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the revolving door between usaid employees and ngos that receive usaid funding is undeniable.should consider investigating whether it usaid funding has made it back to democrat campaigns. affected elections. the real question the american people deserve to know answers to our these. why are we funding nine out of 10 news outlets in ukraine? why it was former usaid administrator samantha power visiting hungary for the purpose of strengthening democratic institutions went hungry as the country that strongly democratic and members of the eu and nato. white was usaid company finding joint programs with george soros open society to promote radical social agendas throughout the developing world. involved in the canceling and romaine it was usaid funding court changes in albania that resultedcu in the prosecution of the albanian opposition leader. why is usaid funding censorship laws in brazil why is usaid involved in funding the civil war? what we have learned here today is usaid has been used as a tool by democrats to brainwash the worldag was a globalist propagaa regime changes ar
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with respect to usaid, i think there are ways in which we can make usaid, and i certainly hope that the next iteration of usaid it is more strategic. for example this hearing has focused quite a bit on panama. we closed our -- mr. turner: i hate to cut you off. but when we are making those investments to the western hemisphere, if we cut them, i think we are sending the wrong signal to the p.r.c. they then step in. thank you, mr. chairman. chair gimenez: thank you the gentleman from texas, i recognize the gentleman from arizona, mr. crane. mr. crane: thank you, mr. chairman, for holding this hearing today. i want to take a minute to talk really quickly about something that mrs. mciver brought up. she was talking about the influence that china had on elon musk. it's interesting i didn't hear mrs. mciver or any of her democrat colleagues raising these same concerns when we uncovered that the biden family received $27 million from foreign countries. and they tried the exact same thing with president trump in the last congress. the reason i think it's important to point this out is the inte
with respect to usaid, i think there are ways in which we can make usaid, and i certainly hope that the next iteration of usaid it is more strategic. for example this hearing has focused quite a bit on panama. we closed our -- mr. turner: i hate to cut you off. but when we are making those investments to the western hemisphere, if we cut them, i think we are sending the wrong signal to the p.r.c. they then step in. thank you, mr. chairman. chair gimenez: thank you the gentleman from texas, i...
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world vision, save the children, care, and because this shutdown was combined with a gag order to usaid staff, the furloughing or laying off of all the core headquarters staff and much of the field staff, now that secretary rubio has begun signing lots of humanitarian waivers, they're not effective. the money is not flowing. the programs aren't being restarted, and literally tens of thousands of u.s. headquarters staff and foreign national staff for all the groups i just mentioned are being laid off so that's why the urgent conversation in the hallway, and that's why this balance of soft power and smart power, soft power and hard power, which in combination leads to smart power is a real urgent concern and -- >> to be clear, it's not just aid workers being laid off, but i think there was a case where people are dying. >> yes. >> so a federal judge last week ordered the trump administration to restore funding for foreign aid contractors. you know, is the way that this ends in the courts, or is there a political solution, something i think politico has reported is there are republicans wh
world vision, save the children, care, and because this shutdown was combined with a gag order to usaid staff, the furloughing or laying off of all the core headquarters staff and much of the field staff, now that secretary rubio has begun signing lots of humanitarian waivers, they're not effective. the money is not flowing. the programs aren't being restarted, and literally tens of thousands of u.s. headquarters staff and foreign national staff for all the groups i just mentioned are being...
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the usaid case is this. supreme court is weighing in on a trump 2.0 lawsuit. what do you make of this? chief justice roberts, temporarily pausing a federal judge's ruling to unfreeze billions of dollars owed to usaid contractors. and when do you think the supreme court will rule? >> well, it's clearly. >> dealing with this case. >> on a very fast track. interestingly, it is a case that began. >> on the first. >> day of trump's new term as president. on that very day, he did what he promised he was going to do before he said, i will be a dictator on day one. and the first thing he did as a dictator was basically to erase what congress had said should be spent in foreign aid, and much of which had already been committed with projects that had been finished around the world, a couple of billion dollars. and what he said was, i'm not bound by congress. it may have the power of the purse, but i have the power of the sword, and i'm going to cut right through all of the congressional commitment. that led to a flurr
the usaid case is this. supreme court is weighing in on a trump 2.0 lawsuit. what do you make of this? chief justice roberts, temporarily pausing a federal judge's ruling to unfreeze billions of dollars owed to usaid contractors. and when do you think the supreme court will rule? >> well, it's clearly. >> dealing with this case. >> on a very fast track. interestingly, it is a case that began. >> on the first. >> day of trump's new term as president. on that very...
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. >> current and former usaid employees. urged a federal judge.to find that elon musk and. >> doj's very operations. >> are unconstitutional. >> their attorney said. >> during the hearing, quote. >> this is a made up super. >> agency with someone occupying a made up position. now, the democratic party entered the fray today. >> with its first. >> federal lawsuit of trump's. second term, arguing that trump's power grab over the bipartisan federal election commission violates federal election law. the executive order purports to provide president trump, the leader of the republican party. >> with the ability. >> to order the. fec to. >> take particular positions. >> on any question of law arising. >> in the commission's performance of any of its duties. >> the lawsuit states. meanwhile, the supreme court has not yet decided whether to uphold the federal judge's order, forcing the trump administration to pay more than. >> $2 billion. >> to usaid contractors. >> who completed. >> their often. >> life saving work weeks ago. the trump. >> administration
. >> current and former usaid employees. urged a federal judge.to find that elon musk and. >> doj's very operations. >> are unconstitutional. >> their attorney said. >> during the hearing, quote. >> this is a made up super. >> agency with someone occupying a made up position. now, the democratic party entered the fray today. >> with its first. >> federal lawsuit of trump's. second term, arguing that trump's power grab over the bipartisan...
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think of usaid, the agency that's been in the most news. usaid, there's a lot of contracts. they put out a list that sounded, frankly, pretty silly. um, however, what are their big contracts? their big contracts are with american farmers who sell rice, soybeans and wheat to the u.s. government for people in famine situations around the world now. um, there's farmers who are mad about this and there's people who are starving. did we really mean to cut those contracts? so looking into this contract thing, which i believe should be done, by the way, um, again, needs to be done agency by agency. and we put some thought to it. there's no thought being done here. >> yeah. $1 trillion cut by 2026 is a lot of work, a lot of cutting. and we heard ssa is up on the list next. elaine kamarck, thanks so much for being with us. we'll take a quick break. we'll be back. >> amid upheaval and. >> sweeping changes. >> the president. >> of the united states. >> trump heads. >> to. >> capitol hill. >> to share what's next. follow cnn for complete coverage. and in-depth analysis. >> of the. presi
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we had a long conversation today about how he said he was going to kill usaid.personally involved. and then several days later, he said, i spent the week and we spent the weekend feeding usaid into the woodchipper. could have gone to some great parties. let me tell you, it was no party for the thousands of men and women of usaid who represent america's interests around the world. you can't do that under the constitution. and that was the case we made today. he has no power to do that. >> did you get a ruling yet from the bench, from the judge in this case? >> both sides got tough, smart questions from the judge. we thought we had the better answers. we don't have the ruling yet. he's taking it under advisement and we are working on it. >> you know, norm, you guys got a good victory yesterday at a federal court in california. a federal judge ruling in your favor, stating that the trump administration's firing of thousands of probationary employees was illegal and should be stopped. i mean, there are a few judges that have ruled to allow the administration to cont
we had a long conversation today about how he said he was going to kill usaid.personally involved. and then several days later, he said, i spent the week and we spent the weekend feeding usaid into the woodchipper. could have gone to some great parties. let me tell you, it was no party for the thousands of men and women of usaid who represent america's interests around the world. you can't do that under the constitution. and that was the case we made today. he has no power to do that. >>...
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come into usaid. headquarters and retrieve. >> their belongings. >> from their offices. >> while they were doing. >> that, people showed up in big numbers. >> to support. >> them and clap for them and. >> to say thank you. >> woo! oh, there's so many emotions. i already cried this morning when i arrived. you know, someone said, you know, thanks for being here. and i just burst into tears. >> yeah. thank you. >> we're here. we thank you. this is not happening in the dark. >> that was washington. >> d.c. today. >> as people. showed up. >> to support. and thank. usaid workers. >> who the trump administration is trying. >> to fire. >> as. >> they try. >> to. >> shut down that agency. >> even though they pretty clearly. >> are just legally. >> not allowed to. >> do that. >> people turning. >> out to protest. >> but. >> also support. >> the people who. >> are at. >> the sharp. >> end of this stick. >> one of the tools. >> the trump administration has been using to. >> try. >> to destroy. >> usaid and. >> to
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while he says some projects appear to be legitimate and have to be funded, he took aim at usaid and nonifovernmental organizations, calling the latter a scam. this week more usaid workers cleared their desks as the trump administration moves to dismantle the agency. >> the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy. the empathy exploit. they're -- they're exploiting a bug in western civilization. >> reporter: doge is the subject of a number of lawsuits, some concerning its access, authority and transpart city. -- transparency. a federal judge is ordering officials connected to doge to testify in court over its efforts to rehappy the federal government. musk says they provide recommendations to different departments. >> cuts that doge recommends to the department, and usually these recommendations are followed. but these are recommendations that are then confirmed by the department. >> reporter: musk says doge has saved taxpayers billions of dollars, but some of the biggest items in the federal budget include federal programs like medicare and social security which musk has sl
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he's called usaid a criminal organization. he talked about it's a radical left political psyop to you. what is the importance of usaid and the u.s. giving aid to people in need around the world? >> well, usaid, uh, plays a super important role in dispensing our aid budget, which is less than 1% of the government budget overall. uh, it's work that saves millions of lives and you know, helps strengthen relationships for the united states. and i'm not, you know, against some degree of tuning, but, you know, having all those people, uh, not come in to work and characterizing the whole thing, uh, in a negative way. i'm a little disappointed in that. >> well, gates is focusing on his global philanthropic efforts. microsoft, the company he co-founded, is focusing on artificial intelligence. >> the a.i. is becoming more accurate, but this is the most profound technical advance in my lifetime. it is greater than, you know, chip's personal computers. really bigger than internet, bigger than all those things. because it's degree of match
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this week more usaid workers cleared their desks as trump administration moves to dismantle the industryntal weakness of >> these are cuts that doge recommends to the department and usually they're folled. reporter: doge saved taxpayers billions and some of the items include federal programs like medicare and social security, which musk slammed. >> social security is the biggest ponzi scheme and more people are retired and life-threatening for a long time and get retirement payments and less babies being born. reporter: trump said he'll not touch medicare, medicaid and social security and that issue is at the forefront of congress and republicans work on a bill that will help cut spending and enact the president's agenda. in washington, madeleine rivera, fox news. ♪ ♪ gee wee: we hit the streets to find out what you did last week in the talk of the town. >> five things you've done last week? >> last -- do a lot of things. five things. >> e-mails. >> i ate my lunch. >> teach kids, provide access. >> reporting documentation and number crunching. >> make the schedule and make sure you're on
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and you you've seen that, for example, with usaid, there were enormous abuses there that enraged therican people. but at the secretary of state, under marco rubio's leadership, they're going through literally with a with a line by line on the the line items of usaid. and they're giving waivers for the programs that do need to be continued. for example, the things that confront the chinese aggression around the world. those are the kinds of efforts you're going to see in every agency of the federal government. and that is a great thing for american taxpayers and for the future of our country. >> as we learn more about about this, beyond what we're hearing from the federal employees who are who are getting fired, i would love for you to come back and talk more about it. as we get more transparency, which i do hope that we get along with you. mr. speaker. thank you for being here. >> thanks so much. thanks for having me. >> my next guest asked president zelenskyy to leave the white house on friday. but what does the president want from ukraine's leader now? national security adviser mik
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take, for instance, the usaid budget. to put out what they're describing as a clean, continuing resolution, that would include funding for usaid. if donald trump is just going to say, we're not spending that money. why would democrats vote yes for that? and i think that's part of the negotiations that are happening behind closed doors. and one of the reasons that we could be barreling toward a government shutdown here in a little more than a week. >> all right, ryan, thank you very much. joining us now is the top democrat on the house budget committee, congressman brendan boyle of pennsylvania. so are you planning on getting on board with a funding deal that the republicans proposed? >> well. >> first, as of this moment, there is no funding deal that republicans have proposed. they have walked away from the table. you know, it reminds me of when i was here eight years ago and donald trump was first elected. we had a republican house, a republican senate, and donald trump in the white house, ■and e ended up having a 37 day
take, for instance, the usaid budget. to put out what they're describing as a clean, continuing resolution, that would include funding for usaid. if donald trump is just going to say, we're not spending that money. why would democrats vote yes for that? and i think that's part of the negotiations that are happening behind closed doors. and one of the reasons that we could be barreling toward a government shutdown here in a little more than a week. >> all right, ryan, thank you very much....
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since elon musk got into this thing and he got into usaid, it turns out usaid is paying for 6200 journalists770 news outlets. jamie raskin's company took $160 million of usaid money just in 2023 alone. sheldon whitehouse's wife got $12 million from usaid money because she has some kind of ocean research company that is just a fraud. they gave $2 billion from climate money to that woman in georgia who ran for governor, stacey abrams. $2 billion. and here's another crazy thing you are not going to hear on the news. our government said fema had no money for those people in hawaii when they were burned out. they didn't have any money for the people in ohio. they didn't have any money for hurricane victims in florida or north carolina but in the time that those things were going on they handed out one $1 billion to illegal aliens, including the roosevelt hotel which is owned by the pakistani government. i have no faith in the media. alec soros and his father just bought hundreds of radio stations, and c-span, you guys are about ready to put a traitor on the air at 9:00, alexander vindman. he leak
since elon musk got into this thing and he got into usaid, it turns out usaid is paying for 6200 journalists770 news outlets. jamie raskin's company took $160 million of usaid money just in 2023 alone. sheldon whitehouse's wife got $12 million from usaid money because she has some kind of ocean research company that is just a fraud. they gave $2 billion from climate money to that woman in georgia who ran for governor, stacey abrams. $2 billion. and here's another crazy thing you are not going...
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since elon musk got into this thing and he got into usaid, it turns out usaid is paying for 6200 journalists0 news outlets. jamie raskin's company took $160 million of usaid money just in 2023 alone. sheldon whitehouse's wife got $12 million from usaid money because she has some kind of ocean research company that is just a fraud. they gave $2 billion from climate money to that woman in georgia who ran for governor, stacey abrams. $2 billion. and here's another crazy thing you are not going to hear on the news. our government said fema had no money for those people in hawaii when they were burned out. they didn't have any money for the people in ohio. they didn't have any money for hurricane victims in florida or north carolina but in the time that those things were going on they handed out one $1 billion to illegal aliens, including the roosevelt hotel which is owned by the pakistani government. i have no faith in the media. alec soros and his father just bought hundreds of radio stations, and c-span, you guys are about ready to put a traitor on the air at 9:00, alexander vindman. he leaked
since elon musk got into this thing and he got into usaid, it turns out usaid is paying for 6200 journalists0 news outlets. jamie raskin's company took $160 million of usaid money just in 2023 alone. sheldon whitehouse's wife got $12 million from usaid money because she has some kind of ocean research company that is just a fraud. they gave $2 billion from climate money to that woman in georgia who ran for governor, stacey abrams. $2 billion. and here's another crazy thing you are not going to...
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they want to keep, you know, fighting for these usaid a workers and cfpb workers whereas if republicans doge into these talks, they'll completely shut down. i think speaker johnson knows that given his very tight margins, that it's a really tough balance. but a lot of budget hawks are saying, let's use this. we have these cuts, why aren't we talking about them? if. molly: yeah. we're also talking about a lot of action in court, executive order, corresponding court case, corresponding lawsuit with what doge is doing. in a win for the trump administration, alex, chief justice john roberts has allowed the u.s. to continue its pause on nearly 2 million in foreign aid a payments. is this a sign that the supreme court might be favoring the president when it comes to these other lower court orders regarding these cuts? >> yeah. i think that was a huge win for the trump administration because if the supreme court is siding with them in looking at some of these courts -- some of these cuts especially in the case of foreign aid a, that's huge for them to have chief justice roberts on their side a
they want to keep, you know, fighting for these usaid a workers and cfpb workers whereas if republicans doge into these talks, they'll completely shut down. i think speaker johnson knows that given his very tight margins, that it's a really tough balance. but a lot of budget hawks are saying, let's use this. we have these cuts, why aren't we talking about them? if. molly: yeah. we're also talking about a lot of action in court, executive order, corresponding court case, corresponding lawsuit...
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with usaid in limbo and russia keeping up its assault. the future of a u.s. deal with ukraine is now uncertain. all right. back here in the bay area, police are warning people to be alert and aware of an ongoing jewelry theft scam. we've seen these before. perpetrators approach victims, typically elderly targets, wearing expensive jewelry. they promise to sell or give them even better jewelry, overwhelm them, and then steal their real gold and jewels. today, in the bay's thom jensen spoke with one local woman who says her father was one of the latest victims. this is definitely not a one off. these distraction jewelry thefts have gotten the attention of police departments across the bay area, concerned for her safety. a woman we will call sarah says it happened quickly sunday at the san jose flea market on hill cap road. a woman approached her father's truck and asked for a cigarette. she just went ahead and opened the door, hopped onto the truck, and then, she says, the woman began putting costume gold necklaces on her dad that she claimed were real ticket.
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russia welcomes usaid cuts calls agency mission for interfering. yeah, it was it was fantastic news for someone. no one was seen to benefit more or to be more loudly cheering it on. than vladimir putin. and that was before the specific news confirmed today that among the projects, trump is explicitly and specifically turning off right now, this week is the program by which the us helps ukraine keep its electric grid up and running, even though russia has repeatedly targeted that electric grid throughout the war. because russia's idea of how it wants to win the unprovoked war it declared on our ally is to make the civilian population, including kids and the elderly and hospital patients and everyone, their best idea for how to prosecute that war is to cause them to freeze to death by bombing the electric grid in february. so more than any other evident targeting, they have targeted the electric grid that serves the civilian population in ukraine. it is the united states that has helped ukraine masterfully keep the power grid up, despite those repeat
russia welcomes usaid cuts calls agency mission for interfering. yeah, it was it was fantastic news for someone. no one was seen to benefit more or to be more loudly cheering it on. than vladimir putin. and that was before the specific news confirmed today that among the projects, trump is explicitly and specifically turning off right now, this week is the program by which the us helps ukraine keep its electric grid up and running, even though russia has repeatedly targeted that electric grid...
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and ranchers, the across-the-board tariff threats on our largest trading partners, the $2.1 billion usaid market that would go away if this program went away, and the discussion around cutting the supplemental nutrition assistance program. given the tough economic climate and thin margins, farmers don't need new problems, especially those manufactured in washington. mr. chairman, i believe that you and i and our great partners in the senate, senators klobuchar and senator boozman, could figure this out if left to our own work together with our own members. but i'm worried that the reconciliation process might impact our ability to get a farm bill. and i would be remiss if i did not say that out loud here today. the chairman and i are going to keep at it, together. farmers, lenders, rural communities and those who need help to put food on the table are watching and waiting. let's not disappoint them. thank you and i yield back. mr. thompson: i thank the ranking member. i think the word that came up the most here at this hearing today is uncertainty. and urn certainty around input costs, co
and ranchers, the across-the-board tariff threats on our largest trading partners, the $2.1 billion usaid market that would go away if this program went away, and the discussion around cutting the supplemental nutrition assistance program. given the tough economic climate and thin margins, farmers don't need new problems, especially those manufactured in washington. mr. chairman, i believe that you and i and our great partners in the senate, senators klobuchar and senator boozman, could figure...
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usaid is iranian and muslim. she found out about the vandalism saturday, the first full day of the holy month of ramadan. it had been there all day and some people had scratched off part of the fu, but it was very obvious and evident what the word was. she filed a police report. we've reached out to berkeley police but t have not heard back. mosts especially worried because she says this clinic has been vandalized three other times, just in the past year. previously, she says, vandals defaced a sign in her window calling for a ceasefire in gaza. this is unfortunate, but also a recurring incident in the san francisco bay area. the muslim civil rights organization carey says since october of 2023, they've seen upward trends in reported anti-muslim incidents across the country. carey is offering support to mossad after this latest vandalism incident. it's clear that this was a bias motivated incident, and we want to make sure that it's being investigated in that way. mossad and the berkeley network for palestine wil
usaid is iranian and muslim. she found out about the vandalism saturday, the first full day of the holy month of ramadan. it had been there all day and some people had scratched off part of the fu, but it was very obvious and evident what the word was. she filed a police report. we've reached out to berkeley police but t have not heard back. mosts especially worried because she says this clinic has been vandalized three other times, just in the past year. previously, she says, vandals defaced a...
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. >> so, for example, with usaid, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola. ebola prevention. i think we all want ebola prevention. >> now, that's the accent i hear. and i start running. >> yeah. >> turns out everybody should be very concerned about ebola, because even though musk says ebola prevention has been restored, officials say that's not true. usaid said that, quote, the teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an ebola outbreak have been dismantled. now, with all of these cuts happening with doge and the mistakes being made, everybody is, of course, asking the question, who the hell is in charge of doge? who is the person pulling the strings? who's the puppet master of doge? >> it's obviously elon musk. >> i'm with you. >> that can't be true, because trump said he isn't. uh. and why? why would why why would he lie? >> the administrator of the department of government efficiency is actually amy gleason, seen here hearing the words. actually, i am the manager. but a lot of people are wondering whether or not amy's really all in on doge. uh
. >> so, for example, with usaid, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola. ebola prevention. i think we all want ebola prevention. >> now, that's the accent i hear. and i start running. >> yeah. >> turns out everybody should be very concerned about ebola, because even though musk says ebola prevention has been restored, officials say that's not true. usaid said that, quote, the teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight an ebola...
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john: if usaid were to be cut or go away, could zelensky and ukraine go along with a just european supportthere enough forces and hardware to keep it going? mr. volker: it is not enough. it is good and supportive and will buy ukraine time but the u.s. provides unique capabilities including intelligence, satellites, training, equipping, logistics. there is so much the u.s. is doing that is vital to this. it is not enough europe on its own although it is important europe play a major role. -- john: you say it is important to get them all in the same side, but in european capitals aren't facing what happened yesterday, the way he talked about the war in ukraine, a message to europe that you're on your own? the war in ukraine is about european security to the european leaders. mr. volker: no, i don't think that was the message. i think the message was, we have to get putin to the negotiating table. you don't want to bash putin, criticize him personally and never get an end to the war. if you want to end the war, you have to get putin to the negotiating table. taking a position firmly fighting
john: if usaid were to be cut or go away, could zelensky and ukraine go along with a just european supportthere enough forces and hardware to keep it going? mr. volker: it is not enough. it is good and supportive and will buy ukraine time but the u.s. provides unique capabilities including intelligence, satellites, training, equipping, logistics. there is so much the u.s. is doing that is vital to this. it is not enough europe on its own although it is important europe play a major role. --...
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they're thinking about disrupting usaid. right.like and so i don't think that that's happening right now, but i think he does have a little bit of a leeway. >> but that. >> but how does he deal with, you know, the thousands of people have been fired across the federal government. you have a lot of questions, concerns about elon musk's role. even republicans are concerned. first of all, is elon musk going to go? do we know if he's going to go? where will he sit? uh, and secondly, how does trump address doge? >> we don't know if he's going to go, but if i were a betting man, which i'm not, um, i would guess that he'll be in the first lady's box. i mean, rush limbaugh was in the first lady's box. >> yeah, that was another thing. >> exactly. um, i'm sure he'll bring up doge. i mean, it's a key part of his administration's agenda. >> how does he just the firings, though, that's really impacted so many people and obviously deeply personal level. >> absolutely. i mean, to the extent that he gets into the firings directly from from during
they're thinking about disrupting usaid. right.like and so i don't think that that's happening right now, but i think he does have a little bit of a leeway. >> but that. >> but how does he deal with, you know, the thousands of people have been fired across the federal government. you have a lot of questions, concerns about elon musk's role. even republicans are concerned. first of all, is elon musk going to go? do we know if he's going to go? where will he sit? uh, and secondly, how...
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usaid employees given just minutes this week to pack up their desks. house ordering all agencies to work with musk's team to submit plans for large-scale layoffs by march 13th. trump making his stance clear. >> is anybody unhappy? if you are, we'll throw them out of here. [ laughter ] >> reporter: musk is using the same playbook he implemented after taking over twitter, laying off thousands of employees and firing top executives. >> we're really just going through and doing very basic things here. it's -- as bad as twitter was, the federal government is much worse. >> reporter: the department of government efficiency originally claimed to have saved $65 billion in government funds, but only provided a list of contract cancellations and lease terminations totaling $9.6 billion, a drop in the bucket when it comes to spending of $6.75 trillion. musk claims his work is out in the open. >> do you know what's better than saying trust me is just full transparency. >> reporter: but musk never disclosing who actually works on his team. abc has learned doge is s
usaid employees given just minutes this week to pack up their desks. house ordering all agencies to work with musk's team to submit plans for large-scale layoffs by march 13th. trump making his stance clear. >> is anybody unhappy? if you are, we'll throw them out of here. [ laughter ] >> reporter: musk is using the same playbook he implemented after taking over twitter, laying off thousands of employees and firing top executives. >> we're really just going through and doing...
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the argument that usaid keeps us safe from. it kept us safe from another nine over 11 in the years after 911, because by stemming catastrophe and human suffering, you also counter extremism in some of the most brutal and hostile corners of the globe. that that that aid isn't just philanthropic, which seems to be donald trump's misunderstanding of it, that aid is one of our most mighty soft power tools, not just for ending human suffering, but for keeping us safe here. another person described this as the worst 24 hours in modern american history that we dismantle programs to spare children from dying of malaria and measles, mumps, preventable deaths and diseases, and we dismantle the world alliance. what is trump's end game? if you're an adversary or an ally looking at everything he's doing? >> i think his end game is to undermine the security and stability of the united states. and that brings us back to the question that you asked earlier, why there's no other way to look at this in some nicole, than to see that this is a del
the argument that usaid keeps us safe from. it kept us safe from another nine over 11 in the years after 911, because by stemming catastrophe and human suffering, you also counter extremism in some of the most brutal and hostile corners of the globe. that that that aid isn't just philanthropic, which seems to be donald trump's misunderstanding of it, that aid is one of our most mighty soft power tools, not just for ending human suffering, but for keeping us safe here. another person described...
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and hayes, i mean, i'm just you've been writing a lot about the impact of doge on usaid, which seemsnews, some horrifying thing after another 15 minutes to get your stuff out. >> right. and i think one of the things. >> that's been overlooked. >> is the fact that a lot of the money that is being tied up right now, that trump and doge are effectively saying should not go out the door for usaid is to pay for work that's already been done by contractors and grantees. $1.5 billion thereabouts of work that has been completed, that is now these contractors, they may have subcontracted out. so other people are waiting for that funding. they can't pay their workers. they can't pay their staffers. people's lives are in danger across the world because now they're on the hook for money. that should have been coming from the u.s. government. that is not on its way. >> max, i don't understand how this i mean, the dominoes, i see the dominoes just in what haines was talking about. like they think, oh, we're just going to whack away. we're going to fire the federal bureaucracy without even thinking
and hayes, i mean, i'm just you've been writing a lot about the impact of doge on usaid, which seemsnews, some horrifying thing after another 15 minutes to get your stuff out. >> right. and i think one of the things. >> that's been overlooked. >> is the fact that a lot of the money that is being tied up right now, that trump and doge are effectively saying should not go out the door for usaid is to pay for work that's already been done by contractors and grantees. $1.5 billion...
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all by executive order. >> when actually i would add was usaid. it was created by executive order by president kennedy. >> i have a video i would like to in with -- end with. i want to remind my democratic friends at a point in which she once had the majority of the american people on your side, this is what your party believes in. >> this report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamlined the bureaucracy. change the personnel rules and create a government that works better and costs less. >> among the 800 recommendations were eliminating 12% of the federal workforce, merging some agencies, closing hundreds of government offices outside washington. >> one of the commitments i made to the american people was that we would do a better job here in washington of moving out wasteful spending. we thought it was entirely appropriate for governments and agencies to try to root out waste large and small in a systematic way. that means cutting some programs that they think are worthy or we might not be able to afford right now. a lot of the actions
all by executive order. >> when actually i would add was usaid. it was created by executive order by president kennedy. >> i have a video i would like to in with -- end with. i want to remind my democratic friends at a point in which she once had the majority of the american people on your side, this is what your party believes in. >> this report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamlined the bureaucracy. change the personnel rules and create a government that works...
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and so diligent agencies are using it, but ones that weren't diligent like usaid were not using it.o to there's a lot of basic changes we can make to to help know where our taxpayer dollars are being spent and whether or not they're being spent wisely. maria: meanwhile, the clock is ticking with the shutdown deadline just two weeks away. the house passing their one big, beautiful bill as a president trump calls it, sending it over to the senate this week where there seems to be differing opinions over how to handle the extension of trump's a tax cuts to the end of 20 to 20 the 34 o. watch. finish. >> this is the most important thing we can do the ensure the economy keeps growing, wages keep growing, end sure that that america remains -- ensure that america remains globally competitive, is to make the trump tax cuts from 2017 permanent. >> i don't really understand the argument about a permanency, because even under the best of circumstances a budget resolution only lasts ten years. i'm not as hung up on permanency as some of my friends are. maria: what about that, senator? i mean, i
and so diligent agencies are using it, but ones that weren't diligent like usaid were not using it.o to there's a lot of basic changes we can make to to help know where our taxpayer dollars are being spent and whether or not they're being spent wisely. maria: meanwhile, the clock is ticking with the shutdown deadline just two weeks away. the house passing their one big, beautiful bill as a president trump calls it, sending it over to the senate this week where there seems to be differing...
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contratos de la agencia de los estados unidos para el desarrollo internacional, tambien conocida como usaida a muchos paises. entre los impactados esta etiopia. se detuvo la asistencia alimentaria para mas de 1 millon de personas en haiti. 13.000 personas han p perdido el acceso a apoyo nu nutricional en colombia. los desplazados por la violencia dejaran de recibir alimentos y articulos basicos. el recorte de 60 mil millones de dolares impactara tambien proyectos como la lucha contra el terrorismo y el trafico de personas. la corte suprema suspendio temporalmente la orden de un juez que exigia al gobierno reanudar los pagos congelados en ayuda exterior. y hoy tambien se aplaude la pronta accion de los pilotos de un avion de carga de fedex que tuvieron que realizar un aterrizaje de emergencia en el aeropuerto internacional newark liberty. segun la empresa, el vuelo que despego de nueva jersey rumbo a indianapolis choco contra un pajaro, p provocando que el motor se incendiara. >> you had a bird. >> we're declarando emergency returning the airfield. >> contact a partir eight five five y let h
contratos de la agencia de los estados unidos para el desarrollo internacional, tambien conocida como usaida a muchos paises. entre los impactados esta etiopia. se detuvo la asistencia alimentaria para mas de 1 millon de personas en haiti. 13.000 personas han p perdido el acceso a apoyo nu nutricional en colombia. los desplazados por la violencia dejaran de recibir alimentos y articulos basicos. el recorte de 60 mil millones de dolares impactara tambien proyectos como la lucha contra el...
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usaid was created by congress.shut it down by going and firing everybody and cutting off the funding. i think it's not only that people didn't really vote in this election for massive social spending cuts. trump was always somebody who said he didn't want that, but that it's illegal. a lot of these court cases already have ruled against them. the supreme court is going to have to step up, and this will help define the politics and the law of the coming months. >> yeah, and it'll certainly be a defining moment in our nation's history as to how the supreme court comes down on so many of these issues. but it's safe to say we're still in the shock and awe period of everything that is happening with the past couple of months. >> i think people a few months ago were kind of checked out. >> yeah. >> a month ago they were kind of stunned and depressed. i think people are getting angry. >> and starting to reengage. mike waldman, thank you so much. great to have you on the show. really appreciate it. after the break, cashing
usaid was created by congress.shut it down by going and firing everybody and cutting off the funding. i think it's not only that people didn't really vote in this election for massive social spending cuts. trump was always somebody who said he didn't want that, but that it's illegal. a lot of these court cases already have ruled against them. the supreme court is going to have to step up, and this will help define the politics and the law of the coming months. >> yeah, and it'll certainly...
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recently dismantled usaid. it's very difficult to see, you know, the calculation or the rationale behind possibly, you know, not signing the agreement and not continuing the aid in the south bay. congressman sam liccardo says he's worried about what trump's actions mean for u.s. support in other democracies. it's a disgrace. the president is betraying the ukrainian people. he's betraying many long standing allies. other european leaders chimed in in support of zelenskyy after this exchange, like french president emmanuel macron, who emphasized that ukraine is the victim. the ukrainians we spoke with say they're encouraged to see that support and worried about what will come next from russia. i don't see how i it makes sense r the us to abandon ukraine. that could lead to some pretty catastrophic consequences if russia is not stopped. now the consequences could be very sad and unpredictable. alyssa goard, nbc bay area news. okay, let's switch gears for a moment. a live look out at san francisco. we are tracking
recently dismantled usaid. it's very difficult to see, you know, the calculation or the rationale behind possibly, you know, not signing the agreement and not continuing the aid in the south bay. congressman sam liccardo says he's worried about what trump's actions mean for u.s. support in other democracies. it's a disgrace. the president is betraying the ukrainian people. he's betraying many long standing allies. other european leaders chimed in in support of zelenskyy after this exchange,...
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do doubt fire going for this game and it was a biden usaid program that elon musk has decided.he show was a deputy health human services. >> this is a perfect point going for them and it's a polar opposite joe biden administration and going for them and nothing would happen and people expected the government isn't going to do anything and now you have this and things are moving and things are happening in realtime and everyone can see it and all the prosperities that president trump and going for the last four years was nothing but weakness and what we have in president trump deliver delivering in spades. going for the coverup. brian: he's going to proudly supports tend he's above and cracking the code on joe biden going for them and he's got a cash in on it. it's unbelievable for them and going over at axios and thompson was writing about all this stuff and took a ton of heat and there were wri writers and hughes at wall street journal and trying to report the truth and immediately inundated by the left of lying about his condition and jake tapper was amongst them and i don't
do doubt fire going for this game and it was a biden usaid program that elon musk has decided.he show was a deputy health human services. >> this is a perfect point going for them and it's a polar opposite joe biden administration and going for them and nothing would happen and people expected the government isn't going to do anything and now you have this and things are moving and things are happening in realtime and everyone can see it and all the prosperities that president trump and...