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| This is the Washington Post in Trump's first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency. | ||
| It says first term, | ||
| sorry, the first month of President Trump's second term. | ||
| This is the Washington Examiner. | ||
| Trump flexes power in dizzying first month back in office. | ||
| Quote, he's in command. | ||
| It says President Trump and his aides promised that will | ||
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start. | |
| start with Clara, who's in Garnert, North Carolina, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning, Clara. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I think that I would grade him with an F. | ||
| I certainly understand and expect everything that he's doing is what he said he was going to do, and therefore that's where we're at. | ||
| And I absolutely, you know, when he starts to call himself king, I think that says it all. | ||
| And I think it's everybody should not be surprised or should be absolutely not dumbfounded that I don't think there will be any more elections. | ||
| He can suspend that from the Constitution. | ||
| He is successfully going through and flashing through and killing all of the departments. | ||
| I wouldn't fly now if my life depended on it. | ||
| So, what do you mean that he can suspend elections? | ||
| How would that play out, in your opinion? | ||
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Well, there will not be any more elections. | |
| You think he'll just stay in office indefinitely? | ||
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Yes, absolutely. | |
| That's what he was after. | ||
| 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. | ||
| He didn't receive it. | ||
| He barely received a little over 49%. | ||
| All right, Clara. | ||
| Got to move on to Charles in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Republican. | ||
| Hi, Charles. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| Morning. | ||
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I would give President Trump a D minus. | |
| He has created a nightmare, and he should be removed from office, a derelict of duty. | ||
| The Democratic friend said a lot, but he is not doing what is right for this country at this time. | ||
| That's all. | ||
| So did you vote for him, Charles? | ||
| You're a Republican? | ||
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No, I did not. | |
| Why didn't you? | ||
| Because of his criminal record and the mentality that he has that it's all about Donald Trump and it's not all about Donald Trump. | ||
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Wake up, Donald. | |
| Smell the roses, buddy. | ||
| Let's talk to Phil in Orange Park, Florida, Independent Line. | ||
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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. | ||
| I'm sitting back. | ||
| 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. | ||
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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 that's all I have to say. | ||
| And let's go to the independent line, Tuscumbia, Alabama. | ||
| Noah, you're next. | ||
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Yes, ma'am. | |
| I don't know how you're scoring this. | ||
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I won a 10. | |
| I gave him an 8. | ||
| And the reason I say that is, I mean, he took a bullet, you know, got right up. | ||
| I mean, he won me over there, but I believe his moral stand. | ||
| But what I really agree on as a policy is the Ukraine war. | ||
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We spent $200 or $300 billion over there, and they can't even find $100 billion of it. | |
| Them oligarchs, you know, Ukraine was the most corrupt country in the world. | ||
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And you can go back to the Obama administration. | |
| He sent them blankets. | ||
| When Trump came in there, he gave them tanks. | ||
| And then Biden got in there. | ||
| Then they invaded Ukraine. | ||
| And that's because Kamala Harris went over to Europe and said he was going to invite Ukraine into NATO. | ||
| That's when Russia attacked. | ||
| Now, I don't like Putin either. | ||
| I know he's a dictator, but he never would have tried that with Trump because Trump told NATO countries they need to step up and start paying. | ||
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So now they're going to step up and start paying because Ukraine's running out of men. | |
| They're having to drag me into the front now. | ||
| And we need that money over here. | ||
| We need to stay out of Europe. | ||
| I mean, we fought two wars over. | ||
| My sons have been in the military. | ||
| I've been in the military. | ||
| My dad was in the military. | ||
| And it's just time for us to let Europe take care of Europe. | ||
| Let's guard our borders. | ||
| And these people taking bubble baths that work for the government. | ||
| And you can look at it up online working at home and not doing their job. | ||
| He needs to get rid of these people. | ||
| I'm retired from the government, state government, not federal. | ||
| But them people in federal make a whole lot more money. | ||
| So that's all I got to say. | ||
| And the man's only been in there a month. | ||
| Give him time to clean the swamp out. | ||
| It's more like a sewer now since Biden left. | ||
| But give him time. | ||
| All right, he'll get it done. | ||
| Here's Robert, a Republican in Franklin, Indiana. | ||
| Good morning, Robert. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| I would give him a D. | ||
| It's very sad to me that my party, the party of Ronald Reagan, who had a spine, who saw the defeat of Russia in the Cold War. | ||
| Now we have the president and the MAGA group that seems to be intent on making Russia great again. | ||
| It seems like they're more like the Kremlin than they are Republicans. | ||
| And secondly, you know, the primary job of a president is to keep the country safe. | ||
| And we're gutting the CIA and the FBI at a time when we have turmoil going on in the Middle East. | ||
| Have we forgotten the lessons we learned from 9-11? | ||
| That it's the CIA and the FBI that has kept us safe since 9-01. | ||
| Putting them in turmoil at a time when we're in the most danger. | ||
| Yeah, I think that he has failed in keeping us safe. | ||
| That's my opinion. | ||
| All right, Robert. | ||
| 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. | ||
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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. | ||
| All right, Jack. | ||
| Let's hear from Vice President JD Vance. | ||
| Was at CPAC yesterday morning talking about the administration's accomplishments for the first month. | ||
| 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. | ||
| That was the Vice President from yesterday at CPAC. | ||
| C-SPAN's coverage of the Conservative Political Action Conference continues today. | ||
| This morning with remarks from Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins, also former heirs. | ||
| Jeff in West Virginia. | ||
| Democrat, hi, Jeff. | ||
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Yes, ma'am. | |
| I'm calling from West Virginia, which was a red state for Donald Trump. | ||
| And they have a place called down here, Public Debt. | ||
| And a lot of my neighbors were voting for Trump. | ||
| They walking around scared, crying, nervous, and they were forever Trumpers. | ||
| But on a personal note, I'm a diabetic and I'm on Medicare. | ||
| And when Joe Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28-day supply. | ||
| I just went to CVS to get my new supply. | ||
| It went back up to $80, they said, because the American Recovery Act was canceled. | ||
| So it went from $6 to $80. | ||
| So I don't know if anybody else out there on Medicare and a diabetic, did their insulin shoot up from $6 to $8. | ||
| But this is sad. | ||
| You call Shelly Bacapko and all these offices, Jim Justice office, new senator. | ||
| Nobody calls you back. | ||
| You get a record. | ||
| And everybody's down here now protesting out front of their satellite offices, and they're not even reporting back and saying anything. | ||
| So I don't know, but I get Donald Trump and F into America. | ||
| Ms. Biden, yet? | ||
| So, Jeff, when you say that your neighbors that voted for Trump are walking around scared, what are they scared of? | ||
| What are they telling you? | ||
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Because the biggest provider down there outside of coal and DuPont industry is a place called Public Debt. | |
| It's a government office that a lot of people work at. | ||
| It's good paying jobs, but they're nervous that they're going to be, their jobs are going to be in jeopardy. | ||
| That's what they're scared of. | ||
| Younger people that just first-time home buyers just closing on a home like a neighbor across the street, they just closing the home. | ||
| Her and her husband works at public debt. | ||
| They don't know if they're just going to have a job because they don't know if that's going to get under the cuts or whatever. | ||
| So that's what they're saying. | ||
| They're nervous. | ||
| They're scared. | ||
| They forever Trumpers flying his flags when he was running. | ||
| Now they're nervous and scared. | ||
| So I'll give him an F. All right. | ||
| And here is Edwin in New Bern, North Carolina, Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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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. | ||
| That way, Doge is not involved. | ||
| I don't understand this. | ||
| So, Edwin, I want to, Edwin, I want to show you The Guardian with the headline, because you were talking about this. | ||
| Trump floats an idea to give Americans 20% of, quote, savings from Doge cost cutting. | ||
| And it says Elon Musk suggests $5,000 checks to U.S. households if targets are met, sparking concern over a potential rise in inflation. | ||
| So you would reject that idea of sending checks out to Americans. | ||
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Of course, it's inflationary. | |
| You know why? | ||
| During COVID, when money was given out and approved by Donald Trump, guess what happened? | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And I guarantee you, today, the unemployment numbers are going to rise and it's going to affect the stock market. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because all the probationary federal employees are sent home. | ||
| Judges sent home. | ||
| Inspector generals that inspect activities go home. | ||
| I don't understand this. | ||
| And I'm going to just explain to you. | ||
| We're in a $2.2 trillion deficit. | ||
| All the money that Doge is saving, it can go as what's called a resingence bill. | ||
| It goes back to the press. | ||
| We got that, Edwin. | ||
| 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. | ||
| He said that two or three times on the phone. | ||
| So we'll be following that. | ||
| We'll see what happens in the House next week. | ||
| This is Conrad, Farmington, Maine, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Morning. | |
| I would give Donald Trump an A. | ||
| And most people don't understand that the chief executive officer of the United States of America is the president. | ||
| And whenever a CEO comes into a business or is hired to take over a business, he has to make decisions based upon all the different departments. | ||
| And he has to go and analyze all the different problems within the system. | ||
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And that's what Donald Trump and his team is doing. | |
| And the second time around, he has a lot better idea of what's going on. | ||
| That's why he has such a diverse group of cabinet picks. | ||
| And with all these different problems, America's been going down the tubes for a long time, since probably the early 1900s. | ||
| And what people are going to have to understand is that this is not going to be an easy task. | ||
| 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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
| And it's not going to be easy for any of us. | ||
| 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? | ||
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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 so Conrad, I got to move on. | ||
| Here is Jerry in Erie, Pennsylvania, Democrat. | ||
| Go ahead, Jerry. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I just wanted to say that I would give Trump a D. | ||
| Okay, why? | ||
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Because whenever I see him on TV, he's patting his own self on the back. | |
| And there's one thing I hate. | ||
| I like for somebody else to give me, you know, to praise me, not praising myself. | ||
| Whatever he's doing, he's not doing a good job, so he has to pat his own self on the back. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And here is Ron in North Miami Beach, Florida, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, Ron. | ||
| You're on. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
| Yeah, this is something. | ||
| I'll give him a B because we've got a long way to go. | ||
| He's been amazing. | ||
| I've never seen anybody in my lifetime like him. | ||
| I'm 75. | ||
| I've owned my own business for 40-some years. | ||
| I never minded paying taxes. | ||
| If I paid taxes, that meant I was doing well. | ||
| I was making money. | ||
| And here's a businessman that's known that for his whole life. | ||
| He grew up in a pretty tough city, New York. | ||
| He knows his way around the whole world because of it. | ||
| I think you ought to give him a chance to get the job done here. | ||
| We're in trouble. | ||
| You know, there's one big factor that most of our listeners don't even consider. | ||
| They're worried about losing a little here and there because of some benefits. | ||
| But we're in a situation where if our dollar is devalued, we're going to be out of business. | ||
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It's just that simple. | |
| So, Ron, I'm curious why, since you said he's doing a great job, why give him a B, not an A? | ||
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Well, because we've got a long ways to go. | |
| There's been some mistakes made. | ||
| We've got to admit that. | ||
| Last night I listened to Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful, and he hit it right on the head. | ||
| He says if he buys a company and he goes in there and cleans house, he says somebody that may get fired by accident, they can hire him back. | ||
| And that's what's happened already. | ||
| We got a lot to do in a short time to do it. | ||
| We are in big trouble. | ||
| This debt is mind-boggling. | ||
| It hasn't been that many years that we've gotten into this trouble. | ||
| Don't forget in Clinton, they balanced the budget. | ||
| We had money. | ||
| We got nothing. | ||
| We got nothing. | ||
| It's hard to believe that we have to pay the interest is more than we spend on our military. | ||
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We need to build ships. | |
| We need to build planes. | ||
| We need to build our systems. | ||
| We're not going to have the money. | ||
| We're going to be in trouble. | ||
| You're going to see countries that care less about value of their dollar, like China. | ||
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They can do whatever they want. | |
| They own the country. | ||
| 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. | ||
| But we will follow that story as well. | ||
| Here's Ryan, False Church, Virginia, Independent Line. | ||
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Hi. | |
| 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. | ||
| Your service sucks, Washington. | ||
| John in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, Republican, you're next. | ||
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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. | ||
| 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 I'm loving it. | ||
| We win every day with Trump and Yvonne around. | ||
| And I guess the Democrats don't like to win. | ||
| But thank you and have a great weekend. | ||
| 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. | ||
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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, can you tell us what agency or department you work for? | ||
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I work for the Veteran Affairs. | |
| I serve the veterans. | ||
| Have there been any layoffs in the VA? | ||
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Yes, yes. | |
| And we cannot afford any layoffs. | ||
| So Sherry, what are the job functions of those people that have been laid off? | ||
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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. | ||
| There's going to be inflation. | ||
| It's going to go high. | ||
| People are going to be unemployed. | ||
| This man, I give an F. All right, Sherry. | ||
| Got that. | ||
| And this is Mary Allen in Fort Washington, Maryland, who sent us a text. | ||
| This radical human being that claims he is president needs to be removed. | ||
| This country will be isolated. | ||
| We will be attacked again. | ||
| He needs to be removed swiftly, all lawful means necessary. | ||
| He's taking away people's livelihoods. | ||
| How long do you think people will tolerate that? | ||
| And this is James in Richmond, Virginia. | ||
| Trump's doing a wonderful job. | ||
| It's not layoffs, people. | ||
| It's called waste and fraud. | ||
| No one is 190 years old receiving a Social Security check, especially thousands of people. |