The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:

• The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes: “Did the Biden Administration learn anything from the massive fraud in pandemic spending programs? Apparently not judging from a new Government Accountability Office report that found the Education Department failed to implement basic checks to prevent fraud in its student loan forgiveness plan. Under the President’s original plan, borrowers who earned less than $125,000 ($250,000 for couples) were eligible for $10,000 to $20,000 in forgiveness. But the Education Department let borrowers ‘self-attest’ that their incomes fell below these thresholds. In other words, trust, but don’t verify. When the department ‘ceased work on the program in response to court orders and prior to relieving any loan debt, more than 26 million borrowers had applied for or were deemed automatically eligible for relief,’ GAO notes.” You can read the full editorial here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/education-department-student-loans-fraud-gao-report-dd867b5f?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
• While appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson joked that while he has some friends that are loyal to the Democrat party, none of them are supporters of President Joe Biden.
• Earlier this month, in a social media post, Democratic political strategist David Axelrod expressed doubt that President Joe Biden could win reelection without strategic changes to his campaign and alterations to how the public perceives him—explaining that Biden needs to decide “whether it’s in his best interest or the country’s” to run again. According to reports, in response to the post, President Biden dismissed the critiques and referred to Axelrod as a “prick.” Now, Axelrod is reaffirming his prognostication. In an interview with Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, Axelrod said that he believes President Biden has a less than “50-50 shot” of winning reelection against presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. You can read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/david-axelrod-goes-even-harder-at-biden-giving-him-50-50-shot-at-2024-win-he-thinks-he-can-cheat-nature/
• Put the Ukraine funding in the basket! Treasury Secretary Janet “Buffalo Bill” Yellen appeared on CNBC earlier today calling for Congress to send tens-of-billions of dollars more in aid to Ukraine.
• According to a report from Oxfam International, the richest 1% of global society emits as much carbon as the bottom two-thirds. Aren’t many of these one-percenters the same people admonishing the rest of society for contributing to global warming? Rich notes that the push for legislation restricting carbon emissions is disingenuous and is actually a thinly veiled attempt to upend capitalism. You can read more here: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/11/20/jet-powered-hypocrisy-richest-1-of-global-elites-emit-as-much-carbon-as-bottom-two-thirds/