hillary vaughn at the white house. how will this work?eal and can't stopping the idea of coming into the office to go to work, you can quit and get a paid for eight month vacation and federal government offering eight movements of paid leave where you don't have to work and can basically live like a free loader while you figure out your next career move. this way the federal government is getting rid of people they don't think are a productive use of taxpayer cash and can save money, downsiding the work force without actually having to fire a bunch of people. >> american workers and the middle class that keep this government up and running with their hard earned tax dollars have to show up to the office every day and president trump expects bureaucrats to do the same. if they don't like t guess what, they're getting a very generous payout from this administration. we're going to ensure the federal office building ins this city are filled with productive and excited workers. reporter: right now only about 6% of federal employees actually s

watchdog group revealing extent of how much money has been spent on these programs, "fox business" hillary vaughn live on capitol hill now with that angle hillary. >> good morning, maria. we are still doing the math to figure out how much dei cost taxpayers across 400 agencies the initial numbers from open the books mind-blowing according to open the books date, federal agencies spent millions on dei programs this is what we know about it is likely much worse, hhs spending 68 million dollars dei programs hiring 290 dei staffers, epa over three billion on dei, environmental justice grant program .200 dei staffers state department 73 million dollars requested for dei initiatives in 2025, the national science foundation allocating two billion dollars, in dei related grants, republicans have been applauding president trump for letting dei die. >> all federal workers, meritocracy should not be based on diversity equity inclusion it should be how do we get the best workers to do it this is nothing to do with opportunity for every everyone, this is cultural marxism dei meant to divide by race it is pois

hillary vaughn live on capitol hill with more. reporter: good evening, liz. may be on their own trying to avert this crisis by reviewing trump's tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year and democrats today made the case that the government imply cannot afford to let americans keep more of their own money. >> would you advise your client to ignore credit card debt or mortgage debt or property debt and take on more debt if they couldn't sustain it and complain about the debt they already have? would you tell your compliant to egg northe dead they have -- ignore the debt they have? >> no. reporter: the same democrats concerned about the national debt today not concerned when they supported $6 trillion in new spending under president biden and house ways and means committee heard from small business owners and stay at home moms and trump tax cuts critical to livelihood and cannot afford for taxes to go up. >> having sound tax policy that allows us to bring in revenue and grow our country is critical. it grew our economy, grew people out of poverty and helped

i want to go live the hillary vaughn right now on capitol hill. y, fox news' shannon bream reporting earlier that the justices seemed to support the ban. what do we know at this hour? >> reporter: yeah, cheryl. from listening to this hearing this morning, it seems like the supreme court justices are pretty skeptical of the idea that they would step in and overturn this ban that's expected to take effect in nine days from now. they heard from two attorneys who were trying to save tiktok from this ban, the attorney representing tiktok and also an attorney representing content creators that use tiktok. several justices though didn't seem to buy tiktok's claim that this divest order means that they are forced to shut down. multiple justices telling tiktok it's a choice. they could divest, but they are choosing not to. >> if bytedance divested the tiktok, we wouldn't be here, right? if bytedance was willing to let you go and willing to let you take the source code with you, that would be fine, right? we would not be here. >> what this law does is it say

liz: great reporting hillary vaughn, thank you so much. let's get to this , watch. >> why you mad at him for telling the truth? the situation is republicans treat democrats the way democrats treat republicans. i respect donald trump giving his inauguration speech telling all to your face -- >> it was such an easy -- >> barack obama walked in and they boo'd. liz: he appreciated how president trump told democrats, joe biden, kamala harris, barack obama, hillary and bill clinton right to their faces at his inauguration democrats derailed and damaged america. joining us rnc youth advisory council co-chair cj pierceon. always a pleasure to have you okay ban our show. so your reaction to this. the media is now saying president trump is doing more in four days, three days than biden did in four years to fix america. it's absolutely true and good to have a president whose coherent and knows he's indeed president. i've got four words for you, liz. promises made, promises kept. just a few weeks ago i was on your program, liz and i said it was time f

hillary vaughn on capitol hill. tell me more, hillary. >> reporter: stuart, dei is dead.ivisions, their diversity, equity and inclusion divisions. they're putting all dei staff on paid leave. they're also shutting down dei-related web sites. and trump appointees at all of the federal agencies are glad that they can just focus on the job in front of them. >> the way president trump is doing it is going right to the source of that decline, and he's getting rid of it root and branch. and dee's part of it. to your point, people would be shocked if they learned how much dei had been embedded in agencies. at the fcc alone, we were spending millions and millions of dollars promotion it. that's ending. >> reporter: trump signing an executive order declaring from now on jobs in the federal government will be awarded based on hard work and results. dei staff have been noted notifw on paid leave until further notice saying that dei programs can have, quote, divided americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination. the memo also says that any if effo

hillary vaughn is on capitol hill. all right, hillary, what's the number? >> reporter: hi, brian.out how much dei has cost taxpayers across over 4000 federal agencies -- 400 federal agencies, but the initial numbers are mind-blowing. according to research from open the books, federal agencies have spent millions on dei programs, and this is just what we know about. it's going to be much worse once everything is accounted for. hhs alone spending $68 million on dei programs including hiring 290 dei staffers. the epa spending $3 billion in taxpayer money on dei and environmental justice through a grant program employing 200 dei staffers. the state department spending $73 million, they requested that for dei initiatives in their budget in 2025, and the national science foundation, $2 billion in dei-related grants given out. republicans are applauding president trump for finally letting dei die. >> all federal workers ought to be done based on meritocracy. it shouldn't be based on diversity, equity and inclusion, it should be how do we get the best workers to do it. >> this has nothing

hillary vaughn thank you so much for that live report, your reaction to all of this. lee: i think fascinating that we are in a time again donald trump presidency where he goes talks about specific companies, this is the really -- we thought used to it, and we're back at it again companies trying to figure out how do we address these nominations all saying what is it that we are hearing out of statements are they saying never really did pull anybody's accounts because they are conservatives or saying there is something there underneath that we are trying to interpret what that meant people do say i do know conservatives charlie kirk out there a lot of controversy. cheryl: if i am jamie dimon or brian minehan going to do investigation see if lower level staffers may have taken matters into their hands i mean, these are large corporations with tens of thousands employees. john: if they find out staff was a at banks, were denying banking services, to customers because skrefrs not because told to do so staffers, bye-bye they are gone. cheryl: at scandal at wells fargo, thi

cheryl: , reports as wells fox hillary vaughn thank you so much, a new don there on capitol hill, thankou meanwhile, president trump is getting straight to work, edward lawrence reporting, lights on in residence signed off on 46 executive order actions. >> very simply we're going to make our country great our country great again america great again let's see what happens because we're not finished yet cheering cheering we're not finished yet. >> we've got a long way to go. cheryl: some orders include withdrawing from climate agreement world health organization declaring national energy emergency restoring federal death penalty protecting subsaid the order a declared emergency ordered wall resilient, "catch and release", "remain in mexico", and classified cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, parole applications i bring in ashley hinson member health appropriation china select republican study committees i start on china select committee i want to ask you about this one of the instructing attorney general not to enforce ban often tiktok for 57 days there have been reports that pres

hillary vaughn on capitol hill. hillary what, did trump ask the lawmakers to do?l, ultimately president elect trump needs every republican vote and he needs these republicans to go back and find the votes for his tax agenda and figure out what number they need to raise the salt cap to in order to support the legislation and get it through reconciliation and one of the lawmakers is new york congressman mike law herrera, who said his -- lawler who said his support is contingent on getting a salt cap lifted or raised. >> here's the reality, if we don't pass a tax bill, the cap on salt expires completely and we go back to unlimited. the problem is that it would be associated with the largest tax increase in american history. that's why we went down to meet with president trump and he understands this and said to us, i'm with you and come back with you and work through it. reporter: a lift would cost a lot of money, about $170 billion added to the debt and there's not a lot of bang for the buck for the middle class. it a perk mostly for the rich. a committee for respon

hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with the story. hillary. reporter: good evening, liz, president trump calling out big bank ceos in davos and putting them in the hot seat and demanding answers on why he's hearing about conservatives being blacklisted from some banks and now republicans in congress are pledging to get to the bottom and is that the banking committee expecting to hold a hearing season soon and looking into the problem of de-banking. >> regulators have to say there's a risk with customers and president trump will did i have cull i did getting bank account and now the gavel was shifted in the senate, the banking committee sunned republican control. we fully intend to take super-risupervisory action to gd look at this. reporter: banks say their hands are tied about who they do business with and don't much it's the laws on the books that are scaring banks with people out of fear that they're too risky and bank of america saying "we're required to follow extensionive government rules and regulations that sometimes result in decision

hillary vaughn on capitol hill. is this dividing even progressive lawmakers, hillary?hink this is is a terrible one, and congressman richy torres, democrat from new york chiming in on this idea tweeting: why not be bold and ask for a zero hour workweek? i wonder how blue collar americans feel about white collar workers demanding a 32-hour workweek? it was presented to top senate and house leadership and chuck schummer and mike johnson in a letter from the congressional staff association that write they hope a 32-hour workweek on the hill would cork as a pilot program to prove it could work on a nagsal scale. the group writing "by setting a 32 hour workweek as standard, staff could plan scheduled and importantly their rest and recovery days to maximize efficiency". national four day workweek is something senator bernie sanders pushed for and sanders prophoseed a 32-hour workweek nationwide and sanders has not endorsed this specific plan to institute that here on capitol hill, he spoke in support of the general idea to me yesterday. >> we're seeing huge advances in admin

fox business hillary vaughn live on capitol hill with a lot more. good morning, here we go. >> president-elect trump is not wasting a moment. today is a momentous and historic day for the celebration and also a time to get to work trump says he's going to deliver for the american people, the best first day biggest first week in extraordinary first 100 days of any president within the first hour and a half of being sworn in as the 47th president, trump is expected to sign 200 executive actions ranging from border security to energy production. >> every radical and foolish executive order of the biden the administration will be repealed within hours of when i take the oath of office. somebody said yesterday don't sign so many in one day. let's do it over a period of weeks and i said like hell were going to do over weeks we're going to sign them in one day. >> trump downsized inauguration due to the frigid temperatures outside is not putting a damper on the celebration inside the vip guest list is star-studded with ceos mark zuckerberg, jeff bezos, cm

hillary vaughn has the details. >> president-elect trump pass to make every republican happy with hise needs every g.o.p. vote that may be easier said than done we will have the latest on the negotiations to increase the tax deductions for're state and local taxes after the break. what are invoices? progressive makes it easy to see if you can save money with a commercial auto quote online so you can get back to all your other to-dos. absolutely not. get a quote at progressivecommercial.com. your loved ones are getting older, and they need your support. care.com is here to help. it's an easy way to find background-checked senior caregivers in your area. and some piece of mind. see why millions of families have trusted care. go to care.com now you didn't start a business just to keep the lights on. lucky for you, shopify built the just one-tapping, ridiculously fast-acting, sky-high sales stacking champion of checkouts. businesses that want to win, win with shopify. with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis my skin was no longer mine. my active psoriatic arthritis joint symptoms held me

hillary vaughn joins me from capitol hill. so, hillary, how are the banks responding? are denying it, after president trump really put major ceo's on the spot. he grilled them from the white house, all the way in davos about why conservatives are complaining that they are being iced out from doing business with major financial institutions. >> many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank, and that included a place called bank of america. i don't know if the regulators mandated that because of biden or what but you and jamie and everybody i hope you're going to open your banks to conservatives because what you're doing is wrong. reporter: but, they say in many cases their hands are tied about who they do business with and don't. bank of america saying in a statement, "we're required to follow extensive government rules and regulations that sometimes result indecisions to exit client relationships. we never close accounts for political reasons." jpmorgan ceo jamie dimon echoed that in a podcast this week. >> we're not al

hillary vaughn on capitol hill.new it had anostation doing to defend dog if she recollects reporter: stuart, multiple lawsuits were filed before president trump signed the executive order making department of government efficiency agency officially a part of the executive branch. it's that executive order that may make these lawsuits essentially dead because the lawsuits are based on the idea that doge would be an outside advisory committee and subject to federal rules governing advisory committees. but now that doge is a efficient part of the governments the lawsuits are a big swing and miss for the doge critics. one of them complaining "not a single member of doge is a federal employee or represents the perspective of federal employees but in the beginning that was the trump". trump picked outsider elon musk to cut through all the layers of fat built up in a loaded government bureaucracy. >> no, musk is getting in office for about 20 people that we're hiring to make sure that these get implemented. reporter: doge

hillary vaughn is on the hill. what's up now? >> well, we're still doing the math to figure out how much d.e.i. has cost taxpayers across over 400 federal agencies. the initial numbers coming in are in the millions and it is mind blowing. according to open the books federal agencies have spent millions on d.e.i. programs and this is just what we know about. it is going to be much worse. hhs spending $68 million on d.e.i. programs including employing over 290d.e.i. staffers. epa spending $3 billion on a d.e.i. and environment a.m. justice grant programming including 200 d.e.i. starters on the payroll. the national science foundation $2 billion in d.e.i.-related grants. republicans on capitol hill are applauding president trump for finally letting d.e.i. die. >> all federal workers ought to be done based on merit not diversity, equity and inclusion. how do we get the best workers to do it? nothing to do with opportunity for everyone. this is cultural marxism. d.e.i. was meant to divide the room by race and it is poison. >> some dem

but first hillary vaughn is following this part of the story for us on capitol hill. >> high, sandra. trump a pick for secretary defended trump tax cuts today saying that ultimately if the trump tax cuts were allowed to expire the results would be a mass of middle-class tax hike. he also said this is a pass or fail mission and if the tax cuts were to expire failure could mean economic calamity. he also warned congress that they're spending is out of control and that is part of the reason he decided to leave his private life or politics also so young that the government does not have a money problem they have a spending problem. >> is there any billionaire rich enough for you to support a tax cuts going forward? >> i think it is unwise to single out any. >> rich people. >> any individual. you have three people on top. mr. elon musk musk, mr. jeff bezos, mr. zuckerberg, almost worth a trillion dollars the three billionaires who you listed. >> they made the money themselves. >> many concerns that americans would end up picking up the tab for trump tariff plans. making the point that bide

hillary vaughn live on the hill to take us through that one. nice to see you, good morning to you.. >> good morning to you, bill. the flurry of lawsuits were filed before president trump signed that executive order making the department of government he i shall fen see officially part of the executive branch and that executive order that could be the nail in the coffin for these lawsuits because the people suing kind of jumped the gun. the lawsuits are based on the idea that doge would be an outside advisory committee and subject to federal rules governing advise recommittees. now it's an official part of the federal government the lawsuits are probably a big swing and miss for the doge critics. one of the lawsuits complained not a single member of doge is a federal employee or represents the perspective of federal employees. in the beginning that was kind of the point. trump handpicked an outsider, musk, to cut through the layers of fat built up in bloated government bureaucracy. >> will musk get a which is wing office. >> president trump: he is getting an office for 20 people tha

that's where we're going with hillary vaughn who is more on that story. hi, hillary.ress to not waste this opportunity of republican control to take advantage to tackle the debt. the committee for responsible federal budget warning, "our country's fiscal situation is bad and getting worse with the national debt on track to exceed its record as a share of the economy in just two years. we need an actual comprehensive budget resolution. it should include reconciliation instructions to reduce deficits as reconciliation is intended to do." president-elect trump's wish list includes border security to tax cuts but raising the debt ceiling to avoid the government defaulting on its debts. the government will likely run out of money by this summer forcing congress to address it something trump wants to get ahead of but some in congress disagree on whether to lump all this together in one bill or break it up into two. >> one bill, two bill, i don't really care. it's really about the details. yes, there's some concern about if it's all in one package, can you get everything don

hillary vaughn, is at a bad idea?said, "i have got to go." >> you have up on this mean a four day work week and that's different than 32 hours. if you get those three days and might be able to save money on day care, i get it. but if your answer is i said around for three hours so why not pay me for 32 question at the bigger question is why are you sitting around? i think that is what we have to get at. i wish we lived in an era to get things done and move the country forward to. back to jfk, it is not what the country can do for you but what you can do for the country. that is the mind-set i hope president trump brings up on monday. i will move you forward and give you the opportunity bite your answer can't be i would like to work less mr. president. best of luck, lower inflation. he will work seven days a week. >> sandra: did you pack your hand warmers? i pack everything, underwear, long johns. >> sandra: we don't want to know what you are wearing underneath, brand that we want to know you are talking on one nation

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