Advisory Councils - February 17th, Hour 2
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Roger Severino, VP of Domestic Policy at Heritage and Trump's former Director of the Office of Civil Rights (HHS) and Hans von Spakovsky, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies join to discuss what is and isn’t legal about the actions that DOGE is taking. Hans had an article out last week also detailing how this was not the first time a President had an advisory council:
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| 0:00.0 | right thanks got chan an hour to shan hanity show 800941 sean our number if you want to be a part of |
| 0:07.3 | the program the freak out over doge continues as they dug up another 1.9 billion dollars in |
| 0:14.3 | taxpayer money misplaced quote by the by the by the man how do you misplace 1.9 billion you know how is it we're now you know |
| 0:23.5 | about where we're facing what is a a massive massive debt in this country and you know the idea |
| 0:33.2 | that somehow Donald Trump saying okay this has got to got to stop. The American taxpayers were deceived. |
| 0:39.1 | They did not spell out where this money was being spent or how it was being spent |
| 0:44.3 | or her radical, you know, this money abroad was. |
| 0:48.1 | And as a result, as the American people get more and more aware of it, they're just |
| 0:53.5 | getting sick and tired of it. |
| 0:55.7 | Most Democrats remain in freak out mode, and they will forever stay there probably throughout the entire Trump presidency. |
| 1:04.4 | Lee Zeldon announced a $50 million environmental justice contract that he had to cancel for the Palestinians. |
| 1:13.4 | And Republicans, by the way, are unleashing something that was first put in place by Thomas Jefferson himself, which is the |
| 1:23.0 | empowerment clause, which is the practice of declining to spend funds provided by Congress. |
| 1:28.7 | And I think they will be successful in that effort, you know, considering our founders, |
| 1:34.0 | framers, were very clear about their belief in limited government, greater freedom. |
| 1:39.4 | But the bottom line freak out continues, although there are a couple of Democrats, interestingly, that, you know, we saw the Obama guys in their little podcast, Pod Save America, whatever it is, saying, you know what, and we think of this idea. |
| 1:55.0 | Now, you have some Democrats now admitting, oh, Doge is a good idea. |
| 1:59.8 | Well, good. |
| 2:00.4 | Maybe they'll put their money where their mouth is and their votes where their mouth is. |
| 2:04.1 | Let's listen. |
| 2:05.3 | And I think we're missing the boat as Democrats. |
| 2:07.3 | And all I'm saying is that sometimes it's better to join them and actually play a role in how the strategy works rather than so pathetically, frankly, try to combat something that clearly |
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