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Trump and Musk push back on critics. Tensions escalate between Trump and Zelensky and violence erupts in Brooklyn.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley.

It's Wednesday, February 19th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.

Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today

to protest cuts made by the Trump administration.

The protests centered on advocating for federal workers and funding for what they say is critical

research.

Democrats like Senator Chris Van Hollen say this has nothing to do with making government more efficient.

This has everything to do to taking over the reins of government, to serve the already

powerful, and to slash public services that help every American to make more room for tax cuts

for Elon Musk.

That is what this corrupt bargain is all about. Meanwhile, last night in an

interview with Fox's Sean Hannity, both Trump and Musk hit back against the left's, quote,

absurd and politically motivated claims. They say critics are projecting their own wrongdoing onto the

administration. They're saying that things are being done unconstitutional, but what they are doing is unconstitutional.

They are guilty of the crime of which they accuse us.

That's always the first thing they do.

It's in violation of the Constitution.

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