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Trump Bringing Back Plastic Straws and Pausing USAID will Help Americans Have One Leg Up · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, as Gabby and I are having our
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  Speaker 2: morning ice coffee, we're enjoying it with plastic straws. But
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  Speaker 2: you know why that's important, right, because paper straws could
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  Speaker 2: be a thing of the past. The disabled community will
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  Speaker 2: actually benefit from Donald Trump's presidency in this way. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about the rest of it. I think
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  Speaker 2: we'll be fine through it. But he is actually helping
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  Speaker 2: the disabled community by saying, hey, Biden, the paper straws
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  Speaker 2: can go. You know, screw themselves. We're coming back to
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  Speaker 2: plastic straws. And you know how vital it is for
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  Speaker 2: people with disabilities to have plastic straws. It's so vital,
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  Speaker 2: it's a must. Restaurants should be able to provide plastic
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  Speaker 2: straws and not be regulated by some bureaucrats who say, well,
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  Speaker 2: what the disabled community want to live, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be They may be environmentalists, but they also have
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  Speaker 2: to live and live comfortably. And these plastic straws give
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  Speaker 2: a form of comfort when enjoying their food. So I
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  Speaker 2: applaud President Trump on this initiative. He went on truth
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  Speaker 2: Truth social and said, in essence, we're bringing back plastic straws.
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  Speaker 2: And I immediately said, hey, disabled community, there's going to
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  Speaker 2: benefit you and us because how many years did I
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  Speaker 2: see people at Viscardi needing all these straws? And how
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  Speaker 2: many places do we go to on a daily that
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  Speaker 2: still don't always provide the plastic straws but need to.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to challenge President Trump on this. Can
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  Speaker 2: we go back to plastic bags? The plastic bag band
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  Speaker 2: never made sense from the inception, but it's time to
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  Speaker 2: go back to plastic bags. Says, if we can do
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  Speaker 2: with straws, we can do with bags. I mean, how
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  Speaker 2: many people people find that when they carry per you know,
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  Speaker 2: bags from Walgreens or wherever, and the brakes on them
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the street. How many people wish
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  Speaker 2: we had plastic bags back. I'll pay the fricking five
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  Speaker 2: cent tax I don't care, but I think they come
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  Speaker 2: in pairs. The straws and the bags should both be plastic.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're gonna make the plastic straws a thing
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  Speaker 2: again nationwide. Let's make plastic bags a thing as well.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, President Trump, my dad loved yet he'd
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  Speaker 2: be very proud of you for that. Because he loved
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  Speaker 2: his plastic bags, and it certainly would make it easier
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  Speaker 2: on me with my crutches to carry plastic instead of paper.
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  Speaker 2: But the big story of this week has been what's
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  Speaker 2: going on with the US AID. And I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: this a couple of weeks ago when I saw that
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  Speaker 2: they were going to freeze funding for USAID because we
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  Speaker 2: have been giving billions and billions to other countries and
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what they're used for. No one
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  Speaker 2: really knows. That's why the examination had to happen. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard this, but JFK started
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  Speaker 2: this back in nineteen sixty one. And as there's a
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  Speaker 2: pause on the firing of twenty two hundred USAID workers,
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  Speaker 2: that's right, twenty two hundred. I do want to play
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  Speaker 2: this because I think he makes a lot of sense
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  Speaker 2: here when he talked about why he created USAID. This
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  Speaker 2: from the JFK Library Foundation.
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  Speaker 1: The presence of the United States has a leading power
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  Speaker 1: in the free world. Is involved in your work directly.
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  Speaker 1: The people who are opposed to AID should realize that
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  Speaker 1: this is a very powerful source of strength for us.
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  Speaker 1: It permits us to exert influence or the maintenance of freedom.
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  Speaker 1: If we did not, we're not so heavily involved, our
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  Speaker 1: voice would not speak with such bigger and as we
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  Speaker 1: do not want to send American troops to a great
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  Speaker 1: many areas where freedom may be under attacked, we send
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  Speaker 1: you and you working with the people in those countries
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  Speaker 1: to try to work with them and developing the economic
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  Speaker 1: thrust of their country so that they can make a
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  Speaker 1: determination that they can solve their problems without resorting to
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  Speaker 1: totalitarian control and becoming part of the block.
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  Speaker 2: Now I agree with the idea of this. We shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: send our troops into war torn areas are already eating
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  Speaker 2: their own, if you will, But excuse me, I believe
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  Speaker 2: that the aid that we've given out is being given
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  Speaker 2: to corrupted governments that may not have been there back
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  Speaker 2: in the sixties, or if they were, they certainly worked
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  Speaker 2: easier with us, or however you want to say it.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I am for pausing the aid, figuring out
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  Speaker 2: exactly how our dollars are spent, and then going from there.
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  Speaker 2: It might seem radical to you, but as I keep saying,
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  Speaker 2: whether we're an athlete, were disabled, we're a pop star,
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  Speaker 2: we're in Hollywood, we all pay taxes. Most of us,
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  Speaker 2: most every man and woman in this country pay taxes,
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  Speaker 2: and we should know where this money's going. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking here pure research saying that this is
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  Speaker 2: back in twenty two days ago. In twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: USAID distributed three point eight billion dollars in aid, three
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  Speaker 2: of five foreign assistance dollars. But what if this aid
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  Speaker 2: again is in the wrong hands. And when you see
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  Speaker 2: that astronomical number, and then you look at the homeless
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  Speaker 2: here in New York and other places, and you wait
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  Speaker 2: in Washington, yes, right in Port Washington, then you have
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  Speaker 2: to ask yourself, aren't we doing it wrong? If we're
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  Speaker 2: always exporting our dollars and not bringing it back into
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  Speaker 2: our country, we need this pause. And then you go
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  Speaker 2: into the fact that I'm sure, I hate to say it,
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  Speaker 2: but what if some of these workers are partnering with
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  Speaker 2: the government to do the corruption. I think of what
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  Speaker 2: happened to the un UN staffers were formulating awful plans
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  Speaker 2: with hamas and UNSCO had to fire them. Well, who
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  Speaker 2: does the USAID workers are not teaming up with the
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  Speaker 2: government to suppress the people in addition to giving them
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  Speaker 2: all this aid? And I see all the alarm bells
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  Speaker 2: are going off around the channels. Oh my god, look
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  Speaker 2: how much. And I agree, it's awful that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these countries cannot support themselves. It's horrible that they
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  Speaker 2: can't even support their own citizens. But there's got to
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  Speaker 2: be a fine line between instilling self reliance and self
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  Speaker 2: independence in these foreign countries and US supplying the money
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  Speaker 2: till that happens. Everybody in two thousand and eight was
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  Speaker 2: all about and I might have had a voice in
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  Speaker 2: this too. Thought about this to the bailing out of
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  Speaker 2: the auto industry when all of that crap was going on,
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  Speaker 2: when the recession was going on, and the fact that
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  Speaker 2: there had to be a debate about bailing out anything
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  Speaker 2: about in the perspective of our own people and our
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  Speaker 2: own companies. There were fights against that, and to finish
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  Speaker 2: that thought. Trump is actually, whether you like his tough
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  Speaker 2: talk or not, he is very big on self reliance.
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  Speaker 2: He is very big on saying, hey, NATO, hey, countries
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  Speaker 2: will get this usaid. We will make sure you are
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  Speaker 2: on your own two feet, but we will not give
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  Speaker 2: you all this money the United States gives out sixty
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  Speaker 2: one percent of this comes from USAD. We give out
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  Speaker 2: seventy two billion dollars a year. Okay a year, and
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  Speaker 2: I know Pew had another number as well back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Long, but this is nuts. And as
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  Speaker 2: someone who sees even it's tough for my fiance Gabby
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  Speaker 2: to get to the LR because the roads are so
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  Speaker 2: crappy here and we have to literally roll the streets
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  Speaker 2: of Port Washington because the sidewalks are not even fixed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're giving seventy two billion dollars everybody else in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It has to end now, And I'm sorry if it
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  Speaker 2: sounds heartless, but it has to end now before we can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for evaluation at least, we literally keep printing
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  Speaker 2: money and then we say how much how can we
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  Speaker 2: be in debt? Well, this is a big part of
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  Speaker 2: it that we you know, we kicked down, kicked the
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  Speaker 2: kid down the road, and we put these government what
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  Speaker 2: do they call them, these government spending bills in place
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  Speaker 2: just so we don't shut down the government. Now, half
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  Speaker 2: those federal workers probably gonna be fired or buy out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of stuff going on with
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  Speaker 2: that too, so the government shut down may not be
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  Speaker 2: as relevant as there are no federal workers to you know,
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  Speaker 2: have a working pause. It's a bit of a dark
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  Speaker 2: joke there. Anyway, it's time and I admire I admire
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  Speaker 2: JFK what he did to establish USAID, I admire it.
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  Speaker 2: But this is this was established in sixty one, so
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  Speaker 2: this is a good sixty year plus years later and
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  Speaker 2: it's gone out of control. I don't think he would
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  Speaker 2: want to see US spending set many two billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: in this aid. And again it's one of those things,
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  Speaker 2: what are we paying into? What are we paying out for?
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  Speaker 2: And we know there are government turmoils all over the
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  Speaker 2: damn place, and I'm sure our funding is actually helping
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  Speaker 2: the government suppress its people instead of making them self
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  Speaker 2: reliant and independent. It ends now with President Trump, and
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  Speaker 2: I am for that as much as I am for
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  Speaker 2: the bringing back of plastic straws, and I hope it
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  Speaker 2: extends into plastic bags as well. On the One Leg
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  Speaker 2: Up Network, pausing, evaluating and maybe even cutting off certain
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  Speaker 2: USAID will help America have one leg up for Americans. First,
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  Speaker 2: have a great Saturday. It's Super Bowl Eve. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: what else we can get before the big game tomorrow night.
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