Yes, and so will all the people that he has put in office in all of these different departments and in the government will support it, including the military.
There's not stopping this.
I mean, but I do need someone to reflect on something, and I do mean that.
And I'm only on Social Security.
So, you know, when they go after the Social Security and Medicare, I have a pension of $72.20.
So take my Social Security way.
And I've worked since I was 13 years old.
I know nobody wants to hear it.
Blah, blah, blah.
I get it.
I also take care of a brother who's in wheelchair bound, and he's 80 years old.
And neither one of us qualify to file for taxes because our income is below poverty.
So go ahead and slash into our Social Security.
And please, I've read the 2025 project several times.
I mean, nobody grasped it.
They told you what they're going to do, and they will do it.
I have no doubt about that.
And for him to have called the head of Ukraine, a dictator, to do the kind of things he's doing, they're not just flashes in a pan or smokescreens for anybody.
These are things that are in fact what he intends on doing.
And I would ask, just, and there's just one point I want to make.
I mean, you can all, there's just two points, and I won't bother anybody any longer.
The first point is that all these people that you are firing, including FBI agents and members of the Justice Department, where do you think these people are going?
What do you think we're going to do?
He didn't receive a mass majority of the vote of 150 million people.
Let's talk to Phil in Orange Park, Florida, Independent Line.
unidentified
Yes, good morning.
Morning.
Donald Trump, I give him an F. Not a D minus, but a straight F. Incomplete work.
But the reason I say that is this.
When you have the mindset that you want to go out to people just out of spite, then you have to look at this guy.
He is doing things.
He playing a good chess move, and the people they have around him are no dummies.
They know how the government works.
So, when you start taking pieces out of the government or reducing the government so it won't be effective in size, I never known a family in the United States of America to have 10, 12, 15 people living in a two-bedroom house and then saying that we got to downsize.
What you gonna do?
The American people got over 350 million people in it.
So, the government agencies that support these people have to be big enough to get them adequate and timely service.
What's going to happen?
So, the people that say they like what they're going to say to like what Donald Trump did, ask yourself this question, though.
You know, you might like them for other reasons.
I've been saying this since Donald Trump walked on stage, and people say, Well, you're wrong.
But when you, Donald Trump has a lot of tendencies, raping women, assaulting women, excuse me, like to assault women, always want to criticize the least of us.
He always pretends to be a bully.
I'm a 23-year vet.
If I had a sergeant in front of me, a commander in front of me that didn't was scared to leave, how could I follow you?
Donald Trump was a coward to go to Vietnam, and now he wants to talk about how tough he is.
And then the people that support him, knowing that they need it.
But keep this in mind, America.
A lot of the cuts that Donald Trump doing are coming from your red states.
And then the federal government, oh, yes, a lot of Republicans in the federal government.
Now they are seeing the exact same thing that I seen.
He is going to hurt this country, and we're going to be hurting along with it.
All right, Phil, and this is some response from lawmakers.
Here's Representative Eric Burlson, a Republican of Missouri.
One month in, President Trump has delivered on his promise to secure our homeland, reversed catch and release, resumed border wall construction, shut down the CBP1 app, deportation flights, terminated all taxpayer-funded public benefits for illegals.
And this is Senator Tommy Tubberville.
One month ago, the president was sworn in as our 47th president, and we haven't stopped winning.
We are securing our border, cutting spending, ending woke gender ideology, protecting women's sports, and confirming an American first cabinet.
Here's Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats.
It's barely been a month, and Trump has frozen grants, undermined medical research, and fired NIH researchers for no reason.
This is devastating for the biomedical research seeking new life-saving cures and treatments.
And Representative Judy Hsu, a Democrat, says, Trump's first month has brought us mass funding and hiring freezes, mass firings of federal employees, and hourly chaos.
This is not an example.
This is not an exaggeration.
These policy choices put us all in danger.
And this is Sharon in Gwyn Oak, Maryland, Democrat.
Hi, Sharon.
unidentified
Oh, how are you doing, Mimi?
Good morning to you.
Good morning.
I grade Donald Trump.
I won't give him no grade at all because he has a revenge against people that, you know, he thought did him wrong.
And I just don't understand how we got people that stand up here and let this man just tear this country down in chaos.
And people don't realize we have children.
You know, our children don't need to be going through this.
And then you wonder why these young people get out here and do the things they do.
Donald Trump is not a good representative for this country.
He needs to be impeached, and our country needs to be put back where it needs to be put back.
And the federal workers, I feel sorry for them because they had to run up here to get a job, you know, to pay their mortgage and, you know, buy food and stuff like that.
And I just feel, I just don't feel too good about it because Donald Trump is not doing the right thing for this country.
And the spooky thing about it, he's fraternizes with Vladimir Putin, the worst person ever, evil.
And he side with him to be his buddy.
And it's not right.
He doesn't care about the American people.
So that's why I'm not giving him no grade.
And as me being a black African-American woman, I'm doing fine because I put my faith in God and I pray to God and I ask God to pray for this country, to look out for this country, because Donald Trump is trying to tear this country up because he wants to be a dictator.
And this is a day yesterday, and he says this in part.
He says, if your goal in voting for President Donald Trump was to, quote, own the libs and make fellow Americans you've decided to hate feel scared or miserable, then congratulations.
The first month of the nation's first ever convicted felon president has been a massive success.
If your goal in voting for Trump was to make your own life better, perhaps by lowering the cost of eggs and other groceries, or entrusting a Republican to fiercely battle inflation, I have bad news for you.
You were conned along with millions of others, and Trump's first month in office has demonstrated how little he cares about you or your day-to-day existence.
That is in USA Today.
If you'd like to read that opinion piece, and this is Jack, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Democrat.
Good morning, Jack.
unidentified
Hey, good morning.
I think the piece of the article you just read sums it up.
Donald Trump has been a resounding failure from everything beginning with his cabinet picks, with his pardoning of the J Sixers, with his systematic destruction of the federal government and gutting the federal workforce.
Inflation is on the rise again.
Food prices are creeping back up.
I mean, egg prices are ridiculous at this time.
Everything, in his mind, is still Joe Biden's fault, even though he's the president.
So, yeah, it's been a resounding failure.
His foreign policy has been a disaster.
He's spitting in the face of all our allies, our allies for the North and Canada.
He started a trade war.
Our European allies, he has absolutely no regard for.
This country is in trouble.
And if you don't believe me, just look at what's happening when these Republican congressional members are going back home and holding these town halls.
People are upset.
And there seems to be this idea that Republicans or red states won't be affected by what Trump is doing with all these cuts to our federal workforce and the federal government.
National parks are suffering.
You name it.
It's a problem.
And hopefully what will happen is these Republicans who vote for Donald Trump will wake up and see that they have been conned.
Donald Trump is a con man.
He's conned his way back into office.
And unfortunately, we're all going to suffer from it.
And the only thing that will help is in two years, these Republicans vote for these congressional members who just abdicate their responsibility and get them out of there so we can get somebody in there who will hold President Trump accountable.
I think that what the president has tried to do is recognize that we have a historical mandate on a few issues.
We have to secure the southern border, and thanks to his actions, border crossings are down well over 90%, and we're just getting started.
I think he recognizes that we have to really unlock the engine of American growth.
We've got to get back to having a growing economy that creates good jobs and high wages for the American people.
And a lot of that goes back to drill, baby, drill.
We've done more on energy under President Trump's leadership than I think any administration in history.
And that's not an exaggeration.
And of course, we're going to do more.
And then I think the third thing that he's tried to do, of course, with the help of Elon and all the great folks at Doge, is ask, what are we doing with all of the American taxpayers' money?
And why are we wasting so much of it on garbage that the American people either aren't aware that we're spending it on or don't want to be spending it on in the first place?
Like, for example, the stuff that we've figured out, Mercedes, is unbelievable.
Why are we spending money on progressive modern art projects centered around toilets in Afghanistan?
That's actually something that your tax dollars were funding until very recently.
And I think all of us are sitting around and asking, what the hell are we doing with the American people's money for the last four years?
Let's turn off the spigot and spend the American people's tax money on the American people's priority.
And that's, of course, been a big focus in the administration, too.
And here is Edwin in New Bern, North Carolina, Independent.
Good morning.
unidentified
Let me try to educate your listeners.
Okay.
I give shout outs to Senator Rand Paul.
This is how it goes.
The Senate is about to pass a bill for $341 billion more in funding.
We take in $5 trillion in income and we spend $7.5 trillion this year.
That's a $2.2 trillion deficit.
Okay.
If we don't watch it, we're going to be broke in this country.
And the party of fiscal responsibility Republicans are not showing me.
Because do you know all the funding that Doge has found that could be a rescinding spill back to Congress, okay, and be reallocated to cover the $341 billion that they're trying to pass.
Secondly, the most successful program is PAYGO.
And this year they're about to stop it.
$1. trillion, $1.7 trillion in cuts.
And that was done by Bill Clinton and John Kasichs, and it goes like this.
Any program that started, it's going to be killed.
Okay?
I don't know, this is crazy, but to think about giving $5,000 in checks to everybody, it ain't going to happen.
It's not in the blueprint.
I want every person in America that has a congressman to contact their congressman and ask him the money that was saved on Doge, put it as a rescindence bill back in Congress.
They can vote on it.
And they don't have to, right now, $341 billion, money's going to Coast Guard and to the border.
And this is crazy.
We are going to kill each other from within.
And people and Social Security, in 2032, they only get 20% of their money.
And for all my fellow employees, I was a federal employee for 31 years.
You have rights.
If you're not a probationary employee and you're a career competitive service, you need to get up with the U.S. Merit System Protection Board, file a claim, get a lawyer, and your activity has to show you why they're letting you go.
If it's not for misconduct or performance, you got a case.
Because I helped somebody, they sent home for a year.
They fired her unwillingly.
She went to the American System Protection Board.
She got a year's worth of back pay and her lawyer's fees were pay.
I just don't understand.
The party that's supposed to be fiscally responsible is not showing me anything.
And with Doge, I'm going to tell you right now, every agency, all those items are showing.
And the 14 appropriations that cover the budget this year, everybody in Congress needs to redline every single item.
And I do want to update people that early this morning, the Senate did vote.
So here's Politico.
Senate Republicans just approved their budget resolution after a more than 10-hour voterama.
For now, it's the GOP's, quote, plan B, as Trump's preferred budget may not have the support to move ahead next week in the House.
It says there is some Republicans grumbled about having to go through the exercise.
Senator Josh Howley told reporters he spoke to Trump on Thursday evening, relaying that while the president did give a quote little nod towards the Senate budget in a Truth Social Post, quote, he made clear to me he wants one big, beautiful bill.
And we have a person that's willing to take all the heat and all the conflicts from every party, every group of people, class, whatever you want to call it.
unidentified
And the federal workers, they're upset because they've had a gravy train for a long time.
They get high pay, great benefits, and all those different things.
They don't have to necessarily produce.
They just live off the grift of their money and they don't have to worry about any consequence for not producing.
Now, America's viability in the past was because they could produce and they could actually make something so that we could actually create wealth.
unidentified
And when we have just everybody living off the tax base, there's nothing creative.
And if you don't create something, you don't make any wealth.
And that's where we are today.
And people are going to have to stand up.
And the sad thing is, there's a lot of people that are on Social Security, and the only way that that's going to, we're going to be able to take care of those people on Social Security, the old elderly, and the actual real disabled people, is if we actually create some wealth.
And I think Donald Trump is doing the best job because he's willing to stand for what is right.
Conrad, let me ask you about this article and get your reaction to it.
So this is NPR is reporting the headline, IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season.
Do you worry at all, Conrad, about the IRS not having the staffing required to process tax returns and tax refunds?
unidentified
Not a bit.
If you look into the actual, the audit that's been done on agents that have been delinquent on paying their taxes, it doesn't scare me a bit.
And if people go and do their research and look up when income tax was actually implemented and actually see if the actual legality of actually being taxed, and people would be really surprised.
And those are the things that people don't want to hear, but that's the reality.
And that's why there was a congressman or congresswoman, I believe, that said taxes are voluntary.
Last time I knew, there's nobody that believes that our taxes are voluntary.
And these are the things that people need to look into and not just believe the three letter news agencies that are telling you their little talking points and the people saying these things.
And Ron, when you said that some people will be laid off by accident, so the AP reports a few days ago, Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in Doge Reversal.
My understanding is that they were having trouble finding those workers since their government emails were terminated.
I'm pretty pleased with the job President Trump is doing so far.
I guess I'll give him about a B. In particular, with the layoffs.
And yesterday there was a federal employee called in calling himself Washington, and he was very upset and distressed about the layoffs.
And apparently he and his colleagues, they just worked so hard and are so dedicated.
But I'm going to call myself America.
And this is a message from me, America, to Washington, so that Washington can better understand what's happening.
A federal agency is supposed to provide some type of public service.
And the people that are hired to affect that service are public servants.
They're paid with tax dollars.
And that's my money.
My money, Washington.
You're taking it from me, and you're telling me you're going to provide a public service.
And here's the problem.
Your service sucks.
That's why this is happening.
It sucks across the board.
Your Postal Service, it sucks, Washington.
America can't count on the Post Office to be open on time, for the mail to be delivered on time, for the Inspection Department to do anything when something's lost.
The Postal Service sucks.
We had a presidential candidate almost get assassinated twice because of service from the Secret Service.
It sucks.
You had an article, 6,000 people got fired from IRS.
They had 6,000 extra superfluous people and they couldn't even answer the phone because the service sucks.
The FBI and the DOJ can't successfully prosecute an Olympic doctor for raping gymnasts.
They got him dead to rights.
The service sucks.
NASA abandons astronauts in space.
The service sucks.
U.S. Marshals and the Prison Bureau can't protect an inmate in a maximum security prison.
The service sucks.
We can't win wars because the service our general provides totally sucks.
The Social Security Administration was supposed to manage all our retirement funds.
They got squandered and lost because the service sucks.
And it's over and over.
It's everywhere across the federal government.
I see Tom Holman on TV running his mouth about how great Border Patrol is.
I don't know if Washington noticed, but CDP failed to provide that service for four straight years.
And Washington's going to go with some cop out.
We're just dedicated to the mission.
Well, if that were true, then CDP agents would have been quitting in droves over the last four years to join Texas DPS and Texas National Guard because those were the only institutions that were fulfilling the mission of securing the border.
I think two-thirds of the federal workforce workforce in DC is a joke anyway.
I mean, we call them non-essential.
I was in DC when that city shut down because only essential people were working.
I mean, why are we paying the salary of superfluous people who've done nothing to deliver any public service?
We are sick and tired of crappy public service and even crappier public servants who confuse working hard with working long hours, mainly because of a DC commute.
John in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Republican, you're next.
unidentified
Thank you for taking my call.
I would definitely give President Trump an A.
I think he's doing exactly what he said he would do, just like he did in the first four years of his presidency.
Promises made, promises kept.
One thing I'd like to point out is you had brought up an article from USA Today, which is a paper only because they have contracts with hotels to lay them in front of people's doors or they wouldn't even be in business.
But the gentleman had to bring up the eggs.
And you keep bringing that up every day on here.
And it's getting really old.
There's a bird flu.
And a lot of farmers are really hurting because they had to kill their chickens because of the bird flu.
And that's caused the shortage.
And I really wished you would have pointed that out after you read the article.
The other thing is, is all the Democrats that call in every day and want to see him impeached.
Well, go ahead and impeach them.
Bring the articles of impeachment and impeach him.
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unidentified
Oh, that's right.
You guys don't have the House and you don't have the Senate.
So there's no way you can impeach him right now.
So I don't know why people keep calling in and saying they want to see this, they want to see that.
We, the American people, voted.
He is our president for the next four years, and everybody's just going to have to put up with it.
And a few days ago, somebody was, a caller asked about Elon Musk's security clearance and whether he had a top secret clearance.
I mentioned that he has said on X that he does have a and has had a top secret security clearance, even though there was reporting that he was not able to get one because of previous drug use and contacts with foreign nationals.
So CNN did put in a FOIA request to see Elon Musk and the people around him what their level of security clearance was.
So CNN, it says the Trump administration has quietly fired multiple members of the privacy team and other officials from the office that oversees the hiring and firing of the hiring of federal workers, a move that limits outside access to government records related to security clearances granted to Elon Musk and his associates.
CNN was first notified of the firings at the Office of Personnel Management in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for records related to the security clearances of Musk and anyone from the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, who had been granted access to sensitive or classified government networks.
And here's what they got in response from an OPM email address.
Quote, good luck with that.
They just got rid of the entire privacy team.
In addition to the privacy team, members of OPM's communication staff and employees who handle FOIA requests were also fired.
And this is Sherry in Clayton, Ohio, Independent Line.
unidentified
Hi.
Okay.
So I'm trying my best to try to hurry up and get everything in.
First of all, to all the people that keep on talking about federal workers, it's a sad thing.
It's a sad thing where you hear people say that federal workers are lazy.
I'm a federal worker.
I'm not lazy.
I serve my veterans every day.
Agencies, there are so many agencies or agencies under the government.
And what happens is people hear the word government.
I heard the one caller talking about as of, yeah, you know, the worker sucks.
Well, he's probably on some type of federal program, but they won't even say that, okay?
And it sucks to the reason why, as of it's so understaffed.
Where I work at is so understaffed.
Really everywhere in the government is so understaffed.
And people don't realize that.
You know, that's why I wish the news would go into the agency to see what agencies do.
It's heartbreaking.
It's heartbreaking because you have a workload and you hardly never try.
You try to your best to get it done.
And people think that you make all this money.
We don't make no, well, I know I don't make no money.
And, you know, so people got to start educating themselves as of quit thinking as a federal worker, they have something against them.
There's nothing wrong with a federal worker.
We work our butts off just like private sector.
Okay.
I worked in private sector and I as going into federal as a federal worker, but no one's lazy, okay?
So Sherry, what are the job functions of those people that have been laid off?
unidentified
You have crisis line where people attend the veterans that want to harm themselves or, you know, the crisis line.
You have people where as the nurses, they got their contracts rescinded, whereas the doctors also got their contracts reset, not contracts, where they're when they try to go for the job, they got rescinded.
So you have all these doctors and nurses, medical staff, getting their offers rescinded.
And this hurts these veterans.
And people don't realize this.
People don't realize that all these agencies that where you have an immigrant, because Elon Musk is an immigrant, okay?
A billionaire immigrant going in, slashing things, and not really taking a look as of, okay, what's going on here?
Let's go in a little bit at a time as of what we need to cut.
But you cannot just go ahead and gut something.
Everybody's going to feel the effect, okay?
All these agencies, and like I said before, people really need to understand the government has a whole bunch of agencies to make this world go right.
And you thinking that people sit back and just don't do nothing, eat bomb box?
No, they do not.
Okay.
And that guy that stated that, like, you know, he's happy about this.
You have people that lost their jobs.
They are basically worried about their mortgages.
They are basically trying to figure out how they're going to take care of their kids.
But who does that?
What American, what human being would feel as of happiness for someone to lose their job?
It's sick.
This world is sick.
Republican and Democrat.
We need to stop doing this.
This is why I get so upset about politicians because everybody is like two parties and you have these two parties that are acting crazy instead of just one.
We should, as a human being, you know, you should be that good human being as of wanting your fellow American as of doing, you know, hoping they're okay, hoping they're doing right.
But instead of saying that, you know, you're happy that they're getting fired, are you happy?
People lost jobs.
It's not just federal.
There's a lot of people are losing jobs in the private sector.