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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of The Clay and Buck Show

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Speaker 1: kicks off right now, also known as The Clay Travison

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show, but easier to say to the short one.

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Speaker 1: And we've got a lot to talk to you about today,

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Speaker 1: So brevity was he let's dive into it. Senate Finance

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Speaker 1: Committee has advanced RFK Junior's nomination. Looking pretty good for

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Speaker 1: HHS Secretary Chelsea Gabbard, also looking good cash, but tell

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Speaker 1: looking good. Trump's team coming together beautifully, and Elon is

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Speaker 1: going full Twitter on the Feds. And by that I

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Speaker 1: mean remember when he cut eighty percent of Twitter's staff

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Speaker 1: and everyone said, who's going to turn on the computers?

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Speaker 1: And now Twitter is more important and functions better than

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Speaker 1: it ever had before. Elon is taking that same mindset

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Speaker 1: at least and going after the federal government. There's an

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Speaker 1: incredible piece today in the New York Times. It's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be a hit piece, I think on Elon and

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Speaker 1: just how off the rails he and his team of

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Speaker 1: twenty somethings, one of them is nineteen years old. Elon

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Speaker 1: has essentially grabbed a bunch of one forty iq twenty

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Speaker 1: somethings to sleep on cots in the Office of Personnel

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Speaker 1: Management in DC, to work in offices at the old

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Speaker 1: Executive Office building, all with Trump's stamp of approval and

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Speaker 1: blessing to just go get it done, do the mission.

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Speaker 1: They've gotten access to the Treasury Department's payment system, They've

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Speaker 1: gotten access inside of OPM, which is the HR for

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Speaker 1: all of federal government employees. They have shut down the

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Speaker 1: US Aid office in DC, and all of this is

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Speaker 1: going on. You know what Elon says Clay about the

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Speaker 1: count of fraud that he thinks is happening with the

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Speaker 1: federal government every year, meaning the amount of money that

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Speaker 1: the federal government is paying that it should not pay,

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Speaker 1: that is fraud he's estimating. And remember he has super

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Speaker 1: user access everybody, you know he's he can see it.

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Speaker 1: He thinks, Clay, we are at seven hundred billion dollars

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Speaker 1: of fraud. Now, for those of us who've been screaming

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Speaker 1: and pounding the table for a long time now, certainly

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Speaker 1: over a decade. You know, the the estimate for Medicare

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Speaker 1: fraud alone is sixty to eighty billion dollars. So once

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Speaker 1: you start to piece and patch all these things together,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it's crazy at all to have

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Speaker 1: that number. Although that number is jaw dropping, right, it

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Speaker 1: seems like this is very possible. Clay Elon has been unleashed.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to the AOC thing at a second, but

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Speaker 1: I think people seeing these numbers, it's it's pretty staggering,

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Speaker 1: and it's also really encouraging that someone's finally doing something

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Speaker 1: about this. Well that's the thing, right, that we're finally

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Speaker 1: getting to it. Let me just kind of put this

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Speaker 1: context out there for you. Democrats are in a position

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Speaker 1: now where they are arguing we need remember this was

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Speaker 1: their huge argument a couple of years ago, we need

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Speaker 1: eighty seven thousand new IRS agents to catch all the

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Speaker 1: tax cheats out there, you me, all of you out

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Speaker 1: there listening. The half of Americans remember, it's only half

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Speaker 1: the half of Americans that actually pay federal income tax

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Speaker 1: This is a staggering stat that I should be talked

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Speaker 1: about more. Only half of Americans pay federal income taxes.

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Speaker 1: That's something other than payroll taxes. This is you finish

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Speaker 1: all of your work for the year, and you are

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Speaker 1: paying something other than payroll taxes. Only half, Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: an incredibly insane number. They want eighty seven thousand new

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Speaker 1: agents to go after the half of people that are

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Speaker 1: actually paying tax in this country federal income tax. And

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Speaker 1: if you opposed it at all, you are an indefensible cheat.

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Speaker 1: But we opposed it on this show because we pointed

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Speaker 1: out everybody thinks, oh, they're only going to go after

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Speaker 1: the billionaires. They're already doing that. I'm being audited every year.

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Speaker 1: They're already doing that. Donald Trump way richer than me.

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Speaker 1: He's getting audited every year. They're already coming after people

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Speaker 1: who pay substantial amounts of tax, the vast majority, and

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Speaker 1: this has been proven out. When they expand IRS enforcement,

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Speaker 1: they're going to come to a large extent for people

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Speaker 1: that are not super wealthy but that pay taxes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you run a small business, they're going to be pouring

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Speaker 1: over your books. Okay, they want to do that, But

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Speaker 1: they simultaneously consider it an outrage that Elon would be

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how much of the government taxpayer

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Speaker 1: dollars you're in my money that they are spending is

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Speaker 1: government to be flawless. I mean, it is an untenable

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Speaker 1: ask you, I bet most of you If I said,

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Speaker 1: federal government? Who would you rather have helping you in

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Speaker 1: buck are now in the position think about how untenableness

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Speaker 1: is to be arguing, how in the world can we

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Speaker 1: beholding our taxpayer dollars accountable and searching for fraud on

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Speaker 1: the money that we're actually spending. But simultaneously that's unacceptable,

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Speaker 1: but we need to be looking for every American's fraud.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like an It's an absolutely indefensible position. Well,

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Speaker 1: they've also put themselves in a place where the Democrats

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Speaker 1: are so upset about USAID, the United States Agency for

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Speaker 1: International Development. Marco Rubio has been phenomenal on this. By

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Speaker 1: the way, he shall now be known as Big Marco,

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Speaker 1: no longer Little Marco. People are saying he is the

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Speaker 1: some people are saying most Improved Award. Now, Marca Rubio

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Speaker 1: is great, a great senator from my state in Florida,

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Speaker 1: doing a fantastic job already as Secretary of State. And

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Speaker 1: he explained this that that really there's this sense that

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Speaker 1: USAID Clay operates outside the government chain of command, even

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Speaker 1: more so than the State Department, which I might add

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Speaker 1: also thinks in many ways that operates outside the presidential

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Speaker 1: chain of command, and they do whatever they want there

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Speaker 1: the career employees. And now you've got these Beltway democrats,

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Speaker 1: particularly liked the DC media blob. It's like, what do

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Speaker 1: you mean? I mean, you're cutting the budget for transgender

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Speaker 1: puppet shows in Mongolia. It's like, why are we funding

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Speaker 1: transgender puppet shows in Mongolia? Like what is this? Whose

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Speaker 1: idea is this? This is some global charity run by

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Speaker 1: leftist that's using your tax. It's one thing if they

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Speaker 1: out of their own bank account. But they're doing it

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Speaker 1: out of your bank account. And you don't even know

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Speaker 1: anybody about it. And so Clay, the more that they

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Speaker 1: get angry about this, the more people say, really, we're

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Speaker 1: supposed to fund this and that. Because they haven't said

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Speaker 1: they're going to cut everything the USA Idea is doing.

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Speaker 1: They're saying it's going to go under the State Department

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Speaker 1: we start to talk budget. For first of all, what

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Speaker 1: of what you just referenced, USAID's DEI funding priorities cut five.

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Speaker 1: Listen to what your taxpayer dollars have been going.

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Speaker 2: To through USAID over the past several years. These are

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Speaker 2: some of the insane priorities that that organization has been

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Speaker 2: spending money on one point five million dollars to advance

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Speaker 2: Dei in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for a production of

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Speaker 2: comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but

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Speaker 2: as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by

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Speaker 2: President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste, and

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Speaker 1: Government paying without I mean, let's fight on this hill

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Speaker 1: all day, lives. Bring it. Democrats explain why tax dollars

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Speaker 1: at a time where people are also feeling prices rise

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Speaker 1: just the last four years. We're doing transgender operas in

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Speaker 1: Colombia now. And the point here, Clay is okay. They

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Speaker 1: big the budget is, well, then why are we doing this?

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Speaker 1: But why are we doing it at all? Well, why

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Speaker 1: does this come from the United States checkbook? Who's spending

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Speaker 1: their time? Remember, there's someone who's spending their time on this,

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Speaker 1: there's someone administering this program. There are meetings that are

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Speaker 1: being held on this. The whole thing is a scam totally.

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Speaker 1: And when I think you go to any of you

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Speaker 1: I've been there. Most of you out there have been

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Speaker 1: That's not the US government's problem. It's not a revenue problem.

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Speaker 1: It's a spending problem. In fact, Buck And this is

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Speaker 1: Do you know our budget would be balanced if we

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Speaker 1: freaking budget. We would have a balanced budget right now.

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Speaker 1: The revenue is not the issue, Clay. The two most

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Speaker 1: important things from a governance perspective right now in this

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Speaker 1: Trump has gone just all in with his team and

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Speaker 1: having Elon look at this and deal with this. I

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Speaker 1: mean the fact that people at USAID would quoted this

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Speaker 1: And when you see the scope of the fraud and

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Speaker 1: the abuse. And to Clay's point also about the government,

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Speaker 1: is you know, I think I received one year from

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Speaker 1: the IRS. I think they wanted like another one hundred

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Speaker 1: paid seven figures. Thankfully. I'm very happy for my success

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Speaker 1: in taxes for the last seven or eight years. Okay,

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Speaker 1: just saying that not to brag, but the government told

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Speaker 1: But this is this is about laws, the same laws

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Speaker 1: and the same system that bind you and me and

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Speaker 1: all of you listening to this for every penny, every

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Speaker 1: penny of your income, and the opaque, an absurd and

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Speaker 1: rigged tax code that is, you know, you have this

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Speaker 1: extreme obligation to the state, which by the way, should

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Speaker 1: also be chopped down considerably. I think there's a whole

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Speaker 1: conversation here about a flat tax, a fair tax, IRS

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Speaker 1: going down to much much lower levels. And on the

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Speaker 1: it exists forever. I mean, Clay, forty forty billion dollars

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Speaker 1: taking a look right now. Anyone want to guess what

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Speaker 1: Border Patrol's budget is? Border Patrol, I want you to

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Speaker 1: just think in your head. USAID gets forty billion, Clay,

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Speaker 1: do legitimate sixty billion, one hundred billion, seven seven billion.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty crazy for border Patrol. The FDNY, the Fire

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Speaker 1: billion dollar budget. Our entire border patrol gets seven billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: This is the twenty twenty four budget. Everybody and and

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Speaker 1: USAID gets forty billion dollars. Now that's pretty pretty. World

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Speaker 1: is a big place. But what matters to us more

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Speaker 1: everyone seven billion dollars is crazy buck Roughly, that would

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Speaker 1: mean I think I'm correct in this that basically a

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Speaker 1: Like that kind of the entire NFL payroll maybe bigger

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Speaker 1: than what we pay for the border. Yeah, but that

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Speaker 1: doesn't that sound crazy to you? Like, I mean when

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Speaker 1: of the failure to do it is. Right, because whatever

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Speaker 1: in disbelief. I have been very impressed with mister Sequan

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Speaker 1: NFL are earning their earning their their their money. I

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Speaker 1: just think it's funny too. I only know about the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl? I am. I'm excited to get down to

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Speaker 1: New Orleans tomorrow. I just saw President Trump is going

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Speaker 1: to go to the game, which which should be good. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: New Orleans still recovering from the fourteen It's amazing how

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Speaker 1: quickly some stories vanished. Democrats talked about January sixth for

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Speaker 1: still do for four years plus. Now the terror attack

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Speaker 1: fourteen people killed, three am ish on Bourbon Street, New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: a place that many of you have been to, just

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Speaker 1: there now, it's like it never happened. There's like those

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Speaker 1: fourteen people now. I think Fox will do a good

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Speaker 1: job drawing attention to them. I'm sure one reason President

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Speaker 1: those that were lost there. But deadly terror attack happens

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Speaker 1: on Bourbon Street, fourteen people dead, It's like most people

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Speaker 1: have already forgotten about it, moved on. So bringing us

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Speaker 1: back to the cutting of government expense here for a second.

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Speaker 1: Someone else who has the writ of Trump to go

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Speaker 1: and do what he needs to do is Lee Zelden,

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Speaker 1: who you remember, congressman from New York. He's the head

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Speaker 1: of the EPA. This is cut twenty. What's it like

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Speaker 4: I think it's important for our team to be showing up.

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Speaker 4: I was just briefed yesterday that on Mondays and Fridays,

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Speaker 4: We need people in the office collaborating, working together. We

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Speaker 4: need to be productive and efficient. As far as ramping

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Speaker 4: up efforts on the ground. Right now in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: But I think it's very important.

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Speaker 4: That we have our team here in headquarters and in

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Speaker 1: I just say, Clay, five to eight percent of EPA

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Speaker 1: long holiday week. Every weekend is a long weekend. Think

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Speaker 1: just pouring over reports and saving the clean water and

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Speaker 1: stopping the climate change scam, scam of it. Eight percent

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Speaker 1: showing up. You know how many people you probably needed

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Speaker 1: by the way, you know who a huge percentage of

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Speaker 1: the eight percent is security when you actually strip out

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Speaker 1: what are we doing here? I mean what we've seen

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Speaker 1: And this is why this is brilliant. This is a

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Speaker 1: under Trump's umbrella here Clay USAID has been operating as

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Speaker 1: And now that we're uncovering this, people are The Democrats

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I don't know if anybody else ever done this.

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