DOGE continues its cost-cutting mandate, Trump takes 'presidential action' against elite law firms, and Mainers resoundingly men staying out of women's sports. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.Beam: Head to https://shopbeam.com/WIRE and use code WIRE at checkout for up to 40% off.Good Ranchers: Visit https://go.goodranchers.com/4hPfmTE for free bacon, ground beef, bacon, seed oil free chicken nuggets, or salmon in every order for a year + $40 off with code WIRE.
Chapter 1: How much has DOGE saved taxpayers?
Doge continues its cost-cutting mandate, saying they've already saved $100 billion. That's $800 per taxpayer.
The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government, it is astonishing. It's mind-blowing.
I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
It's Friday, March 28th, and this is Morning Wire.
Trump takes presidential action against the elite law firms that targeted him.
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Chapter 2: What actions has Trump taken against law firms?
We've taken action against a number of law firms that have participated either in the weaponization of government, the weaponization of the legal system for political ends, or have otherwise engaged in illegal or inappropriate activities.
Chapter 3: Why is Maine's governor defying Trump's order?
And voters in Maine overwhelmingly support taking men out of women's sports. But the state's governor is still defying Trump's order.
You can't create laws by thinking them, by tweeting them, by issuing press releases, by issuing executive orders. Congress makes the laws.
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Chapter 4: What are the recent changes at HHS?
The Trump administration and Doge are continuing their efforts to slash federal spending, with major cuts to the health department announced Thursday.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with the latest. Hey, Cabot. So it's full steam ahead for Doge. This time it's RFK making some very significant cuts. What are we seeing from him and his department?
Well, we just saw one of the largest cuts to the federal workforce since Donald Trump took office. This time it was the Department of Health and Human Services on the chopping block. Secretary Kennedy announced Thursday morning that they'd be cutting 10,000 jobs from across the department. When all is said and done, that'll be 20% of the entire HHS workforce.
Among others, the FDA will let go 3,500 employees, though Kennedy did stress that the cuts would not impact inspectors looking at drugs, medical devices, and food. The NIH will lose 1,200 workers, the CMS 300, and the CDC 2,400. The list goes on. The overhaul will also eliminate 13 of the department's 28 existing divisions and create a new administration for a healthy America.
According to Kennedy, the cuts will save taxpayer money and force health agencies to become more efficient.
When I arrived, I found that over half of our employees don't even come to work. As part of President Trump's Doge Workforce Reduction Initiative, we're going to streamline HHS and make our agency more efficient and more effective.
We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHAH.
The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles spoke with Kennedy at the White House yesterday. Here he is with an example of just some of the wasteful spending he says he's encountered within the agency.
Putting the money and the personnel in there is not alone going to solve the problem. And what I found when I came to HHS was really a sprawling bureaucracy. We have over 100 communications departments.
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Chapter 5: How is DOGE eliminating federal waste?
Public universities in Maine are backing down from their transgender policies, but Democrat Governor Janet Mills is still refusing to comply with Trump's order on girls' sports.
Here with the details is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo. So, Amanda, what did Governor Mills say this week about Trump's order?
Hey, Georgia. Yeah, she said that order has no power and it's not law, and she also said that she just won't comply. Here she is speaking to reporters on Monday.
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My issue is about the rule of law, pure and simple. It's not about transgender sports. It's about who makes the laws and who enforces the laws. I read the Constitution. It doesn't allow him to make laws out of whole cloth.
Now, it is true that congressional Republicans have been slow to codify Trump's order on girls' sports. However, Title IX separates sports based on sex to ensure equal opportunity. And it was only during the Biden administration that the federal government decided to interpret Title IX through the lens of so-called gender identity. And Trump, of course, is very much not on board with that.
Additionally, a total of eight public universities in Maine have said that they will comply with Trump's order. That change was made in response to the Department of Agriculture threatening to withhold federal funding over this issue. Now, other investigations have been opened by different departments into these transgender policies in Maine.
And Health and Human Services said that they actually did find Title IX violations and they gave the state 10 days to comply with Trump's order. That letter was sent on March 19th. I spoke to MaineWire's editor-in-chief, Steve Robinson, about potential consequences over all of this noncompliance. And here's what he told me.
Chapter 7: How are Maine universities changing their transgender policies?
The letter stipulated that if there is no voluntary compliance on the part of Maine, it's going to be referred to the Justice Department for prosecution, which could mean that you see indictments come out for the commissioner of education in Maine, Pender Macon, maybe the governor, the head of the Maine Principals Association. I don't know.
Pam Bondi was pretty aggressive in New York when the state was giving away driver's licenses to non-citizens. So the ramifications for the people of Maine, I don't think have been totally contemplated by the people who are making these decisions. I think there's a lot of ego and stubbornness here.
They're not used to being told that they're wrong or that they don't have the authority to do something. So this is an unusual situation for them to be in.
Now, we know the majority of Americans disapprove of having boys and girls sports, but Maine is a more liberal state. Do we know how they feel there?
Yeah, we do. New polling from the American Parents Coalition, which was exclusively shared with The Daily Wire, shows that Maine residents side with Trump on this issue. 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 60% said that they would support a ballot measure to protect girls' sports, including 64% of independents.
Here's what Robinson told me about what he's personally seeing in Maine.
Well, I would say all the activism has been in favor of Representative Laura Libby, in favor of Trump, in favor of keeping boys out of girls sports. I don't think you've seen any counter demonstrations. It really seems like the national attitude of basically 80-20, 90-10 is reflected here in Maine, even if Maine is a blue state.
Robinson mentioned state representative Laurel Libby there. She was actually censured by state Democrats for her Facebook post that drew attention to this issue. She posted public images of a male taking first place in girls' pole vaulting at states after he formerly competed with boys.
Now, despite Maine residents being clearly opposed to allowing males in girls' sports, Maine Democrats just voted on Tuesday to continue Libby's censure. That means she's still barred from speaking on the House floor. And just last week, Maine Democrats pushed a bill that would effectively install tampons in middle and high school boys' bathrooms.
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