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Monday Mini: Executive Orders · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Steff
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  Speaker 1: I Never told you, production by Hurt Radio.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to another edition of Monday Many.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, as the world is ever evolving and changing,
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  Speaker 3: we want to try to be as informative as possible
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  Speaker 3: helping to dismantle some of the misinformation and disinformation. So
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  Speaker 3: we thought we would take a closer look, I guess
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  Speaker 3: a brief look, not a closer look, but a brief
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  Speaker 3: look at the different executive orders being thrown out there
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  Speaker 3: like spaghetti on the wall, to see what's sicks right
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  Speaker 3: and what organizations are doing to fight it. So we
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about both of those processes because we've
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  Speaker 3: heard a lot of the bad. We're not hearing who
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  Speaker 3: is fighting and doing what. And to be honest, we're
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  Speaker 3: not sure all the time who is doing what, but
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to keep it together. Yeah, and with that,
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  Speaker 3: I'm go ahead and tell you it is February seventh,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. And yeah, content warning, we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 3: about what is happening in politics and administration here in
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  Speaker 3: the US. And this is specific to the US, so
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  Speaker 3: sorry in advance, but these are.
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  Speaker 2: Things that we have to keep track of.
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  Speaker 3: I hope when we listen or look back onto this
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  Speaker 3: in the in the future days that we can laugh
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  Speaker 3: about it and say, oh, that was a weird time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad that we're not there now. That's that's
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  Speaker 3: what I want to hear. But you know what we'll
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  Speaker 3: see so as a quick refresher or maybe a first
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  Speaker 3: time knowledge for you, because honestly, I don't know much
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  Speaker 3: about executive orders because I did not care to know,
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  Speaker 3: and that's sat on me. But now it's very important
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  Speaker 3: that we know what are executive orders and how is
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  Speaker 3: it used. So here's some information from the ACLU. Article
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  Speaker 3: two of the Constitution vests the president with executive power
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  Speaker 3: over the government, including the obligation to quote take care
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  Speaker 3: that the laws be faithfully executed. An executive order is
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  Speaker 3: a written directive assigned by the president that orders the
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  Speaker 3: government to take specific actions to ensure quote the laws
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  Speaker 3: be faithfully executed. But with that these orders quote cannot
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  Speaker 3: override federal laws and statutes. So I'm saying quotes because
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  Speaker 3: this is from the actual article that they are are quoting.
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  Speaker 3: So this is all from the ACLU, but the quotes
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  Speaker 3: within it are about from the article in the Constitution
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  Speaker 3: just fy. They go into more detail about what the
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  Speaker 3: president can or cannot do. They say, with an executive order,
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  Speaker 3: president Trump can order the federal government to take any
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  Speaker 3: steps that are within the scope of the constitutional authority
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  Speaker 3: of the executive branch and do not violate any federal law.
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  Speaker 3: They go on, the president cannot use an executive order
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  Speaker 3: to size step those checks and balances. And the president
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  Speaker 3: can't or cannot just to emphasize take over powers from
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  Speaker 3: other branches, such as the power vested in Congress to
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  Speaker 3: pass new statues or in the course to invalidate certain
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  Speaker 3: laws as unconstitutional. So those are some things that we
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  Speaker 3: need to remember. And again, yes we are technically unattecks
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  Speaker 3: and balances, but if it's all sway to one side,
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  Speaker 3: it's a little scary anyway. So with that part out
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  Speaker 3: of the way, what are some of the orders that
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  Speaker 3: could be harmful. One of the first that Trumps signed
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  Speaker 3: was the order to rescind the Civil Rights Statute. More
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  Speaker 3: from that ACLU article, they write President Trump's order rescinding
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  Speaker 3: Johnson's Order concerning civil rights obligations of federal contractors, for example,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't overrule any statute that governs equal protection and employment.
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  Speaker 3: Even so, it undermines civil rights protections and sends the
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  Speaker 3: signal that federal contractors won't have the same obligations to
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  Speaker 3: protect their employees, and it communicates to the public that
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  Speaker 3: equal protection is not a priority. So in this conversation,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things can be underneath this, but one
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  Speaker 3: of the big things that you do need to understand
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  Speaker 3: is that they cannot just discriminate, even though it kind
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  Speaker 3: of sounds like they can, because we can still we
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  Speaker 3: as the people sue for discrimination. That is a thing
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  Speaker 3: that can happen and actually is happening. So keep that
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  Speaker 3: in mind. We can still fight it. But there are
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  Speaker 3: ways to counter these and there are those who are
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  Speaker 3: doing so, as I said, lawsuits. So from Nbcnews dot
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  Speaker 3: Com as of Tuesday, February fourth, so timing, I know,
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  Speaker 3: by the time this is published, things are changing, as
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  Speaker 3: in fact, there's conversations about the Department of Education and
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  Speaker 3: whether or not he's about to do in executive orders,
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  Speaker 3: which he is threatened all along, people are kind of
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  Speaker 3: preparing for that. We don't know yet as we are
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  Speaker 3: recording this. I'm sure that's going to change, probably by
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, yeah, dear God. But from
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  Speaker 3: the article from nbcnews dot com and they have actually
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  Speaker 3: an ongoing almost live updates of all of the executive
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  Speaker 3: orders if you want to go check it out. But
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  Speaker 3: as of Tuesday, because I wrote this earlier February fourth,
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  Speaker 3: Trump has signed over fifty executive orders, which is the
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  Speaker 3: most a presdent has signed within their first few weeks
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  Speaker 3: in office in the past forty years. So he turn
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  Speaker 3: loves to sign things, yep. Now, so here are some
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  Speaker 3: of them as we know it, and again there's over fifty,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm not going to tell you all of them.
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  Speaker 3: And some of these are under broader executive orders. So
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  Speaker 3: when he signed that whole DEI think is under the
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  Speaker 3: civil rights thing that.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about earlier.
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  Speaker 3: So for one of them is called the American First
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  Speaker 3: Policy Directive to the Secretary of State, which instructs the
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  Speaker 3: Secretary to bring the America First foreign policy, so meaning
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  Speaker 3: like some foreigners, is about US yep, as he's a
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  Speaker 3: simply put defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring
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  Speaker 3: biological truths to the federal government. It declares that the
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  Speaker 3: US policy recognizes two sexes, male and female. Directs federal
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  Speaker 3: agencies to use the term sex, not gender, and to
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  Speaker 3: ensure federal personnel records and government issued documents such as passports,
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  Speaker 3: quote accurately reflect the holder's sex. Directs agencies to ensure
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  Speaker 3: federal funds quote do not promote gender ideology, bars federal
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  Speaker 3: funds from being used for gender transition healthcare in prisons,
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  Speaker 3: and mandates quote privacy and intimate spaces to ensure that
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  Speaker 3: single sex spaces are designated by sex and not gender identity.
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  Speaker 3: A federal judge has issued a temporary straining order blocking
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  Speaker 3: the Bureau of from moving transgender prisoners or cutting off
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  Speaker 3: gender farming care while a lawsuit continues. So again there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of lawsuits happening that we're not hearing about,
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  Speaker 3: and you have to remember that because that's hope. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: moving on to another one, ending radical and wasteful government
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  Speaker 3: DEI programs and preferencing. You know what I hear people
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  Speaker 3: talk about this. It feels like the new like reverse
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  Speaker 3: racism argument.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's really gross.
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  Speaker 3: So this is supposed to end all diversity, equity, inclusion,
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  Speaker 3: and accessibility programs, and that accessibility part is really big
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  Speaker 3: that people are leaving off policies and may days across
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  Speaker 3: the federal government, revising union contracts and employment practices to
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  Speaker 3: end them as well. It also directs the government to
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  Speaker 3: terminate all positions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The
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  Speaker 3: big key to this is again that accessibility conversation, and
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  Speaker 3: then also the fact that the DEI includes veterans, older generations,
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  Speaker 3: all of those and most of the people again that
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  Speaker 3: who have actually advanced or had advantages based on these
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  Speaker 3: preferences or based on these programs white women. But hey,
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  Speaker 3: moving on an other words, ending the weaponization of the
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  Speaker 3: federal government calls on the Attorney General and other federal
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  Speaker 3: agency has to review all civil or criminal enforcement activities
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  Speaker 3: as well as intelligence actions taken during the last administration
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  Speaker 3: to see if any actions were taken solely to punish
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  Speaker 3: political opponents and requests recommendations for quote appropriate remedial actions
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  Speaker 3: were applicable.
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  Speaker 2: Weird, yep, I feel like the call is coming from
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  Speaker 2: inside the house. Yeah no, but you know that's what
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  Speaker 2: they do.
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  Speaker 3: Gas light, establishing and implementing the President's Department of Government efficiencies.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we already I know a lot of us
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  Speaker 3: have already heard of this, and I refuse to say
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  Speaker 3: the term the acronym. I will not say it. I
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  Speaker 3: will spell it out before I say it. It's kind
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  Speaker 3: of like calling that the other platform the new name
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  Speaker 3: instead of Twitter.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still calling it Twitter. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It renames the United States Digital Service the USDGE Service. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I said it, and creates guidelines for this new organization
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  Speaker 3: aimed at quote, modernizing federal technology and software to maximize
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  Speaker 3: government efficiency with an olive gar whatever, with a rich
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  Speaker 3: billionaire not from the US who's also trying to intervene
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  Speaker 3: in the UK.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Moving on initial recessions of harmful executive orders and actions,
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  Speaker 3: it repels, as they say, dozens of a Biden era
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  Speaker 3: executive order, including the task force aimed at reuniting migrant families,
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  Speaker 3: orders around COVID and racial gender equity and climate change,
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  Speaker 3: and certain protections for LGBTQ people, and asylum policies. The
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  Speaker 3: repealed orders include dozens issued by Biden in his final
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  Speaker 3: weeks in office, including orders reworking Department orders of succession,
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  Speaker 3: blocking certain oil and gas leases, and removing Cuba from
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  Speaker 3: the list of state sponsors of terror.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Another example is protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship.
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  Speaker 3: Tells government agencies not to issue documents recognizing citizenship to
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  Speaker 3: people born to two parents who do not have a lawful,
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  Speaker 3: permanent residence or citizenship in the United States. The order
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  Speaker 3: goes into effect thirty days after signing, but it has
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  Speaker 3: been temporarily blocked, just as the reminder, Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 3: about that Barthway citizenships, and we're going to talk a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, a little bit more about that. We have
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  Speaker 3: another one restoring names that honor American greatness, because this
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  Speaker 3: is important. Reverse the name of the Denali to Mount
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  Speaker 3: McKinley white people after the name was changed by then
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  Speaker 3: President Barack Obama in twenty fifteen, and renames the Gulf
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  Speaker 3: of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
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  Speaker 2: And federal references.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we have unleashing Alaska's extraordinary resource potential, calling
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  Speaker 3: to quote, maximize the development and production of natural resources
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  Speaker 3: in Alaska. This order speeds permitting and leasing for energy
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  Speaker 3: projects in the state, expedites the development of liquid natural
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  Speaker 3: gas production, and removes some regulations on the industry, among
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  Speaker 3: other things. We're good at the story of the world,
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  Speaker 3: moving on ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit based opportunities. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: same thing is diversity, equity and inclusion programs in federal agencies.
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  Speaker 3: Instructs the Attorney General and the Office of Management and
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  Speaker 3: Budget Director to submit a report within four months with
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  Speaker 3: recommendations on discouraging DEI programs in the private sector. The
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  Speaker 3: Attorney General and the Education Secretary also have four months
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  Speaker 3: to issue guidance to educational institutions about complying with Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court decisions that struck down affirmative action programs and college mission.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it seems to me most of the colleges
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  Speaker 3: have been really eager to let these go, So I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that's gonna be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: For most places. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Enforcing the High Amendment revokes two of Biden's executive orders
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  Speaker 3: on abortion access, which sought to ensure safety at clinics
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  Speaker 3: and pharmacies. Established an interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access,
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  Speaker 3: assist the states with legal protections for out of state patients,
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  Speaker 3: explored access to services through Medicaid, and call for improvement
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  Speaker 3: on research and data collect on reproductive health access.
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  Speaker 2: That's bad. All of this is bad.
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  Speaker 3: Ending radical in doctrination in K through twelve schooling instructs
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  Speaker 3: Cabinet has to develop a strategy within ninety days to
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  Speaker 3: eliminate federal funds from being used for quote discriminatory treatment
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  Speaker 3: and indoctrination of K through twelve schools, including based on
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  Speaker 3: gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology. Re establishes the seventeen
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  Speaker 3: seventy six commission with the Education Department focused on quote
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  Speaker 3: patriotic education. And of course there's tariffs that has kind
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  Speaker 3: of gone back and forth because it's protecting the southern border,
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  Speaker 3: protecting the northern borders what it says. But then like
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not sure how correct this is. Essentially he
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  Speaker 3: was like, I'm on creasy stars, and both the leaderships
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  Speaker 3: in Canada and Mexico like, bet we got let's play
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  Speaker 3: this game. And then them all like negotiating. But from
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  Speaker 3: what I understand, our administration didn't understand that what the
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  Speaker 3: other countries were negotiating was already in place and then
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  Speaker 3: planned ahead of time. And they just told him again,
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  Speaker 3: and he really thought he did something I could be wrong,
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  Speaker 3: like the you know, the soldiers being deployed to the
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  Speaker 3: Mexican border. She had already had done that apparently, as
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  Speaker 3: in fact, more than he had requested.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope she withdrew like at least the ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand more that she had planned on. Yeah, to stick
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  Speaker 2: with that number, lower number. So he's smart, so smart.
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  Speaker 3: So again, that's just a few of the mini orders
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  Speaker 3: that Trump has been busy at signing. Way, what happens now,
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  Speaker 3: so the ACLU explains again Trump or any president who
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  Speaker 3: is misusing executive orders authority. If the president orders the
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  Speaker 3: government to take actions that are not authorized by the
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  Speaker 3: Constitution or are in violation of federal laws, that's when
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  Speaker 3: the courts must step in to safeguard our rule of law. Courts,
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  Speaker 3: this is our only hope, not only hope, this is
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  Speaker 3: one of our biggest hopes, and it was that they
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  Speaker 3: will actually fight and understand the law. I will say, Biden,
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  Speaker 3: before he left office, made sure to confirm a hell
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  Speaker 3: of a lot of the federal judges that I know
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  Speaker 3: Trump is trying to fight against real hard don't know
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  Speaker 3: what's going.
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  Speaker 2: To happen with that. We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: And as we speak, there are several lawses already being filed,
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  Speaker 3: like we said, and more ahead as well as federal
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  Speaker 3: judges again blocking orders. So in Seattle, the federal judge
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  Speaker 3: has scheduled the birthright Citizenship executive Order, and it just happened.
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  Speaker 3: I believe there was a whole recording him talking about
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  Speaker 3: how he will follow the law no matter what the
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  Speaker 3: administration might tell him otherwise. So it was a really
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  Speaker 3: great speech if you can take the time to listen
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  Speaker 3: to it.
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  Speaker 2: And he was ready. He's ready.
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  Speaker 3: From ABC News, US District Judge John Cochenauer in Seattle
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  Speaker 3: has scheduled a hearing involving lawyers from the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: for states suing to stop the order, and an Immigration's
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  Speaker 3: Right organization which is challenging it on behalf of a
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  Speaker 3: proposed class of expected parents. A Maryland federal judge has
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  Speaker 3: already blocked a similar order days earlier. Again, this is
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  Speaker 3: not the most updated because I believe they just had
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  Speaker 3: a second hearing and it's still blocked.
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  Speaker 2: Good news.
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  Speaker 3: And from that same article, the president's executive order seeks
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  Speaker 3: to end the automatic grant of citizenship to children born
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  Speaker 3: on US soil to parents who are in the country
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  Speaker 3: illegally or who are here on a temporary but lawful basis,
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  Speaker 3: such as those on student or tourist visas. For now,
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  Speaker 3: though it's on hold two weeks ago. Kockenhauer called the
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  Speaker 3: order a quote blatantly unconstitutional and issued a fourteen day
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  Speaker 3: temporary restraining order blocking his implementation on Wednesday, And on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: a US District Judge, Deborah Boardman followed that up with
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  Speaker 3: an injunction keeping on hold long term until the merits
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  Speaker 3: of the case are resolved barring a successful appeal by
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  Speaker 3: Trump's administration. So that one we are on hold. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, there was twenty two other states who
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  Speaker 3: have sued to stop that executive order, so there's more
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  Speaker 3: people hopping on board. There's also lawsuits in order to
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  Speaker 3: block the DEI rollback as well. From Insight into diversity
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  Speaker 3: dot com, they write, university professors, diversity officers, and labor
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  Speaker 3: advocates have filed a federal lawsuits seeking to block President
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  Speaker 3: Trump's recent executive orders targeting DEI initiatives. The lawsuit, filed
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  Speaker 3: Monday in the US District Court for Maryland, argues that
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  Speaker 3: the orders are unconstitutional and exceed presidential authority, and then
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  Speaker 3: it goes on. The plaintiffs in the case include the
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  Speaker 3: American Association of University Professors, the National Association of Diversity
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  Speaker 3: Officers in Higher Education, restaurant Opportunities Centers United, and the
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  Speaker 3: Mayor and the City Council of Baltimore. The groups are
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  Speaker 3: represented by Democracy Forward, a nonprofit legal organization alongside Asian
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  Speaker 3: Americans Advancing Justice. So there's a lot a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people coming through with this one on board. And then
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  Speaker 3: currently the trans community have also come out with some
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  Speaker 3: lawsuits as well. We just had to believe yesterday was
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  Speaker 3: no new executive order for ban on trans athletes. So
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  Speaker 3: from another article and this one's written by Kiara Afonesco
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  Speaker 3: for abcnews dot Com. The lawsuit p Flag v. Trump
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  Speaker 3: was filed by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Unions,
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  Speaker 3: the ACLU of Maryland, and the law firms Hogan, Lowels
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  Speaker 3: and Genner and Block on behalf of p FLAG National GLMA,
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  Speaker 3: and two transgender young adults and five transgender adolescents.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a whole lot of lawsuits coming out.
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  Speaker 3: There's a bunch, there's a bunch coming, and there's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a bunch more, especially with that trans athlete ban.
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  Speaker 3: So the federal employees unions are suing as well from
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  Speaker 3: USA today, the largest union representing federal employees sued the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration Wednesday to block in an executive order that
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  Speaker 3: it alleges as aimed at politicizing the federal government by
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  Speaker 3: stripping federal workers of job protections. The lawsuit was filed
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  Speaker 3: in a DC federal court by the American Federation of
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  Speaker 3: Government Employees. The union is challenging a January twenty that
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  Speaker 3: Trump executive order that claims to increase accountability for policy
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  Speaker 3: influencing position within the federal workforce by removing certain hiring
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  Speaker 3: and firing restrictions.
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  Speaker 2: So that is also happening. I don't think there's anything
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  Speaker 2: that has gone forward. I haven't seen it. I can't
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot that's happening quickly. So if you have
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  Speaker 3: some clarification, if you're a federal employee and be like no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: this is what's happening, please let us know. There's also
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  Speaker 3: lawsuits regarding the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE from Yahoo News,
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  Speaker 3: Advocacy organizations and public interest groups quickly filed a handful
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  Speaker 3: of lawsuits in the US District Court for the District
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  Speaker 3: Columbia against DOGE. Three of four lawsuits files argued that
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  Speaker 3: DOGE violates the transparency requirements of the nineteen seventy two
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  Speaker 3: Federal Advisory Committee Act. DOGE, the lawsuit set, is not
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  Speaker 3: a federal department and should be considered a federal advisory
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  Speaker 3: committee subject to the FACULT law.
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  Speaker 2: The law, which was.
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  Speaker 3: Designated to boost public accountability, covers advisory committees that are
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  Speaker 3: either formed or utilized by the president.
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  Speaker 2: Which seems straightforward.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that seems like it should be an obvious.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, quote operating without complying with FACA. DOGE has already
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  Speaker 3: begun developing recommendations and influencing decision making in the new administration,
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  Speaker 3: even though its membership lacks the fair balance required by
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  Speaker 3: FACA and its meetings and records are not open to
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  Speaker 3: public inspection in real time.
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  Speaker 2: One of the lawsuits SAY.
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  Speaker 3: Filed by the groups of Public Citizen, State Democracy Defenders
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  Speaker 3: Fund and the American Federation of Government Employees reads and
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  Speaker 3: it continues. Another lawsuit, file BUS several groups, including the
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  Speaker 3: American Public Health Association and the Citizens for Responsibility and
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  Speaker 3: Ethics in Washington, contends that DOGE is a quote shadow
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  Speaker 3: operation led by unelected billionaires who stand to reap huge
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  Speaker 3: financial rewards from this influence and access.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I thought I should be an obvious Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But with all that we know that there's a lot
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: of misinformation coming from the administration, like saying.
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  Speaker 4: That there's been so much bribery from you said, and
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  Speaker 4: this is what we've been uncovered because they're paying people
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  Speaker 4: like Politico, and oh my god, Elon Musk has really
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  Speaker 4: really outdone himself in descovering these atrocious law breaking activities. Right.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of ugliness going on, but again,
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  Speaker 3: there are a lot of people coming back fighting. It's
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  Speaker 3: not as bleak as it seems. It does feel pretty bleak.
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  Speaker 3: There are also special elections happening in the next.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty to six days.
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  Speaker 3: If you're in those areas, please please please let us
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  Speaker 3: know what's going on. Let us know what we as
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  Speaker 3: people outside of those areas, can do to help you
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  Speaker 3: and your community, because we know this is about all
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  Speaker 3: of us. This is a lot on the line, a
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  Speaker 3: lot on the line. I believe Cobb County and Georgia
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  Speaker 3: is one of them. Actually, I don't know. They have
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  Speaker 3: a special election for something, and I don't know because
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  Speaker 3: I'm not near there. I should probably look into that,
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  Speaker 3: but if you have information, please let us know what's
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  Speaker 3: going on. Again, this is ever changing. We're not even
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: talked about the fact. I'll actually looked up to see
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: if any of losses have come against that hide enforcement,
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  Speaker 3: and I haven't seen anything. I could just miss it
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  Speaker 3: because I know there are so many great abortion access
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  Speaker 3: and abortion care organizations and nonprofits who have always been
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  Speaker 3: fighting and probably really really tired and push to fight.
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  Speaker 3: But I haven't seen anything. So if anybody wants to
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  Speaker 3: update us again, there's only a couple of us trying
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to look into everything really hard.
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