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Chapter 1: What are President Trump's achievements in his first month?
President Trump's first 30 days in office are marked by the most sweeping actions of any president in modern history.
These executive orders have ended burdensome regulations, sealed the border, eliminated divisive DEI from our federal government, stopped the weaponization of government, cut waste, fraud, and abuse, reinstituted America First trade and foreign policies, and ultimately restored common sense.
I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, February 21st, and this is Morning One. The Doge whiplash continues for Washington bureaucrats as the new department sets its sights on Social Security.
Chapter 2: How is the Social Security Administration being reformed?
They're finding levels of fraud and waste and abuse like I think nobody ever thought possible.
Chapter 3: What is the home insurance crisis in California?
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Chapter 5: What executive orders has Trump signed regarding immigration?
After one month back in office, Donald Trump continues to sign executive orders, confirm cabinet members, and rewrite public policy at a frenetic pace.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to recap the action and preview what's coming next. So Cabot, Donald Trump promised to hit the ground running and he's done that in this first 30 days.
Yeah, it's hard to overstate the pace at which he has reshaped the federal government. It's just been unmatched by any of its predecessors in modern history. And no one on either side is really disputing that.
In his first 30 days, Trump reversed Biden-era immigration policy, reset foreign relationships with adversaries and allies, and signed more executive orders than any president in the last century signed in their first 100 days. And he also saw his cabinet confirmed at a near record pace. Yesterday, Kash Patel was confirmed as head of the FBI.
That gives Trump 19 cabinet confirmations in just 31 days. That's the fastest pace since W's first term in 01. Several top Trump surrogates touted the administration's achievements at a press briefing Thursday. Here's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz praising his Ukraine negotiations.
I find it frankly ridiculous. So many people in Washington that were just demanding, pounding the table for a ceasefire in Gaza are suddenly aghast that the president would demand one and both sides come to the table when it comes to Ukraine, a war that has been arguably far greater in scope and scale and far more dangerous in terms of global escalation.
And here's White House advisor Stephen Miller's defense of Trump's approach to government. It got a lot of play yesterday. Have a listen.
Americans vote for radical FBI reform, and FBI agents say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote for radical reform in our energy policies, but EPA bureaucrats say they don't want to change. Or Americans vote to end DEI, racist DEI policies, and lawyers in the Department of Justice say they don't want to change.
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Chapter 6: How is Trump tackling illegal immigration and welfare?
What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders which are the will of the whole American people.
And Americans seem optimistic about Trump's early moves. Rasmussen polling found that 47% of the country feels America is on the right track. Now, that might not sound great, but that is a 19% increase from September and the highest number for that question in the last 20 years.
Now, based on polling, what issues are getting those high marks with voters?
Well, it's still undoubtedly immigration. According to the latest numbers, the number of illegal immigrants detained at ports of entry declined by 93 percent during Trump's first 10 days in office, while the number of detentions along the southwest border as a whole fell by 85 percent. Zooming out, just 29,000 migrants were detained at the border.
That is the lowest mark for a month since May of 2020. And keep in mind, Trump was only in office for a third of January, so February's decline is likely to be even more drastic.
And now the president is signing some new orders addressing the border, cutting funding for illegal immigrants, correct?
Yeah, this week Trump signed a measure that will restrict any federal dollars from going towards benefits for those living in the country illegally. Under the order, all federal agencies and departments will undergo an internal investigation to ensure, quote, "...taxpayer resources are used to protect the interests of American citizens, not illegal aliens."
Now, under federal law, illegal immigrants are technically already banned from receiving, quote, public resources to meet their needs. But the White House says in their order that previous presidents, most notably Joe Biden, blatantly violated those laws. Trump added that taxpayer benefits should only be extended to taxpayers, specifically American citizens.
And the existing structure served as a, quote, magnet for illegal aliens. Here's VP Vance speaking about the order at CPAC on Thursday.
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Chapter 7: What new strategy is being used against Latin American cartels?
Why are we taking the people's Social Security payments and giving it to illegal aliens? We know that's happening in the United States of America today. We've got to stop it. If you get control of the border, you do more to control the fiscal problem, the financial problems that we have in this country than almost anything.
Well, and he's also taken on the cartels. So what's the new strategy there?
Right. On Thursday, Trump officially ordered the State Department to designate eight Latin American gangs and cartels as terror organizations. That list includes Trend de Aragua in Venezuela, MS-13 in El Salvador, and the infamous Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.
According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, quote, there is sufficient factual basis to prove these criminal organizations qualify as terror groups under U.S. law. Remember, these groups have played an integral role in smuggling fentanyl and people across the border over the last decade. That new designation will allow the U.S. to impose sanctions on anyone connected with the groups.
That includes banks, businesses, and politicians. It'll also open the door for the U.S. military to target these groups directly, though it's unclear if Trump has plans to do so.
Well, that would be a drastic step, but hopefully this crackdown works. Cabot, thanks for reporting.
Anytime.
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Hey, John. So for years, Dudek had been a mid-level manager at Social Security running its anti-fraud efforts. Now at 4.30 p.m. one day this week, he was called into his manager's office and placed on leave. He wrote in a now-deleted LinkedIn post, They want to fire me for cooperating with Doge. I confess, I helped Doge understand SSA.
I've mailed myself publicly accessible documents and explained them to Doge. I confess, I moved contractor money around to add data science resources to my anti-fraud team. But within hours, it wasn't Dudek who was fired. Instead, the head of the entire agency, Michelle King, was out. And Dudek got a big promotion to her job. Quite a reversal there.
And Doge's Elon Musk actually shared your story on X. I wanted to read what he wrote. He said, quote, There are good people in the government who want to eliminate fraud and waste, promote good players, exit bad players. That's the right thing to do.
What's your response to that? I think that's a really important point. Doge is going to need some of these career employees if they're going to be successful. They are out there, people who want to do the right thing and work for the federal government, and they're actually the ones who know where the bodies are buried. Right.
Now, Dudek's replacing, for now, Michelle King. What do we know about her, about King?
Well, traditionally, the Social Security Commissioner was appointed to a six-year term and retained by the next president. But Joe Biden shattered that precedent when he fired Trump's first-term pick. Biden replaced him with Martin O'Malley, who quit late last year to run for chair of the Democratic National Committee. That left King a career employee as acting commissioner.
Now, King reportedly tried to block Doge from accessing the agency's data. Now Dudek will leap up the ranks to be acting commissioner until the Senate confirms Trump's nominee.
Social Security has been a big focus for Doge lately, which makes sense because it's got a lot of data, handles a lot of money. We touched on this earlier this week, but there have been some developments there with Social Security. What has this team found so far?
Well, Musk said this week that there are millions of people in Social Security's system that are well over 100 years old, but aren't marked as dead. Now, a lot of people on the left attacked him for that. Some claimed that Musk just didn't understand the way that dates are stored in the COBOL programming language.
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