It's the email heard around the world: Elon Musk asked federal workers to make five bullet points about what work they've done, and the federal employee caste lost its mind with outrage. So, how much work do you think they're really doing? Charlie reacts, then turns to the appointment of Dan Bongino as the next deputy director of the FBI, and asks Sen. Rick Scott about the achievements of DOGE in its first month. Watch ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What prompted Elon Musk's email to federal workers?
There are a lot of stories that are bubbling up, and we are going to be covering them here exclusively on the program. The first of which is an email. An email heard around the world. A singular email that was sent last week. And the email was to ask every federal worker, so what do you do here and what have you gotten done? Email was sent and it says, quote, please reply.
This is sent to every federal worker. Please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. Deadline to reply is Monday at 1159 Eastern Standard Time.
As soon as this email was sent, federal workers started to scream and say, what do you mean I have to tell you what I do? This is harassment. This is taunting. This is unfair. No one has ever asked a federal worker, what do you do? Now, we do this every single week at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action. What do you do here? Tell us your progress report.
In fact, taking a page out of Elon, we're going to do this now every single week methodically. List the five things you got done. Federal workers are now clamoring, saying that this violates union rules. I'm sorry, guys. This is beyond laughable. This is repulsive. These people have jobs that we pay for, and they can't respond to an e-mail Asking them, just list five things you got done here.
Chapter 2: Why are federal workers resistant to accountability?
And the answer, of course, is they don't do anything of value. They show up, get a cup of coffee, reshuffle some papers, go into a conference room, and they're out the door by 3.30 or 4 o'clock. They operate as, not them personally, but they operate as worthless parasites on the American taxpayer. Meanwhile, every single one of you in the audience here,
whether you are a doctor or a lawyer, an engineer. In the private sector, every day you have to justify your existence. Every day, even if you work at McDonald's, even if you work as a garbage man, name five things that you did at McDonald's.
Well, today I cleaned the French fryer and I scrubbed the floors and I made Big Macs and I made sure the Diet Coke machine was working and I helped the customer to their car because she was struggling in the snow. Five things. Great. Thank you very much, McDonald's Employee of the Month. Earning $12 an hour. Someone at McDonald's tells you concretely what they do.
But if you dare to ask our millions of federal workers, hey, just tell us five bullet points of what you did. They are mass refusing this inquiry. It is intimidating, they say. It's scary. They're not used to have anybody come in and ask them a question. In fact, what a chance to brag. Put out your chest. Oh, yeah, Elon, these are the five things that I do at the Department of Interior.
These are the five things I do at Health and Human Services. This could be done in two minutes. These are the five things I did. One, two, three, four, five. Can these people not do bullets? Can these people read? I'm getting to some very provocative answers. They are mass deciding not to respond to this inquiry. if your work is all classified, just say so. And chances are it's not.
Chances are you're not doing anything that you can even report on. You simply exist. You are a leech on us. And this is the core of what Elon is surfacing, what President Trump is flushing out. It's not even that they themselves are worthy of the criticism, which they are. A lot of these people are less than desirable. They could not hold a job at your local Chipotle.
In fact, your local Uber Eats driver, your local Chipotle worker, they're working their tail off every day, and God bless them. But the federal work, those are plushy jobs where nothing is done. These jobs never should have existed in the first place.
And both Republicans and Democrats, George W. Bush, alongside Bill Clinton, alongside Barack Hussein Obama, alongside Joe Biden, have been protectorates of this bipartisan regime that we talk about a lot, the Uniparty. where there are millions of jobs that should not exist.
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Chapter 3: How does government inefficiency impact taxpayers?
There are famously entire departments of the government just filled with people taking months on end to do what would take a day in a startup or any real company, the bottom line. It is so telling that asking a federal worker to take five minutes or two minutes to explain what exactly you do here has become such a controversy.
It proves that the culture in government is rotten and the media is going along with it. MSNBC right now has must to federal workers justify your job or else. Yes, that's the way things work in the real world, not the fantasy world of government, because the money is running out.
If there's only one takeaway from our time together today that I want you to internalize, it's that President Trump and Elon Musk and J.D. Vance and Pete Hegseth are challenging the DC orthodoxy that government is untouchable. Government works for us. They are not a holy realm of existence that we are not allowed to criticize, that we are not allowed to question.
Now, mind you, the left, they will criticize every conservative nonprofit. They'll investigate Turning Point USA. They'll find out how many ballot chases we have on the ground. They'll write ad nauseum about anything in right-wing world, but they will never criticize or lift a finger asking a question about the government. This is not the government's money. It is our money. This is your money.
We are a team together in this as you as taxpayers, and they have been fleecing us. over the last couple of decades. And let me just read the email again. Is this intimidating to you? Does this require a safe space? Does this make you have to run away?
And this goes to my operating thesis that I wrote in that book back there, The College Scam, which I said this is the college campusification, that's not a word, but I made it up, of the entire country. You are not allowed to ask a junior at Yale, what did you learn here? That's intimidation. You're not allowed to have an exit test when you leave Stanford. That could be threatening.
Safe spaces, speech codes, rooms with puppies and milk and cookies. If you hear something threatening, these people are now staffing your government. As we have always said, what happens on college campuses does not stay in college campuses. It ends up in corporate boardrooms, the halls of Congress, and metastasizes into your government.
This is the same mentality that I've been fighting for the last decade on college campuses that we are finally starting to see a shift. And again, this is the email. Please reply to this email with approximately five bullet points of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. For every single person out there,
That has had a private sector job. And there are millions of you listening and watching. You should be angered and incensed by this. That these people think that they are an untouchable holy class. They think they have been given the divine right of kings. That we serve at the pleasure of this oligarchy. That if you have a federal job, we can't ask a question. We can't dare question.
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Chapter 4: Why is there a call to reevaluate federal job necessity?
your existence. We are just lucky that you'll mention us as an example. And I could tell you as somebody who has employed, employs well over a thousand people. If America Fest was organized by the federal government, it would take four years to plan it out. It would cost five times as much. And there would be like a single podium with five speakers. The federal government
is not just slow and bloat inefficient. It's largely become 80% unnecessary. Of course, there's core function of the federal government that should exist. 80% of these jobs should not exist. 90% should not exist. And they're proving our point. They can't even respond to a crisp email. This is what I do. This is why I exist. Your local janitor at a school could tell you what they do all day long.
the person that serves you your Starbucks coffee or serves you your Dunkin' Donuts can tell you to do it all day long, but no. The HR manager at Department of Commerce, it's against union rules. And the difference is this. When you go to Dunkin' Donuts, that's a voluntary exchange. You are deciding to spend your money at Dunkin' Donuts. No one did that in a mandatory way.
But you must pay your taxes or you go to jail. But you can't ask the workers that take your taxes at gunpoint, what do you do all day long?
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And they conflate voluntary action versus compulsory action or mandatory action. If you in the audience right now do not pay your taxes... They'll eventually find you, most likely, and put you in jail. It is mandatory for you to pay your taxes. I pay a lot in taxes, and I'm sure you pay a lot in taxes, an unnecessary amount in taxes. So we pay a lot in taxes, and we send it to Washington, D.C.
It is not us doing a voluntary contribution. Now contrast that for a second with when you go to Home Depot. Or when you decide to take your family out to a meal at Chili's. There was competition. There was choice. There was variety. And they have to earn your money. Customer service. That's why you're constantly singing, you can get a burger for $5 at Chili's. You can buy one, get one free.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of forced unionization in federal jobs?
And what have you gotten done? And the demons are shrieking within the government because you can't even ask the question. And let me reiterate the point. They are only able to exist through force. Your local company, whether it be Apple.
or whether it be a local restaurant, Italian restaurant or Lebanese restaurant that you care about, an auto repair clinic, whatever it might be, they are there because they earned it. They are not there through force. They're there through voluntary exchange. You cannot have a functioning organization if you cannot terminate the defiant, the lazy, or the unproductive.
Write that down and commit it to memory. You cannot have a flourishing organization if you cannot fire the lazy, the bloated, the defiant, or the unproductive. And the federal government is there through force, and we have no choice. Okay, since you're there because you extracted the money through us at gunpoint, shouldn't we then be able to, I don't know, wonder where our money is going?
Remember, our money. And by the way, if Apple or if Chipotle or Five Guys is wasting our money, then stop going there because the product will decline. But it's done through voluntary exchange. The federal government is different because it's we the people. We are shareholders in this project. We are citizens. We are co-owners, at least we're supposed to be.
And that is the central question revolving all of this. Are we the people, customers? Are we shareholders or are we subjects? Who works for who? They work for us. And soon they're going to tell us what they do all day long or else face instant termination. Private student loan debt in the U.S. totals about $300 billion.
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Chapter 6: How do market forces differ between the private sector and government?
It's very good. Better than Washington, D.C. and much better than my hometown of Chicago right now. So, Senator, I want to ask you a really hard question out of the gate here. I need five bullet points of what you did last week. The floor is yours.
Okay, here we go. Charlie, I was ready for this because I'm a business guy, so I expected this. I do a weekly newsletter to all my constituents every week. 12,000 phone calls to my 10 offices. We passed a reconciliation bill Thursday night. We got Kash Patel confirmed. We got Howard Lutton confirmed. And I filed a merit-based hiring bill, which means that we'll stop this stuff that you
You know that, you know, federal workers are like different than everybody else that you can't fire people for not doing their job. So is that enough? I can give you a bunch more if you want.
Keep going. I want to keep hearing it. So.
So, you know, Charlie, this is so simplistic. What Elon Musk is asking for is exactly what should be done. There should be complete accountability by every federal worker, right? And guess what? I was governor of Florida for eight years, and that's exactly what I ask everybody to do. Tell me what you're going to get done this week, because we have an obligation. There are no non-essential workers.
There was none in my business life. There's not going to be in state government. There shouldn't be in the federal government.
And let's just kind of dwell on this for a second, that market principles when you built a business are that if you're unproductive or if you're defiant or if you are lazy or if you are not a good fit, you will be terminated. The government has always operated as its own thing.
Talk about how what you did also as governor of Florida to bring in those market principles and why Florida is probably the best run state in the country. But how did we get to a point in the federal government where we act as if federal workers are an untouchable holy class?
It doesn't it doesn't make any sense. Like you, Charlie, you have the right to pick which restaurant you go to. So if if you have a bad waiter, if you have bad food, you don't go back. Right. So you are deciding not to continue those people from having a job. You do it every day. We do it every day based on what services we'll buy, what products we buy, all that stuff.
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Chapter 7: What is the role of compulsory taxation in government operations?
We want, my office, one for the best constituent services team in the country last year of all House members and Senate members. The reason we did is we have a measurement system for success. What are the people looking for? That's what we do.
And no one has thought to do this. I mean, obviously, Biden wouldn't. But for the last 20 or 30 years, and we finally have this mandate given by the American people. We also need we need serious deficit and debt reduction reform. I know this is something they're very passionate about.
But if we are not serious about analyzing key expenditures, we're going to become routinely in trillion dollar deficits. It's a make or break moment. Speak to this to our audience, Senator, of the high stakes of the fiscal apocalypse that is looming if we do not start cutting spending.
Well, if you think about it, with $36 trillion of debt, now we're at $36.5 trillion of debt. We're growing about every, you know, it'll be $2 trillion this year in increase. So inflation will not come down, all right? And interest rates will not come down. I mean, inflation and interest rates are completely tied to wasteful government spending, all right? So we don't have a choice.
I became governor of Florida, and we had not lived within our means for 20 straight years. We had added a billion dollars of excess debt every year for 20 straight years. We're about to go into fault on our debt. Eventually, people are not going to buy our debt. They're going to say, I don't know that you can pay all that money back. But the worst thing is for poor families.
I grew up in a poor family. A lot of Americans did. My mom would have had a hard time with the inflation we've had under Biden and where interest rates are now.
And government spending is the primary driver of that. I know you told producer Andrew in the break that the next two weeks are going to be very interesting. Please outline the next two weeks for us, Senator.
So here we got two big things, right? We want to get a reconciliation bill done that does these things, right? We want to secure the border. We want to build up our military. We want to extend the Trump tax cuts. And there's a variety of other things. We want to reduce wasteful spending. Those are the things we want to get done.
So there's different approaches, whether you have one bill or two bills or three bills. I'm okay with whatever number we have as long as we get those things done. So that we're working on. We passed ours out of the Senate last Thursday. The House will try to pass theirs this week. But then on top of that, on March 14th, if we don't come to an agreement, government gets shut down.
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Chapter 8: How does federal worker accountability affect public perception?
It's not just that we have President Donald Trump, but we have Pete Hegseth, we have Marco Rubio, we have Scott Besson, we have Bobby Kennedy, we have Tulsi Gabbard, not just Kash Patel, but now Dan Bongino. TikTok for all of the deceitful parasitic criminals that have been infecting our law enforcement agents, the Department of Justice, the FBI. We got Pam Bondi. We got Kash Patel.
We got Dan Bongino. We got eyes scanning. the horizon for any activity.
Dan Bongino being number two at the FBI will ensure that President Trump does not have to go through a Russiagate 2.0, will ensure that Peter Struckstroke Smirk and his like and his little minions are not going to infiltrate the government to be weaponized against the people and against the administration that was popularly elected.
This is a man devoted to America, and I can't speak high enough about his integrity, his character, his honesty. He's been a wonderful friend to me. You know, Dan Bongino, every time he speaks at Turning Point USA, does not charge us a cent. You know, some of these prima donalds, they'll charge you hundreds of thousands of dollars. You've got to negotiate down. Like, no, no, no.
Like, let's not do that. He will never charge us a dollar to speak at our events. That's who he is. And he has spoke at tons of our events and he's always been there for me and always been there for our country. I could not be more happy for not just for Dan Bongino, but for our country. And watch out, D.C. It's going to get a little uncomfortable. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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