maybe john steward showed up and that helped too. but in any case, for our nations 9 million veterans they rely on the va for health care and when you start freezing things, why do you think happened, in less than a month in office the president has disrupted the va's critical work including by initially stopping the department from hiring nurses, doctors and hospital support staff just when there's a shortage of medical staff across the country. by the way, there's a reason it's sunny today because they might, sunshine in what they are doing today. >> all right. >> they fired the directors of offices serving women's veterans, the largest growing group of veterans and they attacked initiative that make it easier for rural and disabled veterans to access va benefits, none of this is going to make life better for our veterans. none of this treats our employees at the va with the dignity they deserve. i watch every say when i'm in minnesota and one in our va facilities how the employees treat our veterans with dignity. they deserve dign

for the most part with some increase in our non tidelands trust property areas that decrease in john steward housing revenues that i mentioned and most other other categories being relatively flat on the this is the authority to components that make up the authority cost budget. you can see on the first two lines just over $4 million in tighter staff and salaries representing more than 25% of our overall budget. but the other elements that make up the title budget on the city cost side again the city costs are costs of of other city agencies in support of the development program. so public works inspection services puc and mta design review services etc. these budgets are are fully billable to to cd within this category our expenses in 2324 were 1.7 below our established budget or 27% below our established budget for fiscal year 25 and we expect our final expenditures within the current fiscal year 25 to be similarly below budget. there will be a ramp up this spring in the stage two work as i discussed earlier but the state that increase of of activity going into next year and the increase i

. >> john: he is saying, bret, we need to be good stewards of taxpayer money and in order to do that we have to go through all of the budgets with a fine-tooth comb. then you have the article three section of government going after the article two section of government and then you've got the article one section of government going after article two. the president is beset here from both sides, but he seems to be forging ahead with this idea that taxpayers deserve to have an honest accounting of where their money is being spent. >> i think you are right. maybe we needn't i'm just a bill sitting on capitol hill cartoon, pretty soon a whiteboard showing everything that happens. i think what elon musk said in the oval office was significant, one that there are payments going out of treasury that don't have what they are listed to pay, essentially flying out blank checks to things they have been paying for many years that no one has really checked into, which means that congress could authorize or allocate money a certain way but there could be money going out all over the place that doe

stewards of tax dollars. but there are these groups and individuals threatened by it because they want the money. >> john: billion billion here, pretty soon you're talking about real money mr. administrator. the attitude towards the democrats as sandra pointed out, they are taking to the streets and singing in the streets shouting f you to elon musk and donald trump. sean hannity asked elon musk in preparation for the interview but listen to what musk said about trump derangement syndrome becoming viral. was at a birthday dinner and it was a nice, quiet dinner and i happen to mention before the election a month or two before i mentioned the president's name and it was like they got shot with a door. that contained methamphetamine and rabies. guys, we can even have a normal conversation. it is like they are completely irrational. >> john: as we have seen and the program 2011, barack obama made a point to test waste and abuse and trim the size of the government in 1993. and the clinton administration looking to do the same thing first year in office. wanted to cut the federal workforce twice as much as what donald