The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2127 - Trump Takes A WRECKING BALL To The Federal Government!
Wed, 29 Jan 2025
Trump announces a pause on federal spending that doesn’t align with presidential priorities – and panic breaks out; the White House offers a buyout to federal employees who don’t want to enforce the Trump agenda; and a new star is born as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt makes her debut. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE Ep.2127 - - - DailyWire+: Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today. "Identity Crisis" tells the stories the mainstream media won’t. Stream the full film now, only on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3C61qVU Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today's Sponsors: ExpressVPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/ben and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! PureTalk - Switch to PureTalk and start saving today! Visit https://PureTalk.com/SHAPIRO Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/ben for an exclusive discount + 2 free Dream Pillows with any mattress purchase. Good Ranchers - Visit https://goodranchers.com and subscribe to any box using code BEN to claim $25 off, free express shipping, and your choice of free ground beef, chicken, or salmon in every order for an entire year. - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB
Chapter 1: What is Trump’s recent spending proposal?
well president trump is keeping his promises he's moving fast and he is breaking things in historic amazing amazing ways so yesterday the president of the united states via his office of management and budget put forward a proposal that would temporarily pause three trillion dollars in spending from the federal government now That temporary pause is in fact only temporary.
Much of that spending will go forward. But the idea here is to review all of the spending the federal government is doing in a non-mandatory basis. So there's a lot of mandatory spending in the federal budget. That includes Medicare, Social Security, many aspects of Medicaid, right? All of those things are going to continue So are various payments to law enforcement bodies, to defense.
All that stuff is going to continue. What this is meant to do is allow a pause for the various branches of the federal government, which are under the control of President Trump, to actually look at the spending and ensure that they are spending in accordance with the president's wishes and with the wishes of Congress. So there's a big freakout that's happening today. We'll go through it.
By the left, by the media, claiming that President Trump is doing something deeply unconstitutional, fascistic. Here's the thing. You do not get to expand the centralized power of the executive branch for full on a century, controlling every aspect of Americans' lives, spending $7 trillion.
And then when your political opponents take over and they use that power in order to cut back the amount of power the executive branch will actually be exerting in Americans' lives, you don't actually get to then claim that he is a dictator. You don't get to do that. You break it. You bought it. You built this thing.
And then you can't be shocked when the person who takes over decides he's going to use the instruments that you created in order to actually downgrade the amount of impact that those instruments have on Americans' everyday lives. So yesterday.
The executive office of the president, the Office of Management and Budget, led by Matthew Vaith, who's the acting director for the moment, put out a memo saying, quote, the American people elected Donald J. Trump to be president of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar.
In fiscal year 2024, of the nearly $10 trillion the federal government spent, more than $3 trillion was federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the executive branch have a duty to align federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through presidential priorities.
Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness and weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and making America healthy again.
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Chapter 2: How is the media reacting to Trump's spending freeze?
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I talked a little bit about this yesterday. Malicious compliance is where you, opposing the president's agenda, pick a bad example of where the president's agenda should not apply and you apply it there.
So, for example, in the Department of Defense, if there is an executive action that goes out banning DEI in the Department of Defense, some low level staffer will, quote unquote, maliciously comply by saying that now nobody can teach about the Tuskegee Airmen. And it turns out that that's not what Trump meant at all.
And Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth immediately rescinds that particular stupid application. of the executive order. A malicious compliance has become a way for so-called deep staters, meaning career employees in the executive branch who don't like President Trump or his agenda, to try to thwart that agenda with bad headlines.
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