strength to our heartland ensuring that we are not strange it would seem to me red tape, small business administratione to play in that i am grateful to president trump for highlighting small businesses, there is no stronger support of small business than president trump. maria: you are right so much optimism at joint session of congress president highlighting small business optimism, here he is on tuesday night watch this. >> -- for the first time in more than history more americans believe our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction, small business optimism seeing largest one month gain ever recorded, 41 point jump. >> kelly your reaction, to that, we just had a small business owner on the show owns restaurants, and you know talking about prices and cost of everything. you vowed to take back fraudulent loans given out. give us a sense of how bad it was during the pandemic, because the sba is estimating more than 200 billion dollars worth of potentially fraudulent cash was issuing at that time can you claw it back? >> well, we are certainly going to work very hard everyday t

he's a vet who was recently fired from his job at the small business administration. s, you are an air force veteran. you spent about a decade as a military intelligence analyst, and you were recently fired from your job at the small business administration, not once, but twice. is that right? explain that. >> yes, ma'am. so first of all, thank you very much for having me. back in early february, as business was going on as usual at the small business administration, where here in minnesota, i was the deputy director of the minnesota district office. and one day, without any forewarning and certainly without any coordination with my supervisor or leadership that i was aware of, i received a letter saying that i had two weeks notice and that i was being fired for performance reasons. i knew very well that i was not having performance issues. i spoke to my supervisor. he had not conveyed any performance issues, but there it was, two weeks because of my probationary status. only two days later, i was in a management call with senior leadership at the agency and we were al

small business owner and a quint of omar i will han. i was the deputy director for the minnesota district of u.s. small business administration. i joined the air force straight out of high school and spent six years as an intelligence analyst and 10 years in national security and in kabul, afghanistan, i used the s.b.a. to write a business plan for the cleaning business. my dream was to one day help people start and run their own business and i have been very passionate about this work. so for the better part of eight months i have supported others at the agency that helped me when i came home from afghanistan. i know what it is like to be a veteran. i became a resource to help those people. and last month when i received an email saying i was fired because of my performance that is a lie. my termination was not based on performance. and i am now one of tens of thousands of federal workers wrongly terminated. i am here to speak up on behalf of all federal workers who are being treated like garbage and who are feeling scape goated. i am here to speak up for the people who lost their jobs if a lie. these are the folks that put l

small business owner. i'm from minnesota. constituents of congresswoman ill hunt no more. in july of 2024, i landed the job of a lifetime. deputy director for the minnesota district office of the u.s. small business administration. i joined the air force straight out of high school where i spent six years on active duty as an intelligence analyst. i spent almost 10 years in national security and in a tent in kabul, afghanistan, i used resources to write a business plan for a cleaning company to start a different life. the sba helped me get my cleaning business off the ground. my dream was to one day help people start and run their own business. and i have been very passionate about this work. for the better part of eight months, i've supported others at the agency that helped me when i came home from afghanistan. i know what it is like to be a veteran feeling like there aren't a lot of options in the world for us. i became a resource to help those people. until last month, when i received an email saying i was fired because of my performance. that is a lie. my termination was not based on performance. and i'm now one of tens of thousands of federal workers wrongly terminated. i'm here to speak up on behalf of a

stuart: still on education, the small business administration for student loans, it is a total mess. would the small business administration fix that? >> i was intrigued by this idea. they see a loan portfolio that actually the structure could be applied to student loans to improve it. we want to see more private lenders come into this space and sba loans are backed by the government, allows more flexibility for private lenders to give better and more clickable terms what they are tied to some purpose, some performance. i like the idea, something that should be explored but we need the private sector involved in student loans, the government cannot be the only lender of student loans contributed to the inflation in college going rates, got to fix it, the department of education is not placed to do it, could be treasury, could be sba. stuart: you've opened my eyes on schooling in florida. i did not know that. >> and 13 other states and growing. stuart: thank you for being with us. don't miss education secretary linda mcmahon today on kudlow on this network, fox business, right here at

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yeah, that would be brought into either treasury or small business administration or commerce . and we've actually had that discussion today. i don't think the education to be handling the loans that shot the business. i think it'll be brought into small business. maybe kelly really liked it and really would like to do it. so the lowest would be brought into a group when they really do that. you're listening to the us present. and donald trump speaking at the oval office and the white house and other one of those free wheeling question and answer sessions with the reporters, has been talking about everything from domestic politics, education, tariffs, to of issues of international news, whether it's garza ukraine and russia, war nato. let's go through the headlines with mike hannah who has more on this from washington dc. so mike, i have my notes, i know what i'm looking at here in terms of specifically in terms of gaza, ukraine and natal. i was wondering what stood out to you and maybe we can compare notes as well. uh, president trump, son, business about nato. he was aust direc

trump: that would be brought into either treasury or small business administration or commerce. and we've actually had that discussion today. i don't think the education should be handling the loans. that's not their business. i think it will be brought into small business. kelly really liked it and really would like to do it. so the loans would be brought into a group where they would do that. that is by the way the most complicated thing in moving. but it's very simple, if you do that. reporter: [indiscernible] -- pres. trump: out of gaza? i think that gaza's a mess. and i think that gaza could be good, i think it's got to be run properly. but right now gaza is an absolute mess and it has been for many, many years and decades. yeah, peter, did you have one more? reporter: [indiscernible] -- star liner astronauts -- [indiscernible] -- pres. trump: oh, yeah. they left them alone. biden left them up there. i know everything about it. i said we have two astronauts that are stuck in space. i have asked elon, i said, do me a favor, can you get them out me? said, yes. he's preparing

companies's bottom line, not clear if they will make price increases, the head of the small business administration marks an opportunity for a fundamental shift from external to internal. >> there are going to be a million jobs available within the small business manufacturers. it will strengthen supply chains and national security, we know china is ready to engage in any kind of war and we need to bring those supply chains back and strengthen our main street, this is a great opportunity for rural america. >> reporter: donald trump says that we know tariffs for any products made in the united states but you heard the headlines, howard lutnick saying this extension could expand to all items under usmca and that announcement could be later today. stuart: that has affected the market, bottom right-hand corner of the screen the dow is down 260 points. a few moments ago the dow was down 500 points. the news on tariffs is helping the market come back a little. the mayor of alberta, danielle smith, joins me now. you were a big trump support, you went to mar-a-lago, are you still a trump supported? >> i am

with like inof cthey made a people in them of covid plums designed to be giveink n to small business administration't make sense.e transparency is a good thing anv i don't think that should be controversial whether republican or democrat. payerserve to see how tax dollars are beinering spent hero i think what we are discovering, laura, a lot of people in the administrative state ot f bureay have been spending our money, that takes payer money as a private piggy bank or pet causes. thankfully needs to end. but what we are also seen,e lo laura, not just democracy. the top two things. that comes out of doge for thees long run, it will restorepons accountability to congress.es e people in both parties responsible for giving wafts of money handed out throughat i the graft that is democracy. this is a good development with a level of transparency and the taxpayers deserve better. a finally, they are beginning to actually get it. us >> laura: well, vivek, talk to us about these protest popping up across the country. we will get to the protest,po nastp-y stuff at the tesla dealerships they are to put on th

people submitting social security numbers for social security benefits, unemployment, small business administrationial security numbers or they stole somebody else's social security number and we are trying to put a stop to that. stuart: a lot of people are concerned that musk and trump are going after social security. are you worried about that? >> what we are focused on doing is rooting out every penny of waste, fraud, and abuse from social security, medicare, and medicaid and assuring that they are going to get every penny that they are entitled to and getting rid of these fake social security numbers, individuals that are one hundred 50 years old that are getting checks and making certain that people that have been defrauding social security, medicare, and medicaid and depriving enrollees of timely response and timely access. all of these individuals that are defrauding the system need to be prosecuted, the money should be returned. stuart: got it. senator marsha blackburn, thank you for joining us. always appreciate it. harvard and mit are imposing a hiring freeze after trump's threat to withh

why were hundreds million dollar small business administration loans given to people age 11 and underricing 8 year -- enterprising 8-year-old. larry: and strong 150-year-olds. >> yes, as president said, we have an enormous number of people marked as alive who are 160, he it not know the country that was healthy. larry: demistify this, how do you do this? how big is your team? where did you recruit most from? what makes you choose the treasury or social security or usaid, how does that work? >> well we just follow the money, we look at president's executive orders, and we also follow the money. we started to look at usaid, because, they were violating president's executive orders to suspend foreign aid. you know what is called foreign aid in our view is corruption. so, we saw there was just tremendous amount of money sent to nongovernmental organizations. but it is -- this i think is a big source of fraud, government funded, nongovernment at organizations. that is a huge fraud loophole, government can give money to an ngo, and there are no controls over that ngo, they have given billio

briefing house republicans entrÉe into effort to cut government waste the head of the small business administrationkelly loeffler is here on not in the impact of tariffs on small businesses. during the conversation all morning long strategy group managing director job raleigh kingsville asset management partner and the washington examiner columnist tiana lowe doescher is here. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ >> we kick it off with a hot topic of the hour vice president jd vance taking a victory lap on the border with the visit to eagle pass texas defense secretary pete hegseth and the national intelligence tulsi gabbard joining pete hegseth they all spoke to the progress made on the border so far. >> it turns out we do not need new laws or fancy legislation we need to do new president of the united states and thank god that's what we have. >> the defense department has assets we can bring to bear not just troops or surveillance or equipment but actual planning and capabilities that enhance what border patrol is already doing. >> our mission is very clear our objective to keep the america

artificial programs likely made up people in the form of code loans designed to be given to the small business administration think transparency is a good thing. i don't think that should be controversial. whether you are a republican or a democrat. you deserve to see how your taxpayer dollars are being spent. and i think what we're discovering, laura, is that a lot of people in the administrative state, in that bureaucracy, have been spending our money, that taxpayer money as if it's their private piggy bank for their pet causes and thankfully needs to end. but we're also seeing, laura, it's not just the bureaucracy. this is going to be one of the top two things that i think comes out of doge for the long run. it's going to restore accountability to congress. because, frankly, there is people in both parties that have been responsible for giving these vast swathes of money to be handed out through the grift that is that bureaucracy. i think this is a good development. we should continue to see this level of trearches. our taxpayers deserve better finally they are just beginning to actually get it. >> laura:

. >> that will be brought into by the treasury or small business administration or commerce and we actuallythat discussion today. >> i don't think that education should be handling the loans is not their business. >> is exactly right back in the first termer we talked about the student loan portfolio about 1.7 trillion into the treasury department the federal financing bank which has workout experts to do this kind of thing there is nobody in the education department with the exception of yourself who knows anything about an income statement or balance sheet you are probably the only one he knew cannot do all the paperwork. >> i meeting with compass on monday we had a preliminary conversation already in a don't think it should be in the department of education. it's not a bank and the treasury has an ability with services several agencies across the government and it could be the best place to be. >> while you're waiting for congress to back you up and make structural changes to the will education department which is failed so miserably is such a good entry giveaway to the education. >> can

trump: that would be brought into either treasury or small business administration or commerce. we have actually had that discussion today. i don't think education should be handling the loans, that's not their business. i think it will be brought into small business maybe. kelly really liked it and really would like to do. so the loans would be brought into a group where they really do that. that is by the way the most complicated thing, but it's very simple if you do that. >> -- plans to move more than 200 people out. what's your reaction to that? pres. trump: out of gaza? i think gaza is a mess and i think gaza could be good. i think it's got to be run properly. but right now gaza is an absolute mess and has been for many years and decades. >> the two starliner that would be for eight months. pres. trump: oh, yeah. they left them alone. biden left them up there. >> what do you know about that? pres. trump: i know everything about it. we have two astronauts that are stuck in space. i have asked elon, i said, do me a favor, can you get them out me? he said, yes. he's preparing

small business administrator kelly announced that the... nctuary cities but after the mess left behind by the previous administration still a lot of work left to do. according to a new report illegals are cloning border patrol vehicles in an attempt to bypass president trump's porter crackdown. director of national intelligence tulsi gabbard said almost 100 terra linked illegals that they knew were terra linked were released into the u.s. in 2020 for a loan to. in her visit to new york secretary noam announced on x a detainer to take into custody the illegal has set a woman on fire at a subway station in brooklyn, new york, because of sanctuary city status department of corrections will not honor that detainer. so they won't abide by it what happens next? >> pam bondi suits them we take him to court. you want to get away if we have to sit outside the jail everyday 24/7. because new york city or any other sanctuary city won't stop i.c.e. from keeping president trump's promised to eradicate every criminal alien every public -- public that ille

he was a deputy director at the small business administration at the minnesota district office. that was his dream job, he said. and also with us, a 20 year army veteran, adam mulvey. he worked at a chicago federal health center as an emergency management specialist who developed safety plans. alexandria, i want to start with you. you guys were just sitting here. you were introducing yourselves to each other, realizing you both worked for the va. um, tell us about what it's been like to be on the receiving end of these doge cuts and also be on the receiving end of the kind of vitriol, including some, frankly, that we heard from the president tonight in his speech. >> oh, well, yes, ma'am. i want to say, first and foremost, it's the honor of being here. thank you all for having me. um, those cuts were taken very personal for me because, yes, i am a military veteran. but also on the receiving end of also working the same job that i did in the army as a 92 yankee, which is a supply technician. i also gave that, uh, you know, that etiquette of logistics world and five plus years of

at the small business administration, employees received emails notifying them of their terminations.on monday, another email said the initial notices were a mistake. then on tuesday, they got a third email confirming their firings. that's an emotional roller coaster ride. "honey, i'm leaving you." "darling, i would never leave without my umbrella!" [cheers and applause] elon and the d.o.g.e. bags have fired so many people so quickly, in so many critical areas, with so little thought beforehand, that the government is now scrambling to rehire the nuclear staff it fired on friday. these are folks involved with designing, building, and overseeing the u.s. nuclear weapons stockpile, after concerns grew that their dismissal could jeopardize nationa security. i share those concerns. but here's the wrinkle and the rub: the government has struggled to reach the people that were fired after they were locked out of their federal email accounts. so now we got a bunch of pissed off people with a lot of time on their hands who know how to build nuclear weapons. well, at least you couldn't find th

>> president trump: that would be brought into either treasury for small business administration or commerce. and we have actually had that discussion today. i don't think the education should be handling the loans it is not their business. i think it will be brought into small business really liked it and would like to do it. so the loans would be brought into a group and i think that is by the way the most complicated thing in moving but it is very simple if you do that. >> branch rejected your plan... what should we option to them... >> president trump: of golazo? i think that gaza is a mess and i think that gaza could be good, it has to be run properly, but right now gaza is an absolute mess and it has been for many, many years. peter, did you have one more? >> i did. starliner astronauts stuck in space for eight months. >> president trump: biden left them up there. >> what will you do what do you know about that a? >> president trump: i know everything about that. to astronauts stuck in space i have asked elon musk i said to me a favor can you get them out to? he said yes. i think he is

now, the deadline for businesses to apply for aid through the small business administration.lso been extended until march 31st. >> more rain on the way to southern california, expected to arrive tomorrow for us. it's going to be on wednesday, and once we get started, it will be on and off. it looks like all the way through sunday, giving you a live look here over the golden gate bridge. little tough to see it this morning. it's a dark start. we have still almost a couple hours or so until the official sunrise. patchy fog out there, but visibility? not a problem, as you can see here from the screen. and our winds are generally light this morning. sfo and san jose reporting five miles per hour. hayward six were calm at half moon bay as well as mountain view. how about the temps? just as cold as yesterday morning. upper 30s to start the morning. santa rosa, novato, closer to the bay. we've got 46 outside your door. oakland. last half hour we went to the north bay. let's go east. we have 37 in lafayette, as well as orinda and 39 for you. castro valley, getting into the afternoon.

chris wicker, he was a deputy director at the small business administration at the minnesota district office. that was his dream job, he said. and also with us, a 20 year army veteran, adam mulvey. he worked at a chicago federal health center as an emergency management specialist who developed safety plans. alexandria, i want to start with you. as you guys were just sitting here, you were introducing yourselves to each other, realizing you both worked for the va. um, tell us about what it's been like to be on the receiving end of these doge cuts and also be on the receiving end of the kind of vitriol, including some, frankly, that we heard from the president tonight in his speech. >> oh. >> well, yes, ma'am. i want. >> to say, first and foremost, it's an honor being here. thank you all for having me. um, those cuts were taken very personal for me because, yes, i am a military veteran. but also on that receiving end of also working the same job that i did in the army as a 92 yankee, which is a supply technician. i also gave that, uh, you know, the etiquette of logistics world in five p

and in his first term, president trump tapped lindsay mcmahon to lead the small business administration where she was known for listening to small businesses to make the sba a more effective agency. she will bring valuable experience and incredible work ethic, and a passion for education, to her new role leading the department of education. mr. president, she has a big task ahead of her. let's acknowledge that. in january, the nation's report card revealed american students are still struggling to make up ground lost during the pandemic. reading scores among fourth and eighth graders declined again. after falling in 2022 and 2019. one third of eighth graders are reading below a basic level, the highest proportion ever recorded. math scores showed modest improvement, but still remain below pre-pandemic levels. and there's a widening gap in student performance. mr. president, this should concern all of us. as the son of two public school educators and father of two daughters who went to public schools, i know this problem isn't going to be fixed by washington bureaucrats. it's going to be

mcmahon led the small business administration during trump's first term.lso happening today, first lady melania trump is expected to host a senate round table on capitol hill for the first time since president trump's second term began. she'll be highlighting the take it down act which aims to protect americans targeted by nonconsensual intimate imagery that could be ai generated. social media companies putting procedures in place to remove these ai generated images that resemble real people. the bill has been passed in the senate but not the house just yet. and today marks the 56th anniversary of the navy's top gun program. top gun is the united states navy's strike fighter tactic instructor program and teaches naval pilots how to maneuver in aerial combat, led to the 1986 film top gun. >> gentlemen, you are the top 1% of all knave aviators. the elite, best of the best. we'll make you better. >> and the original movie, of course, inspired a 2022 sequel top gun maverick. >> come on, can you do it. don't think, just do. [exhale] not that fast. >> that's it.

she was small business administrator during donald trump's first term. new role she is expected to dismantle the department itself. the education secretary post was one of the final cabinet positions left to fill. pope francis suffered a new breathing crisis today. the vatican says the 88-year-old pontiff was put back on noninvasive mechanical ventilation after suffering two new episodes of acute respiratory failure. pope francis has been in a rome hospital since february 14. the vatican says he remained alert and cooperated with medical personnel today, but that his outlook remains guarded. this has been his longest absence from public life in his 12-year papacy. in the middle east, cease-fire negotiations between israel and hamas are at a standstill after phase one of the truce expired over the weekend. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is pushing for what he says is a u.s.backed plan that would extend the cease-fire through ramadan and passover. but hamas accused israel of trying to sabotage the existing agreement after it halted all food, fue

. >> small business administration loans. and. medical where those are, those are those are fake social security numbers. they're they're stolen somebody's else's social security number. and we're trying to put a stop to all of that. and that's the number which is estimated. >> to be on the order of 10%. >> of federal expenditures. >> if it was that easy. >> it was. >> that social security number. there would be a black market and. >> there'd be a black, blue, red, white and blue market on this. >> okay, joe, everybody and juan would all be getting rich. >> every last. >> one of them would be rich, would be a multicultural grab bag. >> i'd have look, i'd have an operation in the back behind me and said. >> no, you wouldn't, because you would be illegal. michael steele. >> but that's the point. how does he know that when doge has been on the ground doing this for how long and doing it improperly and incorrectly? >> michael, they're. >> at a spreadsheet. >> at. >> a computer? yes. >> it's true, they had a spreadsheet. >> but also. >

it's easy to see this expand to the small business administration and the fcc and so forth. as a former leak hunter, good luck with that. >> okay. leak hunter say more. what's involved? how complicated is it? >> well, it's complicated because you have so many people who could be leaking any detail. when i was at the rnc, we had a consistent leak on a thing that we did not find out who leaked it until after the chairman had left, when all the cell phones were turned in and somebody found a voicemail. it took me 12 years to serve that revenge, but i found that out out of pure luck. and i will say it was fantastic to serve that cold dish of revenge. >> okay, i also want to mention this one other reference of leakers. former defense secretary mark esper. he was saying the president was the biggest leaker of all. it turned colleague against colleague department against a department, and was generally bad for the administration and the country. alex, can i ask you, since you're pro league, is this trump administration does feel different, though from the first one. even his relati

trillion debt portfolio that trump says they would transfer to the treasury department or the small business administration. but staffers at the federal student aid office tell me that they're already having a really hard time trying to get these borrowers to pay these borrowers who don't have affordable repayment plans now and have not had to pay on their loans for the last several years. they argue that the best way to collect on those loans is to introduce some of these more affordable payment plans, but conservatives have a different idea. they believe that the government should get out of the business of making new loans entirely, and instead have a new agency that makes those loans. they say that this new private sector backed entity would treat taxpayers more like investors. here's what the heritage foundation, author of that chapter in project 2025, told me. >> so undergrad experience typically isn't always preparing students to do well in the workforce. and so a big part of that is the federal lending program, where right now, the federal government, underwritten by the u.s. taxpayer, is providing

. >> assistant director for the small business administration.rking really. >> hard and feels. >> that devastation of the refugee. >> resettlement program. because he has. >> colleagues that have. >> been left behind. >> after we. >> withdraw from afghanistan, who are now considered as traitors in in their. country and their lives are at risk if we do not provide the help. that they provided to us. >> one of the things that i just mentioned, the 80% statistic, and you were telling me before we came on air here that there are a huge number of federal workers in minnesota. yeah. tell me, how many and what are they doing there? >> in minnesota, we. have about 35,000 federal employees. >> these are. >> the people. when you. >> visit your social security office. >> those are the federal workers. >> when you go to renew your passport. >> those are federal employees. >> when you go to national. >> parks. >> those are federal employees. and i think. >> oftentimes and. >> why it is so. >> important for us to bring some. of these fired federal employees. >

former ceo of wwe pro wrestling, and in trump's first term, she served as the head of the small business administrationew post in the department of education, trump had this to say about mcmahon. >> linda mcmahon is going to be our future secretary of education, which we're going to be giving back to the states. let the state run education. i said, linda, i'm making you the secretary of education. but if you do a great job, you will put yourself out of a job because you're going to be sending it back to the states. and she's fantastic. >> the maga messaging around overhauling the department of education has emphasized parental choice, getting woke ideology out of schools and putting decisions about what students learn in the hands of parents and localities. but here's the thing. >> the education. >> department itself doesn't actually determine school curricula, nor does it determine what gets taught in classrooms. states and local school districts already have that authority. so what exactly does the department of education do, and what is mcmahon going to dismantle? well, the department of education h

that just yesterday, trying to figure out would that go to treasury, would it go to the small business administration? but the biggest question is will the government stay in the business of making loans directly to students, as it's done for the last 15 years, without a great record of getting them to pay those loans back? 40% of that $1.7 trillion represents a delinquent loan. so it's a terrible, terrible return on investment. or will they turn that over to the private sector and have a new agency that oversees that? in the meantime? jake, you know, the staff ranks are thinning. you've had about a quarter of the federal student aid workers taking one of the buyout options. we're hearing that layoffs could hit up to 50% of the remaining workers. and this is all just weeks before students get their aid packages for the coming academic year. >> all right. david and kayla, thanks so much. good to see both of you. we have some breaking news for you. now that law and justice lead sources are telling cnn that the justice department just put two new york prosecutors on leave. the prosecutors worked on the

she also previously led the small business administration during trump's first term. and these are live pictures of new orleans, where the threat of severe weather could dampen fat tuesday celebrations. the city is expected to get hit with severe thunderstorms and powerful winds, with gusts topping 50 miles an hour. the two main parades will roll early and with pared down processions. analysts are predicting a weaker economy for north america in light of new tariff war between the u.s., canada and mexico. donald trump announced 25% duties on canadian and mexican imports. the president says the neighboring countries are taking economic advantage of the u.s., especially in certain industries. >> i would just say this to people in canada or mexico, if they're going to build car plants, the people that are doing them are much better off building here because we have the market. we're the market where they sell the most. and so i think it's going to be very exciting, very exciting for the automobile companies. >> we will. >> have a strong. unequivocal and. >> proportional

why were hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars of small business administration loans were given out to people aged 11 and under? according to the according to the social security? >> that's musk in his own words. so let's fact check those claims. cnn's senior reporter, daniel dale is here. daniel, a lot of claims about fraud. take us through them. >> a lot of claims. so let's start with the social security one, because i think it's a good example of how these very large number that mr. musk and president trump are using in terms of waste and fraud in the federal government are based on what we can generously call misunderstandings. maybe you could use a harsher word. so we do know there is a well known issue documented by the federal government of people being listed as alive in a social security database, even though they are deceased. but what they don't mention is that this does not mean all of those people, or even many of those people, are actually receiving social security benefits. so, for example, the social security inspector general looked into this, for a 2022 2023 re

but chris was the assistant director of the small business administration. this was somebody who was trying to make sure small business entrepreneurs were getting the resources that they needed in order to make an impact in their communities. >> and we'll see what that message looks like tomorrow night on the tariffs. we were talking about this this because they go into effect at midnight. trump says there's no way for canada and mexico to kind of get the talk their way out of it or anything like that. your state, when it comes to canada, is one of the largest trading partners and imports $14.4 billion worth of goods. what is the impact going to look like on that? >> i mean, it's in in totality, it's about $22 billion trade for for minnesota. >> with canada. >> with canada. just in my own district over $600 million. >> so with 25% tariffs what does that do. >> that that is going to have impact on our farmers. that's going to have impact on multiple industries. that might mean the closing of refineries. it might mean the shutting down of different plants. tha

tulsi gabbard, the new director of national intelligence, kelly loeffler, the small business administrator. and, you know, they're just chatting in the in the chamber. they're on their way down. they're running a little behind. >> there's linda mcmahon, the department of education secretary. it has been and i think, you know, majority leader thune, who we saw earlier today, takes some of the credit here for getting these cabinet members through in such a timely manner. when president trump chose these people, there was all this backlash. and, oh, these these people will never get confirmed. but this is a president who won all of the swing states and won the popular vote. and it's really unprecedented to imagine that he wouldn't get the cabinet that he wanted. and this is a night for them to assemble as a group as well as they listen to what the president has laid out for them. you know, dana, as we wait for this, we expect any moment the president is going to walk in. but a quick thought on this issue of tariffs, which we brought up before, because this is a rocky it's a rocky issue for hi

tulsi gabbard, the small business administrator. they are just chatting in the chamber there on their way down. they are running a little behind >> there is linda mcmahon, the department of education secretary. has been and majority leader thune who we saw earlier today, takes some of the credit for getting these cabinet members through in such a timely matter. when president trump chose these people there was all this backlash and these people will never get confirmed but this is a president who won all the swing states and won the popular vote and it's really unprecedented to imagine that he wouldn't get the cabinet that he wanted. this is a night for them to assemble as a group as well and they listen to what the president has laid out for them. we expect any moment the president is going to walk in. a quick thought on this issue of tariffs. this is a rocky issue for him to grapple with. >> i think the sequencing was off. i feel -- i know president trump has talked about tariffs a lot but mainly when he talked to a broad audience

i have a bill that would cause the irs to share data with the small business administration and the department of justice that was show that you were ineligible for those loans and you got the. i think that would save $100 billion. you think we should go back and take money away from fraudulently getting covid money? >> during the pandemic, that program was a virtual buffet for fraudsters. it was because of the 1974 privacy act. congress needs to change that. >> we can do it retroactively. we can find the people that stole this money and hold them accountable. i already have that bill filed. it would probably get $100 billion. that has been proven in missouri. it does work. that is $200 billion. we should have a competition on this committee. i have $300 billion in savings proposed. we have such a massive problem right now. i would ask my colleagues across the aisle to get out of the way if you do not want to help. stop filing lawsuit after lawsuit. we do not have the financial ability to continue down this path. we will save this country with or without you. thank you. >> i now recognize the

the deadline for businesses to apply for aid through the small business administration. that's also been extended until march 31st. >> time now is 714. what one woman calls a false accusation born of racial profiling is being called a misunderstanding by a manager at a pilates studio on the peninsula. the interaction was recorded, has been viewed on tiktok millions of times. andre senior is back in studio to share what happened and how the owner of the studio, andre, is trying to make good. >> all right, well, gasia sydney ledet says it was her first time working out at hot works in belmont. she left, planning to return to become a member, but she changed her mind after she says she received multiple texts from the studio manager accusing her of stealing another patron's diamond ring from their locker. now, she says, text messages sent to her by manager neil lundy, the third accused her of being captured on camera stealing that ring. she says he told her she was the only one who had been seen in the footage, and that the theft was a felony, that they wanted to see the fo

illegal immigrant with a warrant out for arrest was receiving $400,000 in loans from the small business administration but the waste and abuse of tax dollars goes beyond mere inefficiencies. some of the other line items on the doge cutting floor are so patently absurd, it would make your blood boil. for example, last week the national institutes of health canceled more than a half a billion dollars for grants for transgender experiments on mice. you can't make this stuff up. it's stranger than fiction. in a similar vain, nih also canceled millions in woke grants ranging from promoting healthy relationships among transgender utsz to -- youth to delivering transgender services via telehealth, i think if you asked taxpayers how they would want their money spent, this would not make the cut. but that's not all. nih is also canceling research grants that were going to universities in china. they canceled a grant for $1.7 million going to the peking university for the, quote, retirement health and lodngitudl study. i think taxpayers would prefer to focus on things at home rather than sending millions of dol