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Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning. Ben Ferguson with it. It's nice to

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Speaker 4: have you on the forty seven Morning Update. And here

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Speaker 4: are the three big stories that you need to know about.

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Speaker 4: First up, the President signing an executive order to secure

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Speaker 4: America's elections, meaning that your vote might actually count more

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Speaker 4: than ever before. Also, the Trump administration is cutting off

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Speaker 4: federal funding to Plan Parenthood. Between twenty nineteen and twenty

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Speaker 4: abortions and much of it was subsidized with your tax dollars.

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Speaker 4: Have the breakdown of that story in just a moment.

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Speaker 4: And finally, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy no

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Speaker 4: it be because of all the waste, fraud and abuse.

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump making liberal heads explode. Why because he said

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Speaker 4: enough is enough with election fraud. The President signing an

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Speaker 5: Lastly, sir, we have an executive order for your attention

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Speaker 5: Among numerous other aspects of this executive order, this is

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Speaker 5: This executive order instructs the EAC to cut federal funding

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Speaker 5: This calls on the Department of Justice to vigorously prosecute

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Speaker 5: in compliance with federal law around election integrity. I could

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Speaker 5: prosecuting foreign interference in our elections, Revoking President Biden's Executive

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Speaker 5: Order fourteen one point nine, which essentially weaponized government to

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Speaker 2: Election fraud. You've heard the term will end it. Hopefully

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Speaker 4: So let's go through the list of things that are

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Speaker 4: The potential suspension will impact services, no doubt at Planned Parenthood.

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