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Speaker 1: Renewing President Trump's twenty seventeen middle class tax cuts. Again,

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Speaker 1: these are the President's priorities.

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Speaker 2: I'm signing an executive order to make an attorney general

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

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Speaker 4: Well, happy Friday morning. You made it to the weekend.

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Speaker 4: Ben Ferguson with you, and here are the big stories

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Speaker 4: we're covering today. On the forty seven Morning Update, President

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Speaker 4: Trump has unveiled a new plan for the quote largest

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Speaker 5: What's in it?

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Speaker 4: I'll give you all the details coming up in just

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Speaker 4: a moment. Also, you know about how much money the

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Speaker 4: government was giving to private media companies. That's been exposed

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Speaker 4: by DOJE. But what happens when you have radio stations

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Speaker 4: that are backed by George Soros broadcasting the live locations

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Speaker 4: an investigation into exactly that.

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Speaker 5: I'll give you those details as well.

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Speaker 4: And finally, if you are a Christian or religious individual,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna love what President Trump is planning on sunny,

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Speaker 4: an executive order creating a task force to eradicate anti

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Speaker 4: Christian bias within the US federal government. It is the

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Speaker 4: forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now.

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: There are two themes that we are witnessing happening each

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Speaker 4: slashing the size of government, and two giving those savings

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Speaker 4: that only two hundred and ninety four USAID staffers are

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Speaker 4: White House today, as the White House Press Secretary came

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Speaker 5: What's in it? She describes it.

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Speaker 1: So, these are the tax priorities of the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: President Trump's twenty seventeen middle class tax cuts. Again, these

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Speaker 4: You hear that list, and there's some things in there

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Speaker 4: Of the most important announcements that Donald Trump will make

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Speaker 2: To confront such weaponization and religious persecution. Today, I'm signing

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Speaker 6: She's going to be a great Attorney General, Pambondi.

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Speaker 2: The head of a task force brand new to eradicate

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Speaker 6: About time right, anti Christian bias.

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Speaker 2: The mission of this task force will be to immediately

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Speaker 4: The order clearly establishes a task force called the Quote

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Speaker 4: include members of Trump's cabinet and agencies. The task Force

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