cartels, how many children aren't drawing?
How many how many women children aren't being sex tracked
(03:24):
in this country. President Trump's a game changer. And every
day I'll I'll say a one hundred times. Every day
he proves to me why he's the greatest president in
my lifetime, with you.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Why he's the greatest president of my lifetime. Border numbers
are down over ninety percent in three weeks. It is
incredible when you hear these numbers come from the borders
are now. To be clear, Democrats are not going down
without a fight. They're doing everything they can to undermine
a secure border, and they're doing everything they can to
protect illegal immigrants. The Millusion at Fox said this about
(03:53):
what some Democrats are doing.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Well, Dan, it's hard to believe there are any jurisdictions
out there that wouldn't cooperate with ICE when it comes
to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children. But in
Massachusetts it's just routine. Take a look at this case.
Ice Boston just announcing they arrested this guadmal In illegal
alien charged in Massachusetts with three counts of aggravated child
rape and three counts of forcible rape of a child.
(04:16):
So the question is why was he on the streets
right well, I says their detainer request on him was
ignored by the Essex County Superior Court due to sanctuary policy.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
The locals released.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Him in in the community on bail without any notice
to ICE. In a statement, the director of ICE Boston says,
in part quote, Jose Fernando Perez has been charged with
some horrific crymes against a minor in our commonwealth. He
is exactly the type of alien we are targeting with
our worst first policy. He posts a significant danger to
the children of Massachusetts and we will not tolerate such
a threat to our community. ICE Boston also announcing the
(04:49):
arrest of this Turkish illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with
a sultant battery against an intellectually disabled person and witness intimidation.
But I says their detainer on him was also ignored
by the sanctuary city of Somerville. He had also been
released into the public elsewhere around the US. I Seattle
arrested this Salvadoran illegal alien wanted in his home country
(05:11):
for aggravated homicide. Here in Los Angeles, ICE arrested this
Guatemalan illegal alien charged with sexual assault and rape with
a gun. And in Colorado, the DEA announced their top
ten arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days, including several
affiliated with Trendya Arragua and others with egregious crimes like kidnapping,
child sexual assault, and fentanyl trafficking and Dana. I was
(05:33):
talking to a law enforcement source in Massachusetts about the
child rape case that I referenced, and I asked, like,
there's got to be some sort of a catch here, right,
forget about cooperating with ICE. How does somebody charge with
so many counts of aggravated forcible child rape even get
released on bail in the first place. The response I
got was, quote, welcome to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It is very clear that these liberal states are willing
to put their own citizens and children at risk just
to say no cure border because it's what Donald Trump
and the American people want now.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Story number two.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
President Trump made it very clear when he was running
for president that if he was elected, he was going
to end the senseless war between Russia and Ukraine. Not
only is it counting countless innocent people's lives, but it's
also costing America billions and billions of dollars. There's many
Republican warhawks and Democrats are obsessed with funding this war
(06:25):
and with making sure there's no end in sight. Donald
Trump has other plans, promising that he would end it,
and now we have learned as of Sunday that he
could meet quote very soon with Vladimir Putin face to face,
adding he believes his Russian counterpart genuinely wants to stop
fighting in Ukraine. Quote no time set, but it could
(06:45):
be very soon, Trump told reporters, hours after the Secretary
of State Marco Rubio sought the play down expectations of
upcoming high level talks and ending the war altogether now,
with Rubio said to lead this high level American delegation
the discussions with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia's capital in
the coming days, a flurry of diplomacy was taking place
(07:06):
as the brutal Ukraine War nears its third anniversary. Trump,
addressing reporters after a flat on air Force one, said
his team has been speaking long and hard with Russian officials,
including his Middle East envoy, whom the President said met
with Putin for about three hours recently, saying this, I
think he wants to stop fighting, Trump said of Putin,
(07:28):
ask whether he believes Putin wants to seize the entirety
of Ukraine. Trump said, that was my question to him.
If he's going to go on, that would have caused
me a big problem. Trump added, I think he wants
to end it, and they want to end it fast,
both of them, he said, adding Zelenski wants to end
it two. The Ukrainian president. Zolenski meanwhile said Sunday he
(07:49):
believes Russia's preparing to quote wage war against a week
in NATO should Trump dilute US support for the alliance.
Trump appeared to dismiss Zelensky's remarks, telling reporters that he
was not even a little bit concerned about the Ukrainian
leader's messaging. A President Trump has been very clear, and
he has constantly insisted that he would end the Ukrainian
(08:11):
conflict in a single day if he returned to the
White House. Rubio stressing yes, he believes this could come
to an end at the end of the day, it's
all about the money. And Donald Trump is clearly telegraphing
to Zolensky and Ukraine that the money and the arms
are going to be drawing up very soon, so you
better get your act together.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And lastly, story number three, the.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Trump administration has begun mass layoffs of federal workers and
the left is losing their mind because of a payoff.
Donald Trump said that our government was way too bloated,
and he's now proving his point. The administration beginning the
mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies, a move that is
expected to effect thousands and thousands of employees across the
(08:52):
federal government. Now. The firings initially affected probationary employees, recent
hires who joined the federal workforce within the last lasts
one to two years, depending on the agency, which has
fewer protections for those workers. Now, among the agencies experiencing
layoffs are the Department of Education, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau,
(09:12):
the Office of Personnel Management, the Environmental Protection Agency, the
General Services Administration, and the Small Business Administration. This is
just the beginning.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Of course, the left is freaking out, saying that people
are going to die if Donald Trump continues this way
of doing business. They're now using the tragedy of the
plane crash at Reagan National Airport as their springboard to
fear monger Americans into believing that Donald Trump should fire
no one. Take a listen to this from the Oval Office.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You've offered over two million federal workers the option to
resign immediately.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
There are fifty thousand FAA employees. Does this tragedy give
you reason to reconsider that option of resignations because of
concerns about staffing issues in cret safety.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
If people aren't coming to work, if they're not going
to come into the office and report as for the
date that.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
You know what it is. Everybody knows what the date is.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's been very well documented, then they're going to be terminated.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You're going to be You're not concerned though, that if
many people take that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Offer, there could be shortages that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Could be taking They'll be replaced with very competent people.
We have a lot of competent people in this country.
There's one thing you can bet on it is that
the media is never going to let a tragedy go
to waste, including a plane crash, where they're going to
then try to politicize it to attack President Trump. I
love the way that he handled this, saying if people
aren't going to come to work, then they're going to
be terminated and they'll be replaced with competent people. Now,
(10:35):
why is the president doing this right now? Well, the
Trump Administration's initiative is clear. They say it's to reduce
the federal workforce through mass layoffs and restructuring. Aim to
enhance government efficiency and reduce spending significantly. They say by
streamlining operations and focusing on essential positions, the administration anticipates
(10:56):
significant cost savings for tax payers. Deferred Resignation program offers
employees eight months of pay and benefits upon resignation, providing
financial support during their transition. This approach is expected to
foster a more performance driven workforce, something the government knows
nothing about, as well as a culture aligning with the
(11:17):
administration's goals of modernizing our federal operations. At the end
of the day, this is also about saving taxpayers a
significant amount of cash.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
DOJE also came out this last week giving an update
on just how much money they are saving Americans. Here
is a list that Donald Trump tweeted out telling you
where your money was going to be spent, but they
stopped it before it could happen. Ten million dollars for
Mozambique Voluntary Medical Mail Circumcision, nine point seven million for
the US Berkeley to develop a cohort of Cambodian youth
(11:50):
within enterprise driven skills. Two point three million for strengthening
independent voices in Cambodia, thirty two million for the Prague
Civil Society Center, million for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Hub,
fourteen million for improving public procurement in Serbia. How about
four hundred and eighty six million to the Consortium for
(12:12):
Elections and Political Process Strengthening, including twenty two million for
quote inclusive and participationary political process in Moldova and twenty
one million for voter turnout in India. Yeah, none of
that in America. Twenty nine million for strengthening political landscape
in Bangladesh, twenty million for fiscal federalism in Nepal, nineteen
(12:35):
million for biodiversity conservation in Nepal, one point five million
for voter confidence in Liberia, fourteen million for social cohesion
and Mali. Two point five million for inclusive democracies in
South Africa, forty seven million for improving learning outcomes in Asia,
and two million to develop sustainable recycling models to increase
(13:00):
socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in Kosovo, Roma and Egypt.
These are just some of the things that Doge uncovered
in the last five days that have all been cut
by Donald Trump and the federal government. So not only
are we getting rid of employees, we're also getting rid
of government waste.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
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