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Who Knew Americans Are Funding 2,600 Federal Programs?! Time To Have One Leg Up on Government Funding, Again! · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Here's what I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you right off the bat if you've been hearing about
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  Speaker 1: the federal funding freeze that the Trump administration just put
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  Speaker 1: in place yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: According to NBC News and other outlets.
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  Speaker 1: The memo sent out by OMB last night. So Social Security, Medicare,
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  Speaker 1: and direct payments to individuals will not be included in
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  Speaker 1: the freeze. And I know we're getting there for many
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  Speaker 1: who rely on those Social Security payments, those Medicare payments,
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  Speaker 1: and Medicaid payments, their payments will not be frozen. And
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  Speaker 1: why do I start out with that? Because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like when someone reads that federal funding has been frozen,
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  Speaker 1: that's the first instinct.
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  Speaker 2: Will I get my monthly check to keep going? Well,
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  Speaker 2: here's what the ultimate goal is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what for agency for news agencies to
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  Speaker 1: write about this as if it's some obscene thing. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know why twenty six hundred programs are being
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  Speaker 1: funded by our federal government. I want to know why
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  Speaker 1: twenty six hundred programs have to be footing the bill.
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  Speaker 1: They you know, have to have us footing the bill
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  Speaker 1: as taxpayers. Shouldn't some of this go to the states.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty six hundred programs that the OLNB is simply saying,
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  Speaker 1: we have to evaluate.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's agenda or not.
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  Speaker 1: I applaud the evaluation of these twenty six hundred programs.
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  Speaker 2: To have one leg up for America.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we do give some of these program fundings back
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  Speaker 1: to the state. Look at what they're saying has to
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  Speaker 1: be scrutinized, more MINE inspections, USAID, foreign assistants.
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  Speaker 2: My goodness, how much.
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  Speaker 1: Money are we doling out to all these other countries
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  Speaker 1: except for our own, Except for our own federal agencies
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  Speaker 1: up till February seventh to submit information, including whether or
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  Speaker 1: not there's DEI involved with these agencies, whether these programs
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  Speaker 1: promote gender ideology, and all that. I don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying why the abortion has anything to do with it,
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  Speaker 1: but that's in this memo as.
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  Speaker 2: Well and spreadsheet. But for the federal government to be.
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  Speaker 1: Funding twenty six hundred programs, that's our tax dollars. Where
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  Speaker 1: I'm most concerned about this is that it's also affecting
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  Speaker 1: grant writing grants dispersed by the federal government, according to
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  Speaker 1: this internal memo that according to the Washington Post, and
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  Speaker 1: I do believe a lot of these grants are good
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  Speaker 1: for organizations to be able to adapt, especially when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to accessibility. So President Trump, if you don't mind,
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  Speaker 1: don't touch the grant writing and the grants. Just touch
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  Speaker 1: the twenty six hundred programs that we are funding as
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  Speaker 1: fed as a country.
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  Speaker 2: It is no wonder why.
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  Speaker 1: This memo went out last night, just a week after inauguration,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, because he's asking, and the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: is asking, hey, what is this funding of twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Six hundred program really going to?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a true government waste here that we need
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  Speaker 1: to evaluate and c the nbcing here's another outlets are
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  Speaker 1: writing this as some oh my god, look at this.
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  Speaker 1: We could be evicted, We could be this, We could
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  Speaker 1: be that local housing and organizations unsure if they would
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  Speaker 1: have the funding available to help pay rents to February first.
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  Speaker 1: According to the National Alliance and Homelessness, I don't see
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  Speaker 1: this lasting a while, but come on, twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Six hundred programs.
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  Speaker 1: Need scrutiny, especially as the deck clock continues to grow.
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  Speaker 1: Yet we're funding and our and our tax dollars continue
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  Speaker 1: to go to these programs, which you know, we're so
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  Speaker 1: busy every day, we don't even know what they go to.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm hoping the O and B can figure this out,
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  Speaker 1: d or unfreeze federal funding for the necessary programs and
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  Speaker 1: guess what, guess what, take away the funding from those
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  Speaker 1: that we may not be benefiting as Americans. The magic
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  Speaker 1: number here is twenty six hundred programs. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tax dollars going to things that we don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what we're paying into. And on this podcast, one
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  Speaker 1: leg Up, we are going to have one leg up
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  Speaker 1: on accountability and we'll advocate for that, which is why
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  Speaker 1: I'm also asking the administration, Hey, don't touch the grants,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, don't touch all programs that should be
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  Speaker 1: necessary for women that are pregnant in infants, maybe for
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  Speaker 1: not maybe definitely for the Medicare and the Medicaid and
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  Speaker 1: Social Security assistance. Don't touch that, but do go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and if any way, how much money we're giving to
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  Speaker 1: all these other countries, how much we're even giving to
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  Speaker 1: support those who are here illegally and maybe even on
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  Speaker 1: the government dime committing violent crimes illegally, I'd like an
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  Speaker 1: evaluation on that.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to know where.
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  Speaker 1: This information leads to. About twenty six hundred programs being funded.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that too much to you? Twenty six hundred programs.
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  Speaker 1: That's got to change, and I think the term administration
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  Speaker 1: will change that.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't I don't have a problem with them.
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  Speaker 1: Evaluating all twenty six hundred programs would a fine tooth
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  Speaker 1: comb because we've got to know exactly what our tax
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  Speaker 1: dollars are being used for, don't we as a country?
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  Speaker 1: And then here's the other big thing that when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to our money with real quick he wants to
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  Speaker 1: abolish the income taxes, which could be hit or miss
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  Speaker 1: and maybe for a short while we'll see a jump
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  Speaker 1: in income for all Americans. But I really got to
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  Speaker 1: get someone on that, because, well, salary without income tax
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  Speaker 1: truly benefit the American or will it put the squeeze
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  Speaker 1: on the employer?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want to figure out.
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  Speaker 1: But while he's going through twenty six hundred programs, while
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  Speaker 1: he's establishing the External Revenue Service and saying we should
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  Speaker 1: eliminate income tax, it sounds like he's trying to make
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  Speaker 1: America more financially sound and getting rid of government waste.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we voted him in for NBC News.
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  Speaker 1: We as a country because a lot of people saw
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  Speaker 1: how much wasteful we've been, and now there's an eye
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  Speaker 1: on it for twenty six hundred programs.
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  Speaker 2: And I'd love to see what comes next out of this.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, while everybody's crying about these federal freies, is that
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  Speaker 1: you know, could be doomsday feeling right here today for
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  Speaker 1: many organizations that I'm sure we'll get their funding back.
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  Speaker 1: A real big win has happened in New York today
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  Speaker 1: as Christy Nome and other Homeland insert and Security investigators
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  Speaker 1: grabbed a trend Deragua ring leader here in New York
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  Speaker 1: City based on a kidnapping warnering from Aurora, Colorado. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: Trenta or trent they are argua Is in New York
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  Speaker 1: and Christy Noman is here to fight that and say no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you're coming with us. And if you don't support that,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't support these visions these gang members being deported,
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  Speaker 1: then I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know what to tell you, but this is where
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  Speaker 2: they're going after.
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  Speaker 1: The vicious illegals, the gang members who have caused so
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  Speaker 1: much harm in America, have killed innocent Americans. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: can cry about the federal freeze, which I'm sure won't
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  Speaker 1: last long, or you can applaud what.
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  Speaker 2: These raids are doing to get rid of the violence
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  Speaker 2: in America.
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  Speaker 1: And I know New Yorkers, even though they voted for Kamala,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of them saw this migrant crisis
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  Speaker 1: has said nope, nope, we can't stand this anymore. And
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  Speaker 1: New York City residents should be applauding.
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  Speaker 2: That this.
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  Speaker 1: Infamous trend are Ragua ringleader was caught detained, and may
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  Speaker 1: they get so many more that have filtered in through
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  Speaker 1: our city that aren't so innocent and helpless, but really
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  Speaker 1: are vicious.
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  Speaker 2: When you get the.
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  Speaker 1: Viciousness out, and we need to get the viciousness out
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  Speaker 1: of our federal spending twenty six hundred programs, that's an
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  Speaker 1: infiltration too when you think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So let's think smart.
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  Speaker 1: Let's think about how we're gonna have one leg up
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  Speaker 1: for America, and let's scrutinize one needs to be scrutinized
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  Speaker 1: and get rid of not only the waste, but the
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  Speaker 1: violence in one foul swoop. That's how we have one
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  Speaker 1: leg up for America. Here on the Alex Garrett One
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