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Speaker 1: Miss President, Senator from Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Mister President, the Senator from Louisiana, Thank you, mister President.
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Speaker 1: of the Majority and Minority leaders. Duly noted, Thank you,
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Speaker 1: mister President. With me today is one of my colleagues
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Speaker 1: from my Senate office, mister James Say. He is one
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Speaker 1: of my right hand people and does great work, and
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Speaker 1: I'm hondered that he could join me today. Gosh, I
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Speaker 1: don't know where to begin. I've been in the Senate
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Speaker 1: for eight years. In dog years, that's fifty six years,
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Speaker 1: and it feels like fifty six years. I've learned a
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Speaker 1: lot and met a lot of interesting people. You know,
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Speaker 1: before I got here, everybody told me about the Washington bubble,
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Speaker 1: and I said, aye, you know, how serious could they be? Well?
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Speaker 1: They It's true there is a Washington bubble. This place
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Speaker 1: is different. It's in its own way, sometimes disappointing, sometimes refreshing.
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Speaker 1: It is deeply eared. Uh. For one thing, common sense
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Speaker 1: is illegal in Washington. It's it's illegal. For another thing,
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Speaker 1: I've discovered that this is a town of very frustrated
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Speaker 1: X class presidents, and there's a Washington way of doing things.
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Speaker 1: And when things aren't done that way, when somebody challenges
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Speaker 1: the status quo, many, not all, but many of these
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Speaker 1: frustrated X class presidents in Washington on the Hill and otherwise,
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Speaker 1: they get excited, not in a good way. They can't
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Speaker 1: get their mind around doing anything other than the Washington way.
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Speaker 1: Some of them, particularly in the media, they go almost catatonic,
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Speaker 1: or the exact opposite. They phone at the mouth and
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Speaker 1: they really get upset. They can make they can make
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Speaker 1: a valium nervous. It's like the world, we're not doing
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Speaker 1: things the way we've always done them, and the world's
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Speaker 1: gonna spin off its axis. I want to try to
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Speaker 1: put in perspective what many of my Democratic friends have
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Speaker 1: been talking about today. They're very, very very upset at
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Speaker 1: President Trump, and they're very very very upset at Elon Musk.
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Speaker 1: President Trump ran for president on a number of issues.
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Speaker 1: One of the issues he ran on, he said it
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Speaker 1: almost every day. He said, if you will make me president,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go through the entire budget and review
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Speaker 1: all the spending line by line. I heard if I
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Speaker 1: heard him say that once. I heard him said a
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Speaker 1: thousand times. And that's what he's been doing. He went
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Speaker 1: out and appointed through an executive order, Elon Musk, who
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Speaker 1: some people like him, some don't, but he's not a dummy.
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Speaker 1: He's a very successful business person. He's got a top
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Speaker 1: secret security clearance. President Trump issued an executive order and
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Speaker 1: he turned to mister Musk and he said, mister Musk,
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Speaker 1: I want you to do for me what I said
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Speaker 1: I was going to do in the election. I want
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Speaker 1: you to go through all the spending line by line. Now,
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Speaker 1: let me ask you something, mister president. How are you
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Speaker 1: going to review the spending without reviewing the spending. How
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Speaker 1: are you going to audit the spending by an agency
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Speaker 1: without auditing the agency. That's what I mean when I
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Speaker 1: say common sense is illegal in Washington. They see that's
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Speaker 1: what mister Musk is doing. He's put together a cracker
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Speaker 1: jack team and uh, they're going through everybody spending line
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Speaker 1: by line, item by them. And my my Democratic colleagues
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Speaker 1: are very, very very upset, and they they're they they've
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Speaker 1: been very eloquent. They've talked about the process and President
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Speaker 1: Trump's executive orders supposedly supposedly violates the Constitution. And they've
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Speaker 1: accused mister Musk of having conflicts of interest. And I've
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Speaker 1: heard people say he's sitting over there with a notepad
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Speaker 1: copying down everybody's Social Security number and he's going to
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Speaker 1: go use it to make money. I mean people in
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Speaker 1: this town, not just my Democratic colleagues. They're really upset.
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Speaker 1: They've never said anybody question their spending, but that's what
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Speaker 1: mister Musk is doing. But you know what, I've mistened.
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Speaker 1: This has been going on for a week. People have
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Speaker 1: been screaming like they're part of a prison riot. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, look at what Musk is doing. He's looking
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Speaker 1: at the spending. And I've listened to people talk about
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Speaker 1: the process and debate whether it's constitutional, and discuss how
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Speaker 1: many lawyers can dance on the head of a pen.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, I haven't heard one one single
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Speaker 1: person who's upset with President Trump or mister Musk talk
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Speaker 1: about what he's found. They don't want to talk about
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Speaker 1: the spending, the spending porn, the waste of taxpayer money
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Speaker 1: that he's found. I mean, that's the point of all this.
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Speaker 1: I tell you who is interested, the American people. The
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Speaker 1: people in America who get up every day and go
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Speaker 1: to work and obey the law and pay their taxes
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Speaker 1: and try to educate their kids and try to do
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Speaker 1: the right thing by their kids, and try to save
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Speaker 1: a little money for retirement. And I've had to live
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Speaker 1: through twenty percent inflation under President Biden. They understand what
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Speaker 1: Musk is doing. They understand spending porn and wasting taxpayer money. Now,
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Speaker 1: mister Musk started with the U. S a I D.
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Speaker 1: That hands handles and a lot of a foreign aid
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Speaker 1: for America. American people very generous and in our country,
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Speaker 1: Uh you know, when you're homeless, will will house you
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Speaker 1: when you're when you're hungry, we'll feach in our country.
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Speaker 1: When you're too poor to be sick, we'll pay for
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Speaker 1: you doctor. And we we send a lot of money
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Speaker 1: overseas to help our world's neighbors. And the U. S
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Speaker 1: a I D Is in charge in large part of that.
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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what mister Musk discovered. I find
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Speaker 1: it it fascinating. He discovered that the American taxpayers are
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Speaker 1: giving money to Afghanistan. He found that we are giving
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Speaker 1: money to Yemen. He found that we are giving money
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Speaker 1: to Assyria. I didn't know that some of our foreign
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Speaker 1: aid is going to Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria. He found that
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Speaker 1: the USAID has ten thousand people, ten thousand people employees,
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Speaker 1: and every year they give away forty billion dollars. Mister
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Speaker 1: Musk also found and I'm not saying that all of
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Speaker 1: this money is wasteful. I'm not Some of this money
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Speaker 1: I'm sure does some good. That's why Secretary of Rubio
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Speaker 1: is going to revamp the department to separate the good
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Speaker 1: from the bat. But this is the kind of stuff
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Speaker 1: mister Musk found. He found that the USAID gave money
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Speaker 1: to support electric vehicles in Vietnam, our money, taxpayer money.
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Speaker 1: He found that USAID gave money to a transgender clinic
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Speaker 1: in India. I didn't know that. Bestially, the American people
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Speaker 1: didn't know that. He found that the USA I D
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Speaker 1: gave one point five million dollars to a Serbian LB
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Speaker 1: LGBTQ group called GROUPA is a dodgy. I probably mispronounced
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Speaker 1: that in my apologies. Anyway, they got one point five
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Speaker 1: million dollars to quote advanced diversity, equity inclusion in Serbia's
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Speaker 1: workplaces and business community. What else did mister Musk found
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Speaker 1: that my colleagues don't want to talk about. Well, he
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Speaker 1: reviewed a study and then went and checked it. The
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Speaker 1: study was done by the Middle East Ford. They found
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Speaker 1: that USAID spent one hundred and sixty four million dollars
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Speaker 1: to support radical organizations around the world. We're not talking
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Speaker 1: cub Scout troops here, We're talking about radical organizations around
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Speaker 1: the world. They gave one hundred and twenty two million
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Speaker 1: dollars of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorists, organizations
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Speaker 1: our taxpayer money. According to this report in mister Musk,
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Speaker 1: the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations
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Speaker 1: in Gaza controlled by allmus Why aren't my colleagues talking
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Speaker 1: about that. Recipients of the money they found have quote
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Speaker 1: called for their lands to be cleansed from the impurity
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Speaker 1: of Jews. That's what we're getting on far and eight too.
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Speaker 1: What else I'm not gonna spend my whole time talking
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Speaker 1: about this, but nobody else is talking about it. They're
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Speaker 1: just talking about the process. And mister Musk and he's
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Speaker 1: a mean guy, and he shouldn't be looking at our
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Speaker 1: spending well of his, And I kind I kind of
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Speaker 1: find what he's found out interesting. He found that we
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Speaker 1: gave two million dollars USAID did for sex changes in Guatemala.
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Speaker 1: He found that we gave twenty million dollars to produce
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Speaker 1: a new sesame street show in a rack. He found
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Speaker 1: that we we gave four point five million dollars of
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Speaker 1: taxpayer money to combat disinformation in Kazakistan. He found that
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Speaker 1: we gave ten million dollars USAID did of meals to
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Speaker 1: an al Qaeda linked terrorist group called the Nousrough Front.
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Speaker 1: Mister Musk found that we gave seven point nine million
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Speaker 1: dollars of taxpayer money to a project that would teach
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Speaker 1: three lacking journalists to avoid binary gendered language. We took
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Speaker 1: the USAID took eight million bucks and gave it to
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Speaker 1: a bunch of journalists in shrn Akka to teach him
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Speaker 1: how to avoid binary gendered language. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: the hell binary gendered language is. I think, I do
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Speaker 1: you think most taxpayers would support that? Why are we
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Speaker 1: talking about that? Or the USAID gave one point five
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Speaker 1: million dollars to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica. They gave
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Speaker 1: one point five million dollars to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem.
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Speaker 1: They gave one point five million dollars for quote art
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Speaker 1: for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus, another three
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Speaker 1: point nine million dollars for LGBT causes in Macedonia, eight
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Speaker 1: point three million dollars for equity and inclusion education in Nepaul.
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Speaker 1: I could go all night and many of my colleagues
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Speaker 1: are upset. They're really mad. Ms Hew, I think we
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Speaker 1: all to give him a medal. All he's doing is
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Speaker 1: what President Trump said he was going to do. President
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Speaker 1: Trump said he's going to audit to spend h So
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Speaker 1: Trump goes and hires Musk a game with the top
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Speaker 1: top secret security clearance. Nobody can quibble with his intelligence.
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Speaker 1: You know, the guys as smart as Einstein's cousin. He's
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Speaker 1: a very successful businessman, some says the richest guy in
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Speaker 1: the world. And he's doing the auditing, and man, he's
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Speaker 1: finding a lot of stuff. I call it a spending porn.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying everything that USAID does is wasted,
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Speaker 1: but I'm saying a lot of it is. Handle of
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Speaker 1: a lot of it is. And we ought to be
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Speaker 1: on the flour this United States Senate thanking mister Musk,
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Speaker 1: and we ought to be asking him to go through
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Speaker 1: every agency and look at everybody's budget, everybody's budget. That's
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Speaker 1: what the American people want. They don't want to talk
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Speaker 1: about process, they don't want to continue with the Washington way.
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Speaker 1: They want to save some money. And let me tell
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Speaker 1: you what's really going on here too, mister President. For
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Speaker 1: four years under President Biden and for what eight years
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Speaker 1: under President Obama, and I respect both of them. I
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Speaker 1: don't hate anybody. I don't. When I say my present night,
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Speaker 1: one of the things I ask God, God, don't let
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Speaker 1: me hate, because it's hard in Washington. Don't let me hate.
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Speaker 1: I have all the respect in the world for President
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Speaker 1: Biden and Prison Obama. Tough job, but between them, they
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Speaker 1: spent twelve years in Washington, and presidents set the tone.
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Speaker 1: They control the questions that are asked. And here's the
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Speaker 1: question that President Obama and President Biden ask for eight years,
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Speaker 1: I heard it every for twelve years, I heard it
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Speaker 1: every single day. Who needs to pay more in taxes?
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Speaker 1: Is it you? Is it you? Who needs to pay
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Speaker 1: more in taxes? We need more money? Who needs to
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Speaker 1: pony up more? That was the issue. But that's not
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Speaker 1: the issue today. We have a new president. You know
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Speaker 1: what the issue is today? What the hell happened all
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Speaker 1: the money? What the hell happened all the money? And
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Speaker 1: that's what mister Musk is finding out. That's all this
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Speaker 1: is about. And I'm just I'm just shocked that my
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Speaker 1: colleagues have decided that this is a hell they're going
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Speaker 1: to die on. How can you look the American people
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Speaker 1: in the eye and support this kind of waste, support
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Speaker 1: this kind of spending. Point, I mean, the election, to me,
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Speaker 1: made at least one thing clear that the American people
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Speaker 1: are sick and tired of people in Washington denying reality.
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Speaker 1: The last administration tried to convince us that we were
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Speaker 1: living in a crime free world where inflation was temporary
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Speaker 1: and the border was secure and the American people didn't
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Speaker 1: bite you know why, because it wasn't true. And the administration,
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Speaker 1: our last administration tried to argue that bid noomics was
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Speaker 1: making our lives better. But the American people knew differently.
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Speaker 1: They understood idonomics to mean I get this to spend
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Speaker 1: more to live worse, and they voted. Now. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the American people were poorer under the last administration, but
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Speaker 1: they didn't become stupid that they could see that the
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Speaker 1: government was creating a problem. I'm not trying to fix it.
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Speaker 1: And they noticed the national debt to put up that
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Speaker 1: first chart for me. You know what our national debt is,
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Speaker 1: mister president, of thirty six trillion dollars, not million, not billion,
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Speaker 1: thirty six trillion dollars. It takes my breath away. Hes
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Speaker 1: it's ever been over one hundred percent of our gross
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Speaker 1: domestic product. Our debts growing faster than our economy. And
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Speaker 1: we toss around these numbers A trillion, a billion, a million,
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Speaker 1: a squillion like it's nothing. I want to trying to
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Speaker 1: put this in context. If I started counting right now,
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Speaker 1: and I counted one numeral, if you will, per second, one, two, three, four, five,
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Speaker 1: six seven, And I kept counting all day and all night.
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Speaker 1: I didn't sleep. I counted between bites of oatmeal at breakfast.
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Speaker 1: I just counted continually one numeral per second, it would
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Speaker 1: take me thirty two years to count to one billion,
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Speaker 1: thirty two years to count to one billion, it would
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Speaker 1: be two thousand and fifty seven. I'd be dead as
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Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson. I wouldn't win that long. And that's just
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Speaker 1: a billion. Our get's thirty six trillion dollars. You know
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Speaker 1: how long it would take me to count to a trillion,
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Speaker 1: thirty one thousand years. If I counted on one numeral
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Speaker 1: per second about its oldest Chuck Grassey, thirty one thousand years,
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Speaker 1: It would take me one million years to count to
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Speaker 1: thirty six trillion. Those are the kind of numbers we're
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Speaker 1: talking about, and the American people understand it. Since two
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Speaker 1: thousand and nineteen, America's population has grown two percent. We're
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Speaker 1: not having babies two percent, and that's after massive integration immigration.
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Speaker 1: You know how much our budgets has grown fifty five percent?
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Speaker 1: Fifty five percent. Yeah, we've had inflation, but we had
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Speaker 1: had fifty five percent worth of inflation. That's how we
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Speaker 1: got to this thirty six shrillion dollars in debt. Put
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Speaker 1: up the next chart for him. Now, some of this
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Speaker 1: money we had to spend during the pandemic, and it
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Speaker 1: was a bipartisan effort during the pandemic, Republicans voted for
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Speaker 1: it and Democrats voted for it because we had no choice.
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Speaker 1: I was there. I saw it from the inside. We
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Speaker 1: came this close to losing the American economy. And you
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Speaker 1: know who helped a lot doesn't get enough credit. Jay
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Speaker 1: Powell at the Federal Reserve. I watched it. The whole
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Speaker 1: world wanted to go into a cave and retreat. Back
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Speaker 1: in the Great Recession, I remember all the other countries
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Speaker 1: in the world who looked to us. They may hate us,
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Speaker 1: but they know we're the greatest country in all of
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Speaker 1: human history. They looked to America. And you know what,
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Speaker 1: back in the Great Recession, all the other countries wanted
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Speaker 1: our They wanted treasures, treasury notes, treasury bonds. Not this time,
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Speaker 1: they were so scared. They didn't want treasures. They wanted dollars, cash, dollars.
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Speaker 1: So Jay Powell think the lord, and he goes over
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Speaker 1: to the Federal Reserve. He opens what's called a currency
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Speaker 1: swamp line, and he told every country you want dollars,
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Speaker 1: I'll tradure dollars for your current currency. And everything calmed down.
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Speaker 1: He didn't get any credit for that, but it was
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Speaker 1: a gutsy thing to do. But on top of that,
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Speaker 1: save the American economy that wasn't helping the American economy.
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Speaker 1: We had we had to keep the economy going. We
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of money. But then COVID ended, and
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Speaker 1: what we should have done was to go back to
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Speaker 1: free COVID spending, but we didn't do that. President Biden,
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Speaker 1: after the shutdowns in the coronavirus, the pandemic was over passed,
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Speaker 1: the American Rescue Plan, COVID was over He spent one
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Speaker 1: point nine trillion dollars. Never let a good crisis go
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Speaker 1: to waste. I didn't vote for it. Then he came
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Speaker 1: back and passed what he called an infrastructure bill. It
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Speaker 1: was really just a green new deal. I know what's
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Speaker 1: in that bill. That was another one point two treeion dollars.
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Speaker 1: And then he passed the Inflation Reduction Act. I didn't
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Speaker 1: vote for it, but that was another one point zero
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Speaker 1: treeion dollars. And then he passed the Chips Act. This
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Speaker 1: is really special, he said, big tech, the semiconductor companies
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Speaker 1: need our money, they need taxpayer money. They're not making
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Speaker 1: enough money. And he gave them money. He didn't. We
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Speaker 1: have hardware stores money. President Biden didn't give the healthcare
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Speaker 1: industry money. He said, I want to help big tech,
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Speaker 1: and boy, they sucked it up like a hoover. De Monks,
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Speaker 1: we spent two hundred and eighty billion dollars subsidizing big tech,
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Speaker 1: and you add it all up, and that's four point
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Speaker 1: three almost four point five trillion dollars. And that's how
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Speaker 1: we got thirty six trillion dollars in debt. And that's
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Speaker 1: why Donald Trump said, I'm going to look at every
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Speaker 1: single night on him or spending, and that's why he
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Speaker 1: gave the job to Elon Musk. And that's why Musk
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Speaker 1: is auditing these accounts. But nobody wants to talk about
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Speaker 1: what he's finding. Nobody wants to talk about the spending
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Speaker 1: porn except the American people. They get it, mister President,
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Speaker 1: they get it. And I hope mister Musk contind my
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Speaker 1: colleague and friend, we have a little discussion in banking today.
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Speaker 1: Senator Warnam makes a good point. He wants mister Musk
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Speaker 1: to come over and talk to Congress about how he's
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Speaker 1: doing this. I'm all for that. I am all for that.
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Speaker 1: I would love to have him come over and walk
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Speaker 1: us through what he's doing and how he's discovering all
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Speaker 1: this spending form. We need all the help we can
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Speaker 1: get on reducing our spending because we can't continue at
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Speaker 1: this pace. I just want to spend a few minutes
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Speaker 1: putting all this in perspective, Miss President. The world's not
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Speaker 1: going to spend office acts. As folks, every business that
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Speaker 1: I know of goes through an audit. Now we're being audited,
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Speaker 1: but we're being audited by not by the usual auditors,
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Speaker 1: but we're being auditude by a person appointed by the
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Speaker 1: President of the United States. And I bet you bet you.
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Speaker 1: When he's through and he's going to go go to
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Speaker 1: all these agencies, he's starting on an Apartment of Education next,
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Speaker 1: I think he'll end up finding that some of our
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Speaker 1: money is being well spent. But he's also going to
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Speaker 1: find that some of our money's being stolen and it's
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Speaker 1: being wasted. And that's an insult to every taxpayer in
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Speaker 1: this country. So I say I'm going to end like
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Speaker 1: im again. We ought to be given mister Musk a medal.
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Speaker 1: We ought to be thanking him. Maybe nobody else wants
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Speaker 1: to hear about the spending porn. But I can't wait
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Speaker 1: to read the book. I hope he finds all of
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Speaker 1: it and compiles it. I hope Marco Ruvel and new
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State takes USA I d and shakes them
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Speaker 1: by the shoulder and lifts up the good people there
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Speaker 1: and fires the bad people, the people that wasted taxpayer
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Speaker 1: money like this, giving money to terrorist organizations, giving money
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Speaker 1: to organizations to support Hamas. Hope he gets rid of
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Speaker 1: every single one of them. And I think if we
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Speaker 1: listen to mister Musk, we can save a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: And I hope he does come over and explain, explain
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Speaker 1: what it's doing. I want to talk about one other
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Speaker 1: subjects real quickly. I've talked about before. I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: repeat it. This is India. This is China, which wants
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Speaker 1: to run the whole world. China's already trying to take
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Speaker 1: over the shipping lanes in the South China Sea. This
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Speaker 1: is the Chego Silence right down here. Years ago, the
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Speaker 1: Chego's islands were owned by France. France seeded the Chego
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Speaker 1: Silence to our friends and in Great Britain UK, and
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Speaker 1: a number of years ago the United Kingdom and America
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Speaker 1: got together and we built mostly with American dollars. By
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Speaker 1: the way, we built a military base in the Chegos Islens,
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Speaker 1: on one particular island called Diego Garcia, and it's a
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Speaker 1: really important military base. For one thing, it's very close
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Speaker 1: to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean in China,
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Speaker 1: so we can watch them. For another thing, it's where
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Speaker 1: it's one of the only port bases where our nuclear
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Speaker 1: submarines can dock. Hugely important. Well, the United Nations got
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Speaker 1: mad at the United Kingdom. They said, Great Britain, you're
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Speaker 1: bad people. You used to be colonialists. You acquired other countries,
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Speaker 1: sometimes freely, sometimes by force. Every country I know of
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Speaker 1: in the world of any strength has done. That doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean we ought to be proud of it, but it's
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Speaker 1: part of our history. But the United Nations said, shame
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Speaker 1: on you, the UK, shame on you, bad, bad, bad bad.
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Speaker 1: You have to give back the Chego's Islands and the
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Speaker 1: military based there. And the UN doesn't have any jurisdiction
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Speaker 1: over the United Kingdom. But the UN said, not only
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Speaker 1: do you have to give it back, but you don't
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Speaker 1: give it back to the people of the Chego's Islands.
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Speaker 1: You give it back to another group of islands way
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Speaker 1: down here called Mauritius. Mauritius used to own the Chego's
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Speaker 1: Islands when France seated them to Great Britain. They were
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Speaker 1: run by Mauritius. But the people of the two island
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Speaker 1: groups of archipelagos, archipelagos that people don't have any affinity. Now,
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Speaker 1: what's Mauritius say. Of course will take it, but they
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Speaker 1: want to start charging the United States and the UK
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Speaker 1: nine billion pounds for a ninety nine year lease so
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Speaker 1: we can ease our own military base. All because the
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom feels guilty because somebody
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Speaker 1: some tofu eating wokarate at the United Nations says they're
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Speaker 1: bad people, but bad, bad, bad colonists. Well, and the
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister of the of the United Kingdom he's going
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Speaker 1: along with it, but he says, I'm negotiating with Mauritius
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Speaker 1: and the people of the leader of Mauritius just issued
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Speaker 1: to press. He said, yeah, he's negotiating, he's increased the
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Speaker 1: price and he's short in the leash. Now you know
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Speaker 1: who's loving all of this, China, Because China has a
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Speaker 1: close relationship with Mauritius. And you know what's gonna get
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Speaker 1: a lot closer. This is insane. This is so deep stupid.
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Speaker 1: This is boned deep down to the mari stupid because
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Speaker 1: the United Nations wants the United Kingdom to feel guilty.
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Speaker 1: They want to give our military base and their military
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Speaker 1: base to Mauritius. Now, the Prime Minister of the United
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Speaker 1: Kingdom can stop this. And Marco Rubio, our new Secretary
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Speaker 1: of State, is against it, and I haven't talked to
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Speaker 1: him directly, but I think President of Trump is against it.
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Speaker 1: The United Kingdom is our friend. I went to school
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Speaker 1: there for a while. I love him and I want
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Speaker 1: to see the Prime Minister do well. But he needs
33:08
Speaker 1: to put down the bomb. He needs to put down
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Speaker 1: the bomb. This makes absolutely no sense and it's going
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Speaker 1: to be a big part of his legacy if he
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Speaker 1: gives away this, this island and our military base to
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Speaker 1: in effect what will eventually be China. So I would
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Speaker 1: say to the Prime Minister tonight, I don't mean any disrespect.
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Speaker 1: I want to say this respectfully. I shouldn't have said
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Speaker 1: the bomb part. I take it back, please, mister Prime Minister,
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Speaker 1: don't do this. Don't do this. We'll stand with you
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Speaker 1: and telling the United Nations who's upset with you to
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Speaker 1: go fill out of Hurt Feelings Report because we're not
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Speaker 1: doing it. We'll stand with you. Please say no, don't
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Speaker 1: give this. Don't give our military base away. It's going
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Speaker 1: to really hurt the relationship between the United States of
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Speaker 1: American United Kingdom. I know Donald Trump pretty well, I
34:09
Speaker 1: know Marco Rubio pretty well. They'll forgive, but they'll never
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Speaker 1: ever forget. Don't do it, mister Prime. I've taken too
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Speaker 1: much time. I'm sorry. I yield to my colleague from
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Speaker 1: my Virginia.
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Speaker 3: It's the president, yes, sir, the senator from Virginia, it's
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Speaker 3: the President.
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Speaker 2: Mo