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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Steff

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Speaker 1: I Never told you, production by Hurt Radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome to another edition of Monday Many.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, as the world is ever evolving and changing,

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Speaker 3: we want to try to be as informative as possible

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Speaker 3: helping to dismantle some of the misinformation and disinformation. So

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Speaker 3: we thought we would take a closer look, I guess

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Speaker 3: a brief look, not a closer look, but a brief

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Speaker 3: look at the different executive orders being thrown out there

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Speaker 3: like spaghetti on the wall, to see what's sicks right

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Speaker 3: and what organizations are doing to fight it. So we

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Speaker 3: want to talk about both of those processes because we've

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Speaker 3: heard a lot of the bad. We're not hearing who

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Speaker 3: is fighting and doing what. And to be honest, we're

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Speaker 3: not sure all the time who is doing what, but

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Speaker 3: we're trying to keep it together. Yeah, and with that,

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Speaker 3: I'm go ahead and tell you it is February seventh,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. And yeah, content warning, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 3: about what is happening in politics and administration here in

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Speaker 3: the US. And this is specific to the US, so

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Speaker 3: sorry in advance, but these are.

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Speaker 2: Things that we have to keep track of.

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Speaker 3: I hope when we listen or look back onto this

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Speaker 3: in the in the future days that we can laugh

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Speaker 3: about it and say, oh, that was a weird time.

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Speaker 3: I'm so glad that we're not there now. That's that's

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Speaker 3: what I want to hear. But you know what we'll

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Speaker 3: see so as a quick refresher or maybe a first

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Speaker 3: time knowledge for you, because honestly, I don't know much

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Speaker 3: about executive orders because I did not care to know,

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Speaker 3: and that's sat on me. But now it's very important

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Speaker 3: that we know what are executive orders and how is

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Speaker 3: it used. So here's some information from the ACLU. Article

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Speaker 3: two of the Constitution vests the president with executive power

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Speaker 3: over the government, including the obligation to quote take care

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Speaker 3: that the laws be faithfully executed. An executive order is

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Speaker 3: a written directive assigned by the president that orders the

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Speaker 3: government to take specific actions to ensure quote the laws

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Speaker 3: be faithfully executed. But with that these orders quote cannot

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Speaker 3: override federal laws and statutes. So I'm saying quotes because

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Speaker 3: this is from the actual article that they are are quoting.

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Speaker 3: So this is all from the ACLU, but the quotes

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Speaker 3: within it are about from the article in the Constitution

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Speaker 3: just fy. They go into more detail about what the

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Speaker 3: president can or cannot do. They say, with an executive order,

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Speaker 3: president Trump can order the federal government to take any

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Speaker 3: steps that are within the scope of the constitutional authority

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Speaker 3: of the executive branch and do not violate any federal law.

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Speaker 3: They go on, the president cannot use an executive order

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Speaker 3: can't or cannot just to emphasize take over powers from

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Speaker 3: need to remember. And again, yes we are technically unattecks

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Speaker 3: and balances, but if it's all sway to one side,

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Speaker 3: it's a little scary anyway. So with that part out

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Speaker 3: of the way, what are some of the orders that

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Speaker 3: could be harmful. One of the first that Trumps signed

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Speaker 3: was the order to rescind the Civil Rights Statute. More

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Speaker 3: from that ACLU article, they write President Trump's order rescinding

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Speaker 3: Johnson's Order concerning civil rights obligations of federal contractors, for example,

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Speaker 3: doesn't overrule any statute that governs equal protection and employment.

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Speaker 3: Even so, it undermines civil rights protections and sends the

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Speaker 3: signal that federal contractors won't have the same obligations to

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Speaker 3: equal protection is not a priority. So in this conversation,

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Speaker 3: a lot of things can be underneath this, but one

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Speaker 3: that can happen and actually is happening. So keep that

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Speaker 3: doing so, as I said, lawsuits. So from Nbcnews dot

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Speaker 3: Com as of Tuesday, February fourth, so timing, I know,

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Speaker 3: Trump has signed over fifty executive orders, which is the

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Speaker 3: loves to sign things, yep. Now, so here are some

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Speaker 3: And some of these are under broader executive orders. So

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Speaker 3: when he signed that whole DEI think is under the

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Speaker 3: So for one of them is called the American First

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Speaker 3: Policy Directive to the Secretary of State, which instructs the

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Speaker 3: Secretary to bring the America First foreign policy, so meaning

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Speaker 3: like some foreigners, is about US yep, as he's a

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Speaker 3: simply put defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring

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Speaker 3: biological truths to the federal government. It declares that the

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Speaker 3: US policy recognizes two sexes, male and female. Directs federal

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Speaker 3: agencies to use the term sex, not gender, and to

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Speaker 3: ensure federal personnel records and government issued documents such as passports,

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Speaker 3: quote accurately reflect the holder's sex. Directs agencies to ensure

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Speaker 3: federal funds quote do not promote gender ideology, bars federal

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Speaker 3: A federal judge has issued a temporary straining order blocking

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Speaker 3: gender farming care while a lawsuit continues. So again there's

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Speaker 3: moving on to another one, ending radical and wasteful government

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Speaker 3: DEI programs and preferencing. You know what I hear people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's really gross.

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Speaker 3: So this is supposed to end all diversity, equity, inclusion,

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Speaker 3: then also the fact that the DEI includes veterans, older generations,

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Speaker 3: who have actually advanced or had advantages based on these

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Speaker 3: moving on an other words, ending the weaponization of the

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Speaker 3: federal government calls on the Attorney General and other federal

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Speaker 3: agency has to review all civil or criminal enforcement activities

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Speaker 3: as well as intelligence actions taken during the last administration

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Speaker 3: political opponents and requests recommendations for quote appropriate remedial actions

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Speaker 2: Weird, yep, I feel like the call is coming from

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Speaker 2: inside the house. Yeah no, but you know that's what

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Speaker 3: Gas light, establishing and implementing the President's Department of Government efficiencies.

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Speaker 3: All right, we already I know a lot of us

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Speaker 3: have already heard of this, and I refuse to say

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Speaker 3: It renames the United States Digital Service the USDGE Service. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I said it, and creates guidelines for this new organization

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Speaker 3: aimed at quote, modernizing federal technology and software to maximize

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Speaker 3: government efficiency with an olive gar whatever, with a rich

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Speaker 3: Moving on initial recessions of harmful executive orders and actions,

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Speaker 3: it repels, as they say, dozens of a Biden era

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Speaker 3: repealed orders include dozens issued by Biden in his final

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Speaker 3: Another example is protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship.

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Speaker 3: Tells government agencies not to issue documents recognizing citizenship to

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Speaker 3: people born to two parents who do not have a lawful,

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Speaker 3: permanent residence or citizenship in the United States. The order

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Speaker 3: goes into effect thirty days after signing, but it has

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Speaker 3: All right, we have unleashing Alaska's extraordinary resource potential, calling

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Speaker 3: to quote, maximize the development and production of natural resources

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Speaker 3: other things. We're good at the story of the world,

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Speaker 3: moving on ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit based opportunities. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: same thing is diversity, equity and inclusion programs in federal agencies.

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Speaker 3: Instructs the Attorney General and the Office of Management and

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Speaker 3: recommendations on discouraging DEI programs in the private sector. The

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Speaker 3: to issue guidance to educational institutions about complying with Supreme

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Speaker 3: don't think that's gonna be a problem.

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Speaker 2: For most places. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Enforcing the High Amendment revokes two of Biden's executive orders

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Speaker 3: and pharmacies. Established an interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access,

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Speaker 3: explored access to services through Medicaid, and call for improvement

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Speaker 2: That's bad. All of this is bad.

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Speaker 3: Ending radical in doctrination in K through twelve schooling instructs

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Speaker 3: seventy six commission with the Education Department focused on quote

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of ugliness going on, but again,

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