the biden administration was violating the law. opleoming in with the cbp1 app for not jumping the border illegally, it was the administration that was breaking the law for them by letting the men. it had to be ended and frankly, and this is a whole other show, but asylum is a surrender of sovereignty. the illegal immigrants says you have to let me in, you have to let me stay. that is not sustainable and we need a bottom-up reassessment of what our asylum policy is. post: do you think those who are already in the country and seeking asylum should have their case heard in front of a judge, and determine whether or not they should be allowed to stay based on that asylum claim? guest: if they are in the pipeline, we end up having to inevitably give them their day in court. the problem is the law requires that everyone making that kind of asylum claim as to be held in detention into that decision is made. the problem is if they don't show up to court or if they get a negative finding as most of them will, then what did you do? that is w

how does the trump administration take that handoff from the biden administration and with the tarifft jobs at all? >> so, we were looking at a boyd administration -- biden administration that looked at crushing inflation and interest rates hikes because of the reckless government spending. those strangled the economy and proof of that, 1.4 million jobs seem to have fabricated on paper and disappeared once we got real people into the agencies. trump is going to reverse that, deregulation, unleashing our industries, and the sky is the limit how many good jobs we could have. rich: richard, thank you for joining that. and an order would affect laws in democratic run cities that currently ban plastic straws like california, new york and others. the biden administration previously started phasing out plastic straws on federal land in july. the midwest and northeast are facing a winter storm threat this weekend. details coming up. you don't hurt cause you're old. you hurt because your mattress stinks, which makes our job a lot easier. sleeping on purple improves your energy by 20%, which is

the last four years of the biden administration failed the american people. under president biden's watch, millions of illegal aliens flooded across our border. president biden's open border policies created a national security, humanitarian and drug catastrophe at our southern border. even worse, it made the biden border crisis made nebraska a border state. let's go through some of the numbers the last four years. we had 10.5 million border encounters since biden took office. in 2023, border patrol agents counted 169 people on the f.b.i.'s terrorist watch list and another 103 in 2024. under the first trump administration, in 2019, that number was zero and often in the sickle digits. on a single day in december, u.s. customs and border protection encountered 12,600 people trying to enter the country illegally. it set an all-time single day record for people trying to break into our country. in 2019, the former administration secretary -- obama administration secretary of homeland security, jeh johnson, said 1,000 crossings a day would be a crisis. 12,600 is a

politic fact was funded by the biden administration. den was sensoring you and funding independent fact checkerers to call you a liar. kamala took your money and paid sharpton. biden took your money, gave it to politico and donors to build solar panels. the left somehow looks like one big astro turf to money laundering shell game. remember, the cia has a history of planning scoops with journalists. >> disseminate propaganda to influence peoples mind and this is a major function of the cia. you have contact with a journalist, you will give him true stories and get investigates from him and also give him -- information from him. you also work on their human vulnerabilities to make their your agent so that you can control what -- 400 journalists cooperating with the cia including some of the biggest names in the business to consciously introduce the stories into the press. >> jesse: journalists were on cia payroll. >> do you have any people being paid by the cia who are contributing to a major circulation american journal? >> we do have peo

we had the biden administration setting the staffing requirements for nurses in every nursing home inota. rather than improving care, this, like many other last-minute p biden regulations, will make it harder if not impossible, for north dakota organizations and businesses to do their jobs. the rule and regulation mania of the last administration was historic. according to a study by the national association of manufacture, the total costs of federal recognition 2022 was more than $3 trillion, roughly 12% of the u.s. g.d.p. make no mistake. businesses don't just take on these costs. hardworking american families pay for these rules and regulations in the price of anything they buy. what's worse, these regulations burden small businesses the most including north dakota farmers, ranchers, energy producers, manufacturers, and main street businesses. i heard this loud and clear from north dakotans in every corner of the state. that's why my first official action as a member of congress was to send a letter to president trump and then-governor burghum that identified 20 burdensome regulati

it was tantamount to a welcome mat that was being laid out by the biden administration. and there's no that the crisis that we've the last four years is what i call crisis by design and was purposeful intentional that no matter how the administration attempts to spin it in final days, that it has in the white house, the border has never been secure. the last four years because the administration decided that through executive orders they would legalize illegal immigration and also exploit the legal pathways into the country to say otherwise was an outright insult to the american people and the american people simply said in this election enough is enough now sadly. we don't have time to explore the motives as to as to why did this there are many thoughts was it to change the of the democratic party to influence voting through allowing illegal immigrants to vote. we saw that historically in congress where you actually had jurisdiction. and like washington dc come out in support of allowing that to take place or was it simply that they just didn't care about our national s

the last four years of the biden administration failed the american people. illegal aliens butted across our border. resident biome created national security and humanitarian drug catastrophe at the southern border. even worse made the biden border crisis made nebraska border state. we had time and and a half million border encounters since biden took office another hundred and three in 2024 under the first trump administration in 2019 the number was zero often in the single digits. a single day in december u.s. customs and border protection encounter 12,600 people trying to enter the country illegally. at an all-time single day record for the number of people trying to break into our country. in 2019 the former administration secretary obama administration ÃÃdave johnson said thousand crossings a day would be a crisis. 12,600 is a catastrophe. the crossings weren't the only cost, record amounts and daily drugs, cross open borders into the hands of our children and loved ones. griffin was a young mom of two who took the pill she thought was percocet but laced

so this should have been done by the biden administration. this should have never happened, because october 7th would have never happened if i were president. zero chance of happening. you wouldn't have had that whole mess with the middle east got blown up, and you wouldn't have had ukraine and russia fighting. that would have never happened. and by the way, we're making good progress there, i think. i really think we're making some very good progress. >> mr. president. >> you said before that. >> the us would buy gaza, and today you just said we're not going. >> to buy gaza. >> we're not going to have to buy we're going to we're going to have gaza. we don't have to buy. there's nothing to buy. we will have gaza. what does that mean? no reason to buy. there is nothing to buy. it's gaza. it's a war torn area. we're going to take it. we're going to hold it. we're going to cherish it. we're going to get it going eventually, where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the middle east, it's going to be for the people in the middl

david: they were also a big, the biden administration, on cutting offshore drilling.any did a report suggesting that, responsibly done -- and the emphasis on the word responsibly, so there wouldn't be any oil spills. of course, accidents will happen, but very responsible drilling in the gulf of mexico could be increased an there -- an extra 2 million barrels a day. are you going to be working on that? >> absolutely. it's just unbelievable, in the last weeks of the biden administration he signed an executive order, biden did, which took 625 million acres of offshore potential off of the market through an executive order. david: yeah. >> president trump has unbanned a the ban. we're going the go back. that was biden wiping out trillions of dollars of revenue from the next generations of america. unbelievable, what he was doing, to restrict access to a balance sheet. the balance sheet belongs to the american public. david: and i've got to apologize. i said gulf of mexico, didn't i? whoops! gulf of america. but can we get that extra 2 million barrels a day from the gulf t

needs to spend more than the biden administration was willing to.so met by some protesters on base. outraged over the scrapping of diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the military. there are 78,000 troops in europe including those deployed to shore up nato allies bordering ukraine. hegseth says those forces will remain for now. >> there are no plans right now in the making to cut anything. we're not sending u.s. troops to ukraine. >> hegseth says he want to focus on another trouble spot closer to home. >> is china the biggest threat to the united states. >> well, right now the biggest threat was securing our own border. as far as external threats, there is just no doubt the communist chinese ambitions are robust. >> president trump recently said he wants elon musk doge team to look at the pentagon. >> we welcome doge to the pentagon. and i hope to welcome elon to the pentagon very soon. >> defense secretary hegseth has arrived here in brussels ahead of meetings with his nato counterparts. at the three year anniversary of russia's war in ukra

ideology and partners and just look at the begin of hope in the fight against hiv-aids the biden administrationies this crucial program and jeopardize the lives and undermining our relationship with african patients and under administrator power, our message to africa was explicitly, as it was heinous then abort your babies and violate your religious convictions or we won't grant you lifesaving aid in the me be crystal clear to those who been complicit in this betrayal, furring those involved is just a start and we have a long way to go. in one last point, i would correct the record on a couple of things at first, elon musk in the team working does not have access to personal data they do not have access to your social security number, that is a lie. jan musk does have a security clearance anc top-secret securiy clearance my he makes the rockets for nasa. but the suggestion that he somehow cannot be trusted to begin to how we are spending our money is nothing but a smokescreen to hide the corruption in the wasteful spending that has occurred there and i am personally offended the left continue

really interesting, this is the metaphor of the president trump administration versus the biden administration sal sat in three years in run prison for possessing marijuana. after three weeks of the trump administration he's home. they looked at weakness as somehow virtuous. strong american leadership can accomplish so much more and so many good things. the biden administration, it doesn't seem like they tried which is the worst part of it all. maria: not only that, but there's a reason that as president trump was getting inaugurated on january 20th, the hostages in gaza started coming home. he said those hostages better be home by the time i'm inaugurated and at least -- >> or all hell will break loose. maria: and the process started. >> yeah. well, it's about initiative, it's about getting things done and quite frankly, and i'm thrilled about this, people fear him. they don't know what he's capable of and that -- that goes back to teddy roosevelt. carry a big stick. you may not always use it, let's hope you don't need to use it but carry the big stick and let people know you've got it. maria

the biden administration didn't stop there. they had a new radical decision, abortion on demand in pepfar called reimagining pepfar, explicit guidance, dollars of taxpayer funds, to enact pro-abortion policies in pepfar companies. biden hijacked pepfar and shattered-- i did the reauthorization of pepfar for five years during the trump administration, the first one. i'm all for it. in this place here and on the floor of the house and all over africa as i traveled all for it, but then was hijacked. a strong rebuke, mr. matsios. 130 african religious and leaders said pepfar is supporting abortions and the ngo's we financed are hijacking their ideals by pushing it so aggressively in africa. as you testified today and i read your written statement that usaid needs to be refashioned and you said that, quote, you believe it is bad policy to transfer domestic culture wars into politics to the developing world. do you believe that the biden administration was wrong to integrate abortion on demand as interglobal health? because they did

several media claim no evidence of fraud that even the biden administration admitted the fraud was ahere to let's bring in-house ways and means jason smith to talk more about this. give me a second if you could go to because i want to fully set this up and get your response to it. to the left-leaning media coverage of doge is for the most part pretty critical including "the new york times" which february the 11th and a headline said, "the oval office makes fraud claims federal fraud without proof. now consider this, gao report april 16th last year during the biden administration which said gao estimated total direct annual financial losses to the government from fraud to be 233000000000-$521 billion from fiscal year 2018-2022. they put up this graph of the worst offenders, nearly 24% of the treasury department budget is lost to waste, fraud, and obvious!" that would be in direct contrast the way "the new york times" presenting what elon musk is doing. your thoughts about that. >> i will tell you, the american people spoke loud and clear. 77 million people electing donald trump and ma

but instead of a natural disaster, what we had during the four years of the biden administration was n-made disaster. while every state became a border state during the last administration, there are costs that texas had to shoulder that our neighbors have not. it's just fair and right and just for texas taxpayers to be made whole for the border security responsibilities it took on as a result of president biden's dereliction of duty. so i'm proud to support governor abbott's request for the state to be reimbursed. my colleagues on the house and senate appropriations committees should expect me and senator cruz and the entire texas delegation to be strongly advocating for reis reimbursement for texas in the coming weeks, and i look forward to working with them in order to make this a reality. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. tuberville: i come to the floor today to talk to you about president trump's tariffs. the media is in full meltdown. they're in a full meltdown mode after president trump imposed duties and ret t t t tall -- re

yet despite these advances for women, for four years the biden-harris administration waged a war on women's sports. instead of empowering young women, they denied biological reality and blurred the difference between men and women. in 2022, biden's education department announced new rules that would allow biological males to participate in women's groups and activities, essentially forcing schools to accept men into their women's athletic programs. following up last year, the administration extended the rule making to private spaces such as locker rooms and bath rooms, further jeopardizing the safety of women. thankfully in november, the american people rejected this radical agenda. instead they gave president trump a mandate to protect women, restore fairness, and bring common sense back to government rule making. that's why on inauguration day, president trump issued an executive order that affirms the federal government's position that there are only two sexes, male and female, that are grounded in biology, not gender ideology. in effect, this means no more forcing schools to allow biolo

one way, biden administration weaponizing the entire government. member back to the obama administration when the irs was actually targeting conservative organizations and religious organizations? think about today. fdic just recently released, recently released a trove of documents reinforcing the fact that, yes, regulators have been weaponized. maria: unbelievable. you're right. melania trump told me that exclusively in my interview last year that as soon as she left the white house, her bank calls her and tells her we can't accept you as a customer anymore. it's just outrageous, the politicization that has gone on in this government. now, what do you want to say about potential mergers within financial services in government? because i know that the democrats are going nuts over this idea that cf be pb is being closed down. there's also speculation that the cftc and s.e.c. have overhappened, maybe you want to merge those. are you expecting mergers within some of these government agencies as another way to cut costs, senator? >> maria, let us pray

gaza, it would have been so great if the biden administration started but in all fairness, they should never have let it happen, it did and because of the fact they let this happen, this catastrophe of october 7, something becomes practical and very real and the things we talked about in respect to the gaza strip. if you didn't have the october 7 catastrophe, it was a horrible catastrophe, he wouldn't be talking about that. the only thing i can say is this will bring stability and peace to the middle east. quite a while from now when things calm down but it will bring tremendous jobs to the middle east including people of your country. >> everything they are not going to want to go back. they feel like it is their right to do that and there isn't any repercussions. >> we think people are going to be very happy. they are in a different form tremendous support with this project we think it's going to bring ultimately to the middle east. >> they continue their and what do you think about? >> in michigan we have a large population and week one the population and they finish and restarted c

and so both the biden administration and now the trump administration have been trying to secure his release after he was arrested four years ago with some 17g of marijuana. so just over half an ounce. again, a disappointment to his family that he was not released last year, but now he is on his way home. according to this white house statement, he will be back on american soil and reunited with his family by tonight. boris. >> and as you put it, alex, perhaps a precursor to more developments on a potential deal between ukraine and russia. alex marquardt, thank you so much for the breaking news. there are new questions about possible conflicts of interest at the justice department. people who defended donald trump in some capacity, including in his criminal cases, may now be investigating those who tried to prosecute him. we're learning these top officials are leading what's called the weaponization working group, tasked with examining current and former prosecutors and fbi employees. cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid is here with this new reporting. paula, talk to us

they lost for the past four months of the biden administration lost 39,000 manufacturing jobs. the proverb owls administration tried to do the job situation saying that the economy, jobs creation was not as bad as it really was as the data was saying. as you know, voters didn't buy it. >> dana: edward lawrence, thank you so much. >> sandra: we'll watching markets opening 20 minutes from now. the senate confirming russ vought despite a democrat protest. they railed against him as he laid out in the heritage foundation's project 2025. vought is in a position to carry out that vision. >> what they're doing is choosing illegal aliens over the safety and security of their own citizens and the men and women of law enforcement who are out there trying to protect their citizens. >> sandra: pam bondi going after sanctuary cities. what she is doing to hit them where it hurts. >> stae waiting for dana perino to notice me. even though she doesn't notice me i'm glad the organizers. >> dana: this was at the washington press club this week and see what he has to say for himself later this hour

the biden administration even weapon eyes the crucial program.d undermining the relationship with african nations. under administrative powers our message to africa was explicit as it was heinous. abort your babies and violate your religious convictions or we won't grant you lifesaving aid. let me be crystal clear to those who been complicit in this portrayal. firing those involved is just a start. we have a long way to go. one last point, i want to correct the record on a couple of things. the team that's working does not have access to personal data they don't have access to your social security number, that is alive. elon musk does have a security clearance as a top-secret security clearance, my god, he makes the rockets for nasa. but the suggestion he somehow can't be trusted to dig into how we are spending our money, is nothing but a smokescreen to hide the corruption in the wasteful spending that has occurred there. i am personally offended at the last continued references to 19-year-olds and 21-year-olds in their doing work. there are 19-y

they could not make a deal to get any energy from the biden administration. there was nobody to deal with, they did not know how to go about it and they are happy we are here. we will benefit our taxpayers and our country. i want to thank everybody for coming. this is a big bill. this will be energy dominant. we will be energy dominant like nobody else. this is not even discuss all of the electricity we will be producing for all of the ai plants. they need double the electricity at least. you take all of our electricity that we have all over the country, just for ai to do it right and win that war, which we are leading by a lot because of what we have done over the last few weeks, if you take all of it, we have to double our electricity needs just for the ai. that is not a the other technologies. it is a real honor to sign this bill. we will also work on cafe standards. we will make that whole situation back into reality very quickly, having to do with cars. thank you very much. in two weeks we will have another one. yesterday was very big. reciprocal tariffs

inflation point we did receive those numbers and they were worse than expected, which tells us the biden administration indeed left us with a mess to deal with. it is far worse than i think anybody anticipated because unfortunately the previous administration was not transparent in where the economy truly was. we know people at this very podium told the american people that inflation was transitory and that it would go away. that was not the case. and now the last report of the biden administration, as revealed today, shows that inflation is still about 4.5% higher over the past three months. this is an indictment on the biden administration's mismanagement of the inflation crisis and their lack of transparency in addressing it. as for tackling inflation and interest rates, the president has made his position on this very clear. he wants interest rates to be lower. he wants inflation to be lower. and he believes that the whole of government economic approach that this administration is taking will result in lower inflation. i have said that from this podium many times. the president had record low inte

in fact the biden administration said we'll talk to to the biden administration but not tariffs but it is a agoa and i'm bewildered by the fact that so little was done but more specifically we didn't engage more with kenya on a continent that i think provides huge promise for what our needs are economically and what the opportunities can be across the continent of africa and aren't dependent on our trade partners as we have become. >> in terms of opportunities, i mean it doesn't seem like there is much talk of expanding our exports right now. and nebraska, your district, agricultural trade is a key component. would you like to see more of a focus on that? sphend this out, the trade war, a lot of the way this may play out, might be going the other direction? mr.smith: it is a concern and former committee chairman kevin brady was quick to say about buy american and he said let's make sure we can sell american and that's important in my district obviously, a huge agriculture district. but i also think our engagement in the world has been lacking so much that other countries expect more of

. >> came from biden administration the obama administration, let me tell you we are keeping a spotlightator any bank that debanks legitimate companies debank conservatives we're shining a spotlight on it going to call it out for sure. i can promise you, let me move to president trump. >> go by one more thing really important. >> okay. >> shine the light on regulators focusing banks to do it banks don't necessarily want to do it they are forced into it to continue in business with a regulator focus on regulators. >> disgusting! that is exactly what they did to social media companies, during covid, they bullied them to censor citizens covid vaccines did same to social media bullied them until they censored them, the president stripping security clearances of former president biden former secretary antony blinken, letitia james, alvin bragg president trump stopped daily intelligence abbreviation for president biden unfortunately these guys played fast and loose with law i am not provide what do you think. >> they were added to national security now in retirement would be different deal yov

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but the biden administration doesn't exist anymore. so we just have to deal with the situation the way it is and what justin's analysis, and i think the trump administration analysis fails to acknowledge is a basic truth, which is that ukrainian territory is not trump's to give away. it's not ours to give away. we can't negotiate away 20% of ukraine. it doesn't belong to us. it belongs to the ukrainian people. and when you have a negotiation about ukraine that doesn't involve the aspirations of the ukrainian people, it doesn't understand what their commitment to not living under putin's cruel rule is to getting their territory back, to getting the 20,000 children that were stolen from them and shipped off to russia, back to getting justice and accountability for the war crimes that had happened. and to. >> get hold on. is your suggestion that they have essentially sold that ability to have a seat at the table because of the united states support financially? >> no. what i'm saying is that even if the united states stopped supporting th

eversole, in what ways did the biden administration weaponize jack -- weaponize our government against producers? ms. eversole: unfortunately we saw in the last administration that there was an all of government approach to really favor certain forms of energy but disfavor others. what we have all discussed today on a bipartisan basis is that what we really need is all of the above. we have such increasing demand not only from the technological growth, but the fact of the matter is for the next couple of decades we are going to have 2 billion people to this planet. there are 750 million people in this world that live in energy poverty and it does not have to be that way. rep. fry: in the document you submitted recommendations. they reference the biden-era rules. what were those and how did they impact the industry? ms. eversole: this is an example of where the congressional intent was not follow-through in the regulation. we need to go back and as part of fundamental permitting reform we really need to revise the statute so they cannot be weaponized in the courts. they are a check to e

that was clearly the case in this balloon at communication modules this was a failure of the biden administrationause biden thought he could accommodate lee the chinese party. they made it very clear the peoples were honest defined as total war we had chinese migrants in our country who are surveilling our military bases it runs through the list the signs of attacker obvious in the biden administration fail to understand what was going on trump is taking a different view and that's very good. maria: even as president trump is securing the border, yugoslav chinese nationals coming into the country. you can't leave china you need approval for that. >> if we go back to use the chinese migrants coming across the southern border that were family grips they were desperate to live in a free society now border patrol reports at least two thirds of the chinese migrants across the southern border are single males military age traveling without family members for - 15 and in the pack some of them have all identical kit which indicates planning for an attack this coincides with the uptick in tempo of chinese

point, we did receive those numbers and they were worse than expected, which tells us that the biden administration indeed left us with a mess to deal with. it's far worse than i think anybody anticipated. because unfortunately the previous administration was not transparent in where the economy truly was. we know people at this very podium told the american people that inflation was transitory and that it would go away. that was not the case. and now the last report of the biden administration has revealed today that inflation is still about 4.5% higher over the past three months. this is an indictment on the biden administration's mismanagement of the inflation crisis and their lack of transparency in addressing it. as for tackling inflation and interest rate, the president has made his position on this very clear. he wants interest rates to be lower. he wants inflation to be lower. and he believes that the whole of government economic approach that this administration is taking will result in lower inflation. i have said that from this podium many times. the president had record low interest rat

seen how cartels and smugglers are exploiting the disastrous border crisis created by the biden administration. we hit catastrophic numbers, nearly 3 million border crossings in 2024 alone. bringing over 11 million encounters from when biden took office. that is more than the entire population of minnesota and louisiana combined. now we have seen under president trump's leadership 95% decrease in border encounters. in just a few weeks. it is amazing what strong tough leadership does and what following the law does. that is what this republican majority is committed to doing. the agent raoul gonzalez officer safety act of which i am a proud cosponsor led by another arizonan, it is personal in arizona for me. these high-speed pursuits are not only statistics, criminal illegal aliens but our law enforcement officers at risk every single day. with president trump's designation of the cartels as a foreign terrorist organization on january 20, we finally have the tools to treat these librarians like the terrorists they are. we have to kill the cartels. this build is one simple thing. if you flee fro

there is no question, our intelligence agencies have been politicized by the biden administration, and it's been going on for far too long. david: well, it happens fingerprint. -- from time to time. it happened with the nixon administration and certainly when donald trump first came into office for his first term. >> that's true. david: senator, great to see to you. appreciate it. >> david, thanks for having me on. david: absolutely. well, three more israeli hostages released by hamas today including a dual u.s. citizen. where does that ceasefire deal stand as more families are hoping to reunite with their loved ones? many are still left behind. >>> and i.c.e. making more arrests this week as president trump says guantanamo bay is preparing to house tens of thousands of, quote, illegal criminal migrants. details on that straight ahead. weathertech products are designed and manufactured in america using only american raw materials. most competitors make things seven thousand miles away... and then wonder why they don't fit. with weathertech in your vehicle you may hear angels singing as

why couldn't the biden administration tell the man who was almost killed about the people who tried tol him. >> you can tell just now to fourth week of president trump's presidency of his term this administration is the polar opposite of the administration that we just witnessed under joe biden. we had zero transparency last 4 years now we're expecting all transparency, people are getting upset with doge, now we're seeing so much more transparency within the governmental agencies as far as spending, people are excited, democrats are not so excited about it. what happened in butler, pennsylvania that day, there many things that fell off there they were off, many things that should not have happened, trump has every right to demand answers, anyone in his situation would want answers as far as almost being killed live on air. it is just crazy to imagine what happened. and to think up to this point he does not have answers, i imagine, he will get his way soon enough. >> in search of those answers,ien if people left the secret service or trump cleans house now they are recruiting more peopl

under the biden administration noted one out of every $10 actual people in need abroad.dy by the middle east forever revealed that usaid awarded $164 million in taxpayer funds to extremist organizations including 122 dollars two groups linked to designated terrorist entities. i believe my colleagues here would agree this reckless spending has drifted from american interest in said benefited foreign interest it's time we commit to cutting waste fraud and abuse and government funding program initiatives that with american values. people deserve to know where and how the money is being spent and how they align with the u.s. interest. should the organization include a comprehensive audit of usaid spending four years how should the audit identify waste fraud and programs that may have undermined for objectives. >> you could go back years but it's a great bipartisan leadership using oversight defining the priorities of the parameters of future u.s. aid assistance programs that leads to certainty that where we are at we are not wavering it creates continuity in our programs and

this should have been done by the biden administration. but you know they didn't do anything. they didn't know what the hell they were doing. this should have been done by the biden administration. this should have never happened because october 7th would have never happened if i were president, zero chance of happening. you wouldn't have had that whole mess with the middle east got blown up, and you wouldn't have had ukraine and russia. fighting that would have never happened. and by the way, we're making good progress there i think. i really think we're making some very good progress. >> you said before that the u.s. would buy gaza and today you just said we're not going to buy gaza. pres. trump: we are not going to have to buy. we're going to have gaza. we don't have to buy. there's nothing to buy. we will have gaza. >> what does that mean? pres. trump: there is no reason to buy. there is nothing to buy. it's gaza. it's a war-torn area. we're going to take it. we're going to hold it. we're going to cherish it. we are going to get it goi

that under the biden administration recovered over $1 billion from billionaires who weren't paying their fair share. my constituents are afraid this administration will ruin their lives. on one day we answered calls all day from people concerned about elon musk running roughshod over the government. he also seems to -- these changes come at the expense of those americans who already make our country great. he also seems to think elon is going to do it for him. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. frost: i rise to honor the life of a great man who just so happened to be my high school principal, mr. mytron lisby. as a kid i was a bit of a troublemaker. one day i played a prank at school that landed me in mr. lisby's office. i should have been expelled that day. but he told me, i'm not expelling you. i think you can be great and i see something in you. he beli

. >> no, it's not a slight of hand by the biden administration or any prior administrations.we get are based on a limited survey taken the week of the 12th of the month, wherever the 12th falls. and it's it's increasingly difficult to get businesses to fill out those surveys, there's a lot of estimating involved. as a time goes by, we get more precise numbers based on larger samples and is forth. and for some reason, there's a tendency for it to be biased up. now, i would point out through both the trump and biden administrations we created many more jobs than was anticipated. the economy, since donald trump first became president in 2016, has grown at 2.5% a year. during the obama years it was 1.9. because at least even many biden, they made jobs a focus. mr. obama made regulation a focus. kevin: yeah, absolutely, that is true. lastly, mt. 30 seconds or so we have left, i would be remiss if i didn't ask you about fed rates. okay, i understand it's early in the game. the president's only been back in office for a horse amount of time. will -- for a short amount of time. will