A Court WIN For DOGE | Trump Simply Continues to Flex | 2/17/25
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
4.9 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The conversation covers a range of topics including government efficiency, budget reform, the role of federal agencies, international relations, health services leadership, natural disasters, media coverage of controversial incidents, free speech issues, and personal choices of public figures like Elon Musk. The discussion emphasizes the need for transparency, accountability, and the importance of addressing societal issues through effective leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 17, 2025, a flurry of activity once again from the White House. |
| 0:05.0 | The Vake Ramoswami, next governor of Ohio, and the Canadian men's national team messed around, |
| 0:10.3 | and they found out next on the AM update. |
| 0:13.3 | Budget reform is not an option. It's a necessity. |
| 0:16.3 | The American people are entitled to transparency. |
| 0:19.4 | Very few people understand how sinister this agency really is, and President Trump saw |
| 0:25.6 | that, and he stood up to it with a masterstroke. |
| 0:28.6 | Did you hear about the woke gunmen in Milwaukee? |
| 0:33.6 | Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought |
| 0:39.4 | crime. |
| 0:40.6 | In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat. |
| 0:46.3 | A federal judge in Washington on Friday handed Elon Musk's government efficiency team a win |
| 0:51.1 | by declining a request to temporarily block it from accessing sensitive data from |
| 0:55.8 | at least three federal agencies. Unions and non-profits attempted to stop Musk's Department |
| 1:00.4 | of Government Efficiency or Doge from accessing records at the Department of Labor, Health and Human |
| 1:04.8 | Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U.S. District Judge John Bates wrote in an opinion |
| 1:10.2 | that the government was |
| 1:11.2 | likely correct in categorizing Doge as an agency, thereby allowing it to detail its staff |
| 1:16.5 | to other government departments. Now, this John Bates, we talked about him last week. He's this little |
| 1:21.4 | piss-aunt judge who feels like he can call balls and strikes on every little jot and tittle of the |
| 1:25.7 | Trump administration's plans for this |
| 1:27.7 | country. Of course, you've seen Democrats all over the place the last week saying, we didn't vote |
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