i didn't know the nation of the government at the new government. and when a, just before the end of the war, the all politicians coming out in the street and saying, we should complete kate screwed the she represent that difficult. they stood represent $27.00 and bes of the parliament. and they have to be taken into consideration. so that she off field trip in by it's right on one side and about domestically all the policy that are close to us who's saying they won't exclude those who represent the majority of this. yeah, because i'm on and hezbollah indeed represent the majority of the she ended up in. and so because of that, the more the all voice is saying we want to exclude the she off from the parliament and the government, the most sort of the battery, the, the among the population. even if many people were not very happy because of hezbollah, a box of patients and the consequences of the pots of patients and the war in support of god's uh, because of the devastating consequences. however, what came off to what brought the community together?

it is important the federal government and the state government and local governments work to really implement transformational change. this is an incredible opportunity. i have so much respect for president trump to put this initiative forward. he received an undeniable mandate in the last election. we now have the super majorities in an entire republican delegation we sent to washington, d.c., we did what president trump does. we told iowans what we were going to do and followed through with it. that is what americans expect. that is why 77 million people said president trump is who we want to restore america's greatness. >> i agree with you. thank you. mr. schatz, and your years, you give most eczema -- egregious examples of government spending you have seen? it is hard to come up with a few because are a lot. >> talked about broadband programs. not necessarily a wasteful expenditure. 133 broadband programs and 15 agencies are people either still not collected, $42 billion for the b program, not a penny has been spent. we want people to be connected with the internet. it is critic

government is incredibly important to make government strong. we can't be strong abroad if we're weak at home. so we need to make government work better, not get rid of it. - will. - well, you know, the problem with what mr. mcgovern said is that it's not about whether you like government or you dislike government. i mean, it's a necessary evil, as jefferson said, we're gonna have it. and so the question is how can you make it a better servant of the popular will, but also how you constrain what it does so that it doesn't try to do everything, which when it tries to do that, it doesn't do anything well. - last question to both of you. if you had one piece of advice you would offer to elon musk to get it right, if there were still an opportunity for him to correct course, what would it be? - i'd say focus on how government makes decisions. if you can streamline government decisions, give people authority to take responsibility, you will save countless billions, probably hundreds of billions of dollars, and make government much more responsive to

they want to reduce the size there to, of the government and not the government. but i of the bureaucracy that's, that's, that's a choice. you do the acts, you assigned people home and then you wouldn't be facing another social problem from the other hand because these people names work. so unless you start connecting based on your run, i'm have enough jobs in the market. this would be only, i think, for the burden off the, the social or the social role of the government. so you don't really see the confusion, oliver has, you know, how much subjects take it step by step. i'm, let's see if i is the upcoming transitional government is inclusive. if to come across with a good sieves, um, good history of a pro 4 is a bunch of as least investors in key areas within each technical ministry from agriculture to the communication, to power, to uh, uh, oil and administer the resources are appointed and make one then yes, this my task hold on, i believe they have no other force bought to go the off. the question would be also, if we're going to have this, the duration who is

could he cause for the government? so this is a really important point that you make. and while it's obviously true that has bella is no longer a dominant player in the new government. it's still a significant play a and with it's l i the, the, i'm a move in. it has participated in selecting the new finance minister, which is a very important biased in any lebanese government. because simply because any action the government wants to take, which involves a public expenditure, needs the signature of the finance minister creating an effective fee tardy. so that is something that in successive government has bella and its allies have clung to making sure that they lead the selection of the finance ministry. and it's for this reason, but at the same time, as elliot mentioned, there's a real motive for a full. there is no, it blocking 3rd. so no single faction has the capacity to threaten to bring down the entire government. and also, what has bella has conceded in this new government is selecting all 5 she or ministers. no

kim reynolds and citizens against government waste, testifying before the government reform committee. watching live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span three, our c-span now our free mobile app and online on c-span.org. a press conference held on the trump administration's second term and expected to cover executive actions on tariffs, the border and government agencies. host: welcome to today's "washington journal." the article on the page is musk puts employees on usaid on leave. foreign aid agency heads to, quote, the wood chipper. puttingn leave and terminating contracts after tech billionaire elon musk said he was in the process of shutting down the agency that oversees foreign aid. musk claimed on social media early monday morning that he ran the extraordinary move by president donald trump and had his full backing. it raised immediate objections from democrats who said trump lacks the constitutional authority to eliminate usaid, which was established by congress as an independent agency in 1998. let's take a look at what secretary of state marco rubio said about closing usaid when

the government, when the federal government to shut down, it affects tourism, it affects the economy,t affects everything. yes, there maybe some people who do need to work from home. people being at work is like an economy in and of itself. host: as you said, you are a businessman and you have questioned elon musk not to approach the federal government as he would in sizing one of his businesses. what you see is the fundamental difference there of how elon musk should approach the good objective of reducing fraud? guest: this is a piece that was in the baltimore sun on sunday, and while you may have these noble intentions, you cannot run a private business the way you run the federal government. you can go in and you can cut and slash, but in government, you've got to respect the processes. elon musk, as well intended as he may be, he has to work with congress. he has to work with people within these agencies that you have to trust the circuits that are billing. there are people willing to tell you where the waste and fraud is you cannot just go and shutdown agencies and not realize t

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this is not a rightsizing of government. this is a dumb sizing of government, and this has to stop. congress has oversight over this. what are we doing about this? we are talking to the governor of iowa, no offense. we are talking to think takes -- tanks we are talking to folks , who are not actually doing this work. let's actually give the american people answers. let's give our constituents answers and actually use congress's powers to fight this or at least figure out how we can work together to fix what is wrong in government. i am down to do that. i know both sides of the aisle want to do that. the american people deserve to know what is going on, why it is happening, and how to fix this, but what is happening right now is way overstepping the bounds of executive power. it is overstepping congress's power. we are getting rid of agencies that congress authorized and going way over the line, and this is unprecedented and needs to stop. we are going to continue to ask questions, ask for hearings, and ask for the people who are actually doing this, because we want answers. i yield

he is the head of the newly created department of governing -- government efficiency. she recited congress would introduce legislation to intervene. this briefing is about half an hour. sen. schumer: good afternoon, everybody. i'm proud to be joined by senators murray, warren, schatz, and wyden. now, before our very eyes -- sorry, before our very eyes, an unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. last friday, doge forcefully gained access to the treasury department's payment systems and to the most sensitive information of virtually every u.s. citizen. donald trump basically handed doge the social security data of virtually every american citizen. donald trump, he gave -- donald trump gave doge access to america's personal tax refund data. he gave doge access to people's medicare and medicaid benefits, disability payment data, veteran benefit data. worst of all, we don't know what doge intends to do with this information. if you want to know how an unelected shadow government operates, look no further than doge. those staff

this is your government. and you can hate parts of it and love parts of it and be neutral about other parts of it, but it's still your government. and the way a person expresses their views about spending is by electing a member of congress who believes what they believe. and so if anyone in the trump administration wants to modify the spending law that was enacted, you've got to come back to congress and modify the law that was enacted. this is not some minor transgression. this is an illegal act. they stormed into buildings. they shut down agencies illegally and sure, first it was usaid. but they are now systematically going into the small business administration, the department of the treasury, and they will not stop until they believe they have total control over spending, and that's not the way the american system of government is supposed to work. >> i know, senator schatz, you had put a hold on all state department nominees, but this is to all of you. why not go to the mat? you have all these nominees

and so why does a non mics departments of government efficiency sit within the us government? and indeed within the constitution asked of richard pills, a professor of constitutional law of the new york universe state school level. so the president has said that this entity is actually part of an existing entity in the government of it's designed to deal with digital services issues. and he has recently said that eli mosque is a what is called a special government employee, which is a recognized category in the law. but it's a temporary category. you can serve as a special employee like this for about 4 months. there also still various requirements for any special government employee which we don't know whether you are mosque is, in fact replied with there are disclosure requirements about financial information, for example, measures to deal with potential conflicts of interest. so um, there are lots of questions around all of this, and one of the issues is we don't have a lot of transparency. yes. about many of the questions surrounding of the role that you on must use is pla

, the federal government spent $3.6. today that number is 70 300 billion, 100 times -- 110 times in 100 years. or 11,100% in the center. there are 400 executive branch agencies. some agencies have 1000 federal boards and commissions. we should look to the states and we have governor reynolds here. governor, i commend you for taking the cabinet position numbers from 37 to 16, and limiting 500 unfilled positions and 83 state boards and commissions. how much is it projected to save your taxpayers? gov. reynolds: in the first 18 months, $217 million. that exceeded our original projections for four years. we will continue to see savings as we move forward as we really have visibility into the agencies and look for opportunities to continue to make us better. rep. fallon: $217 million. having been in the state legislature for a few years, that is good money for a state like the size of iowa. what is the feedback you are receiving from, is it iowans? what are they telling you about this? gov. reynolds: they appreciate it. i hav

my thing is right here, there is no government, there is no government, there is no government efficiencydoge. what is doge? somebody going to create it? that is just created by the king, donald trump. it is amazing to me that people are falling in line until their social security gets hurt, everything gets hurt. there is going to be some hurt going on here. i got so much going on in my mind right now because i can't believe the people are falling in line for this foolery. this foolery. it is just straight foolery that these people are falling in line for a crazy guy that is going from agency to agency to agency to agency to fix them. republicans, you will pay for it in the midterms. they are going to pay for it in the midterms. i am saying that now. they are going to pay for it in the midterms. but the crazy part is that they just sit back and don't say nothing. nothing. this guy is -- he got my access. he got your access. he got everybody's access to their accounts, to what they file in taxes, and file. it is amazing that people are that slow, i want to be nice and say they are slow, es

i'm the director of government affairs at the project on government oversight. appreciate the opportunity to be with you here today to talk about the critical issue of bringing more accountability and transparency to federal spending including rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. since our founding in 1981 we've been focused on promoting more accountability and rooting out wasteful spending and promoting efficiency especially at the department of defense. we have a long and well established track record on these issues and we take a -- when it comes to promoting a better and more effective government which necessarily includes a federal government that is a good and responsible steward of taxpayer dollars. let's take a moment to pause to talk about terms that we'll hear a lot today and the difference between them. waste is different from fraud. fraud is different from abuse. abuse is different from both. when we talk about improper payments they are is subset of the other three categories. it doesn't tell us the whole picture, either. sometimes improper payments

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no, no, no it's a government within the government.s what they are talking about the subterranean government. we have a gao report the government accountability office. stay with me on this. this came out a few months ago they put up this report and congress had it. and the president had it, and the media had it and most of you never heard about it. listen to this, fraud risk management 2018 -- 2022 that period of time show federal government loses an estimated 233 billion to $521 billion every single year. that's a quarter of a trillion to half a trillion dollars every single year to fraud based on various risk environments. listen to me, we've got to get her capitalist right our brains write fright for the democrats e left, for the self-perpetuating bureaucracy this is not fraud. this is a waste and it is abuse. it is routine. this is how they want to operate. this is their money. and by the way they push their ideological agenda. that is what it is for. so, for them it's not fraud, waste, abuse paid for them it is a lifeline. a quar

government. establishe in 1961. the workforce totals more than 10,000 with approximately two thirds of that workforce serving overseas. in 2023, usaid provided assistance to approximately 130 countries. that is according to the congressional research service. regarding the budget of usaid, so this would be fiscal year 2023, $40 billion in combined appropriations, representing mon onthird of the funds department of state, foreign operations, and related programs appropriation, and international food aid provided in the agriculture appropriation. this is kathleen in georgetown, delaware, democrat. caller: good morning mimi and buddy out there. i have concerned. i don't know if everybody happened to see this but there was a robbery and at the end but it was not certain elon musk n gave th -- elon musk gave the nazi salute. i saw that. there was a rally in germany and he was up on the stage jumping up and down at a neo-nazi celebration or whatever. votes will be taken inhe

fund the government. since the inauguration, president trump and republicans have been actively working to shut down the government entirely on their own. see research institutions, protections for americans, no one is working hard right now to shut down the government then donald trump and congressional republicans. [end video clip] host: that was senator schumer yesterday and we are taking your calls, what is the message to congress on the trump agenda for the next 15 minutes. we got somcoents from facebook. michael ss, yes, we democrats ne tlet the american people know that the legislative, executive and judicial branches exist to hold each other to account and ensure checks and nces. suzette said trump is doing the pework and doing exactly what he was voted in to promises made, promises cut, the plan to attack the problem of the nation's bt in fact, they have no planet at all other than to add it. keeley says and here's dolores, democrat, tennessee. caller: morning, can you understand me? i had surger

dylan, the director of government affairs at the project on government oversight. dylan leads advocacy efforts on policy reforms to a wide range of governments. i thank each of our witnesses for being here today and i look forward to your testimony. pursuant to committee rule nine g, the witnesses will please stand and raise their right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god. let the record show that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you, you may take a seat. we appreciate you being here today and look forward to your testimony. let me remind the witnesses that we have read your written statement and it will appear in full in the hearing record. please limit your oral statement to five minutes. as a reminder, please press the button on the microphone in front of you so that it is on and the members can hear you. when you begin to speak, the light in front of you will turn green. after four minutes the light will turn yellow. when the red li

save the government money? make sure our systems are working? that's within the mission of how do we make government work more effectively, more efficiently? what we're talking about here is potentially breaking how government works, undermining how government works, and people who haven't gone through the basic protections to ensure that our data is safe are getting access to it. that's why the judge acted so quickly, said our claims were extremely strong and went ahead to prevent this information from being accessed and, as you noted, requires it now to be destroyed. this is a moment where we need to protect our republic, to make sure we operate faithfully to the laws, and we don't do what you put. well, a bell that can't be unrung you take this information and you stop it from being used properly. people don't get their social security checks. people's private information gets used in ways that can undermine their safety. this is a critical moment to stand up for a government that works for the people and do

there are roles for government, state and local governments. engage with a wide range of technology companies as it does on an ongoing basis. those engagements were focused at the strategic level. we were talking about the kind of evolving adversary tools and tactics. not at the level of the account, that conversation happens, the fbi conducts that kind of conversation. and in terms of our engagements with state and local officials, robust and regular. state and local officials around the country and places they work. we held regular briefings. when we policed one of the routine election security updates, we provided briefings are offered them to state and local officials so there were no surprises. i think they are incredibly important actors in this ecosystem on the front lines conduct. and we view our role as the federal government to support them and their work. >> let me ask you enclosing. how should the u.s. government, future administration, assess the threat of malign foreign influence and act on their view of the rat? >> i view this as

in the government. oppose the goals stated by the department of government efficiency to always make government better. al gore had that when he was vice president. and within government you often have things where they go too far. a good idea isn't necessarily a better idea if you do it to the extreme. good ideas are to go and build the next one. we should be evaluating all of those things. unfortunately i don't think the administration is looking to see where they have gotten too fat. create more efficiency. they have come in with the intention of retribution, antagonism, prejudice, meanness and cruelty. i'm happy to have the conversation about how to improve programs. every program in the government, how can we make it better? has it outlived its usefulness? can we replace it with something that takes us to a better place or puts us in a better direction ? unfortunately that's not what we are seeing in this administration. host: other programs that you can see that have outlived their usefulness? gue

, all the israeli government during that period. but she was just thrilled to get him back and we spoke to his 9 year old daughter. he said that after all of that time, the one thing she wants to do was just give her dad a big house. is there any media reporting that the ministry has begun withdrawing from the nets, or we can call her door in gaza in the safe side deal the deadline for them to do so. it completely is sunday. the next room, car doors and militarism about 6 kilometers wind that splits northern gauze from the rest of the strip. is there any forces of the military bases there off of taking up a buildings and destroying homes? no day has more from a mountain because these rain, the government and i'll assume you know, authority a band out as they are from reporting inside israel and the outside west banks. this is really media reports talk about the beginning of the withdrawal of israeli troops from the so called net setting chord or now what is this core door? it is basically the area where the illegal supplement of net

we'll say, remember how the labour government of 2024 learnt how hard it was to govern?hink that's right. as sort of having a bit of a virtuous reputation. i think there is something maybe wider this is for two years "mr rules", as you said, he was sometimes known. it was ever very golden. we should just bring you also what andrew gwynne himself has journalism system works, we rang him or we texted him this morning. i'm sure you did the same. can't we, henry, that this sort of behaviour by backbench mps who are in opposition is very of ministerial power probably, although i think if this had come out, if andrew gwynne were a backbench labour mp i mean, i think even if people have a high tolerance for kind of private chat with mates, which is what this appears to be, it's at the really extreme end of that. you have to wonder also, for andrew gwynne, who was the person who, if something he thought information to the mayor? on that is the mail on sunday says that at least one other labour mp is in this group. have a decision editorially not to name that mp, but i think why

it is important the federal government and the state government and local governments work to really implement transformational change. this is an incredible opportunity. i have so much respect for president trump to put this initiative forward. he received an undeniable mandate in the last election. we now have the super majorities in an entire republican delegation we sent to washington, d.c., we did what president trump does. we told iowans what we were going to do and followed through with it. that is what americans expect. that is why 77 million people said president trump is who we want to restore america's greatness. >> i agree with you. thank you. mr. schatz, and your years, you give most eczema -- egregious examples of government spending you have seen? it is hard to come up with a few because are a lot. >> talked about broadband programs. not necessarily a wasteful expenditure. 133 broadband programs and 15 agencies are people either still not collected, $42 billion for the b program, not a penny has been spent. we want people to be connected with the internet. it is critic

and you also have members of the former government, former members have nothing you know, whose government speaking out putting out quite agree just statements about a fire belt in gaza that israel should continue to bomb the palestinian territory and even attacked the aid that has already went in there before cutting it off entirely, but it's important to remember that before this deal had even come to fruition before it even went into effect. members of the right wing who are some part of the government said they got assurances from benjamin netanyahu. that this deal would not continue after phase one, meaning that a return to the fighting a return to full scale war would ensue. and that phases $2.00 and $3.00 wouldn't happen. but despite all of that, the family numbers of captives, especially those who are not set to be released until phase 2 are pointing the finger at missing. yahoo! who's saying that this is all his fault, that this deal was on the table back in may of 2024. and this could have happened so much sooner. you even have the countries, former defense minister, you'll have

federal government is the most indebted governments on the face of the earth.latest available data federal debt reached 110% of gdp. we passed 96%. ranking 18th highest out of 161 countries for which the ims international monetary fund japan tops the ranking the central government debt at 214% of gdp followed by greece, eritrea, italy, singapore, aren't we proud? not long ago u.s. was among the least indebted countries in 2001 u.s. federal debt was 41% of g gdp. lower than debt levels found in 99 other countries. what happened? obama, the pandemic, and biden. for that is what happened. this is from the u.s. treasury department fiscal report that debt to gdp ratio was approximate 97% at the end of fy 2023. we just talked about that under current policy and based on this report's assumptions it is projected to be and i'm underscoring this, 531% of 2098. they continue to ride the debt to gdp ratio indicates the current fiscal policy unsustainable. unsustainable the word used by the treasury department. unsustainable the word used by the office of management and bu

kind of government has to go down. but perhaps not only the government but the system itself because the uh system divides uh, designed by all kinds of what it shows being uh wrong by one thing. and that is like typical accountability for last 13 years. there is no single member of government who has been arrested a diving board or forced to resign. so literally there is no up front of you. like the end of the judge didn't happen to know the side was one of the uh, tragic outcomes of, of the kind of government. and i think this is the point in time where we had to that safe enough is enough. that is what students are doing good at the moment, but here's the thing. all right, so we have 15 people at killed and the train station. when this translation category a collapse, the people are blaming a corruption in a system which meant that the design and the materials used what, what sub standard, no arrest demonstrates has beaten up thousands, hundreds of thousands of students taking it to the streets. but the faith, the in

government the ramifications of what he is doing to cut the government is going to affect all of us asens here. and it doesn't necessarily strike me as while the tactics are the same the stakes are much higher here, i think. caroline: they are, but some people like it. palantir, the cto, was on the call saying palantir's real petition is a lack of accountability and they think doge is going to bring transparency to government. even though it is a wrecking ball, could have posited -- positive impacts for companies here? kurt: i think in much the same way he succeeded in cutting costs at twitter i have no doubt he will cut costs at the u.s. government and find things that, quite frankly, all of us would be scratching our heads assange, we were paying for what? i have no doubt those things exist and they will hopefully be uncovered, but i also think there are probably a lot more thoughtful ways to go about doing this. the thing we know from elon over covering him from years and watching him with all his companies is he tends to not worry about the collateral damage, right? he simply says,

my thing is right here, there is no government, there is no government, there is no government efficiencydoge. what is doge? somebody going to create it? that is just created by the king, donald trump. it is amazing to me that people are falling in line until their social security gets hurt, everything gets hurt. there is going to be some hurt going on here. i got so much going on in my mind right now because i can't believe the people are falling in line for this foolery. this foolery. it is just straight foolery that these people are falling in line for a crazy guy that is going from agency to agency to agency to agency to fix them. republicans, you will pay for it in the midterms. they are going to pay for it in the midterms. i am saying that now. they are going to pay for it in the midterms. but the crazy part is that they just sit back and don't say nothing. nothing. this guy is -- he got my access. he got your access. he got everybody's access to their accounts, to what they file in taxes, and file. it is amazing that people are that slow, i want to be nice and say they are slow, es

with the democrat government, democrats in government working with social media and others to suppresse speech. certainly during the pandemic. europe has blown out a gigantic welfare state and have reduced their military spending just like canada which the u.s. pays for. the u.s. supports them with massive defensive spending. let's get your reaction to this. you know, you and i were just talking about j.d. vance under fire for calling out europe for censorship. listen to german prosecutors on "60 minutes" on how far they are going with censorship. watch this. >> it's illegal to display nazi symbolism, the holocaust that's clear. is it a crime to insult somebody in public? >> yes. >> yes, it is. >> and it's a crime to insult them online as well? >> yes. >> the fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet. >> why? >> because in internet it stays there. if we are talking face-to-face, you insult me, okay. finished. but if on the internet if i insult you or a politician. liz: this is how crazy the far left liberals have gotten in germany. it's a crime to insult somebody

the department of government efficiency which is not a government agencies but it may be special governmentloyees, that is all up for grabs. there have been already lawsuits involving the office of personnel management, usaid, the agency for national development, the treasury department i mentioned already. we have heard about doge individuals inside even some of the intelligence systems as well as inside the fbi, we have heard of some spacex individuals. a lot of what i say in my world is it depends because facts matter. there is a difference between these individuals having access to unclassified systems and classified systems. obviously if it is a classified system, they are required to have security clearance. it is unclear for many of these whether in fact that is the case. some of these doechii employees -- some of these deluge employees i will say in air quotes appear to be employees from agencies walking around the halls with badges issued by other agencies to show that at least they might have some authorized access or security clearance. some of the more controversial doge employe

and if you really did want to shrink the federal government, you wanted to save the federal government money, that would you'd go about it some something like that. it would be a version of that. tom. so i guess the other question that arises is, are they intending to put it back together? was it intentionally clunky, intentionally going to leave the federal government? not functional? >> the goal of all this is to break the government and make sure that it doesn't work, and that when people are finally replaced, they're replaced with loyalists. this is just a spoil system in in effect, this isn't about the effective administration of the government of the united states. this is about a kind of diffuse contempt for anyone working in public service. and this notion that, you know, most people who work for the government don't do anything useful. they can all be dispensed with, which is what people always think, because when they don't understand how their own government works, that's a very common problem. and then to make sure that whoever is left is either too scared or so loyal that

they just need that encouragement from government. i ask is come to the nonh government.come to the north and tell our story. >> tell the story. what about brexit? do you think it's time that the labour government just embraced the opportunity of brexit? the brexit has allowed the government, hasn't it, to add vat to private school fees, for example, rather than see it as just own it, own the issue? i think that would discombobulate reform possibly. >> yeah, i believe yes, we've had more freedoms. we couldn't have done that without coming out of the eu. i think i do talk to local businesses and they do want better. they're fed up with the custom, the ties and customs filling out loads and loads of forms. we can make that easier. and that's what our government is negotiating on, is getting better trade between here and the european union. what people don't want is those those ties that tied us into those, that legislation that actually constricted the work that we did in terms of building trade opportunities. >> just while i've got you a jo ann, great to see you here on as

and the government would love to be an audi. and now for competing, but through all the joint and constructive work, uh, i know the life of this government is limited. however, the self funding of people is not the major to divide the duration of a government's ikea. before my, i use the we need to establish and they need foundations for reform, and i'm collaboration with the president and they use their own. the principals as he has established in his or so we need to build and you live alone. we don't have any time to waste on. let's start immediately. thank you. all right, so just a collection of what i said that we were listening to the prime minister designate not entry and me a prime minister. no offense alarm. i'm giving us a sense of a politically the direction of the country is going a huge. i'm speculation over the formation of the government that it will did take the future. the country let's go to live to, is that, you know, hold up who joins us on the line from the day we pay, we to, for the latest say not an awful

we provide information to the government because government provides us with basic benefits when we needy to just come in, take the data and then use it for, for, for, for, for their private benefit. that is fundamentally opposed to notions of privacy and notions of, you know, what government exists to do. and that's why we're so happy, you know, that there are. government employees who are standing in the breach and trying to prevent that from happening, but they're paying a really big cost for it. and that's why the fight back is so important. >> sorry. >> sue, less than 30s, but i do. >> need to know. >> former congresswoman. >> lori. >> chavez-deremer is going to have her confirmation hearings. >> this week. the one. question you would. >> ask her? >> working people deserve a strong voice in the cabinet and a strong voice in the government. what are you going to do to really stand on the side of working people? you know, we demonstrated under president biden what it means to be pro worker and pro union. we weren't done. i'm not saying we did everything needed to be done, but there's

federal government. these interest payments pay our masters who own our debt and the american people are in debt to everyone who owns our debt. their crippling national debt and massivelyow growing interest will destroy us and not destroy one political party or the other, it will destroy all of us together. petrides inflation making life and affordable for american struggling to financially survive. it's crippling small businesses. her massively growing debt and interest are the and shackles harnessing every american and their children and every generation to come but first let's be brutally honest about how this massive debt came to be in the first place. it came from congress and from elected presidential of administrations. i believe our nation in debt is one of the biggest betrayals against the american people by its own elected government. the american people's anger over this betrayal is what gave birth to the concept of doge the department of government efficiency but in fact doge became a major p

there's a hitch here because these really government, which is the most bright when government is really history, is not in agreement on the idea of ending the war. in fact, administer of the, in this coalition. it's a mart bank via who was the minister of national security, and his party withdrew from the government because they agreed to phase one. there's another minister, but southern smart scripts, the minister of finance. he has threatened to not only withdraw from the government but to topple it, to take it down. if that's on yahoo agrees to ending the war. and that's why we're now hearing some test bubble. some leaks about possibly extending phase one and not necessarily really go into phase 2 or maybe agreeing to ending the war. if him, us agrees to exile all of its members and leaders who remain alive in god. but it's difficult to see how, how most would agree to that, but that then yeah, who is still buying time. he's sending a delegation to do how to begin discussions on face to and, but he's already saying this with these will be technical discussions because the security ca