Russ Vought
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We intend to take the Doge agenda and the cuts and the momentum and the initiative and turn those into permanent savings. That's what we believe is our responsibility.
We intend to take the Doge agenda and the cuts and the momentum and the initiative and turn those into permanent savings. That's what we believe is our responsibility.
We intend to take the Doge agenda and the cuts and the momentum and the initiative and turn those into permanent savings. That's what we believe is our responsibility.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Thanks for having me, Charlie. President Trump and the White House are sending up to Congress when they get back in two weeks a proposal to get cut a billion dollars for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. That's predominantly NPR, PBS, which isn't just leftist indoctrination.
Thanks for having me, Charlie. President Trump and the White House are sending up to Congress when they get back in two weeks a proposal to get cut a billion dollars for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. That's predominantly NPR, PBS, which isn't just leftist indoctrination.
where you're not covering the Hunter Biden laptop or the fact that the Wuhan lab leaked the coronavirus, but you're actually on the forefront of the cultural revolution in this country and pushing programmatic coverage to children about drag queens, dividing us, doing documentaries about white privilege and reparations.
where you're not covering the Hunter Biden laptop or the fact that the Wuhan lab leaked the coronavirus, but you're actually on the forefront of the cultural revolution in this country and pushing programmatic coverage to children about drag queens, dividing us, doing documentaries about white privilege and reparations.
And then on the other hand, we have $8.3 billion in doge cuts to USAID, which is all the things that we've heard that shock the conscience of waste, fraud, and abuse there.
And then on the other hand, we have $8.3 billion in doge cuts to USAID, which is all the things that we've heard that shock the conscience of waste, fraud, and abuse there.
Everything from paying for Sesame Street in Iraq to voter ID in Haiti to just flat-out pushing of an LGBTQ movement in all of these countries, strengthening the resilience of these movements, programs like Being Gay in the Caribbean,
Everything from paying for Sesame Street in Iraq to voter ID in Haiti to just flat-out pushing of an LGBTQ movement in all of these countries, strengthening the resilience of these movements, programs like Being Gay in the Caribbean,
Over and over, when you scratch the surface of all of these programs, literally, development assistance, economic support, all of the programs at USAID, you found this funding of a leftist NGO operation that was pushing a very, very woke cultural agenda. We're sending that up to get rid of it, make these cuts permanent. They've been on hold.
Over and over, when you scratch the surface of all of these programs, literally, development assistance, economic support, all of the programs at USAID, you found this funding of a leftist NGO operation that was pushing a very, very woke cultural agenda. We're sending that up to get rid of it, make these cuts permanent. They've been on hold.
We want to make them permanent, and we need Congress's vote in this particular set of funds to do so.
We want to make them permanent, and we need Congress's vote in this particular set of funds to do so.
Sure, and this is just the first of a series of rescissions bills. As we get comfortable with what's the annual amount of permanent savings that can be done, and if it's multi-year money, we're going to go ahead and send those up, so long as Congress is actually going to be passing those. That's critical.
Sure, and this is just the first of a series of rescissions bills. As we get comfortable with what's the annual amount of permanent savings that can be done, and if it's multi-year money, we're going to go ahead and send those up, so long as Congress is actually going to be passing those. That's critical.
We have executive tools that we can use if Congress is not going to pass these bills, but they've been demanding them. The process is one of an exception β