Welcome, it is verdict with Ted Cruz. Weekend review, Ben Ferguson with you. And if it sounds like I'm under the weather, I have the flu right now, but the show, as they say, must go on. So here are the three stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week. First up, Democrats not in charge and don't mind shutting down the government to hurt Donald Trump. So will it work? We'll explain that in a moment.

Also, Social Security checks are going out to people that are 150 years old.

That's right, Doge is uncovering more waste, fraud, and abuse.

It's incredible what we found in the first three weeks, and we'll have the list for you as well.

And finally, USAID money going directly to terrorist organizations and charities,

and the government knew it the entire time. It's the weekend review, and it starts right now.

Democrats now trying to figure out their footing. They had Alam Omar who went on TV today

saying that Trump has decided he will not abide by the Constitution, just throwing it out

there. And then she says, by the way, every executive order that's been to court now has been

shut down by the court. That's a lie, not true. But even face the nation, try to softly correct

her because they want this to be true, right? And then there's this new threat of like,

all right, we'll just shut down the government. I kind of laugh because for many concerns,

like, great, let's shut it down and save some money for a while. I wish it worked that way.

I wish it was that simple. It's obviously not. But this is the new temper tantrum of the left. They're saying,

if we aren't in charge, then we want to destroy what the government does well. We want to hurt people

and we want to shut down the government to hurt people so you'll blame Donald Trump. That's what

this is really all about. Am I wrong? Well, look, understand there's a battle going back and forth, and at some level this

battle is inherent in the structure of our government. It's inherent in the Constitution.

Congress, under Article 1, all legislative power is vested in the Congress of the United States.

Congress passes the laws that the president signs into law and that are then binding federal law.

The executive, all executive power is vested in the president of the United States.

That's under Article 2 of the Constitution.

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