Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report. Dr. Paul is not in today. So we will have a little

briefing together. Today I want to talk about something that is extremely important in my view,

and that is the cuts that were identified by the people working for Elon Musk and Elon himself in the very early days

of the Trump administration. Now, if you're anything like me and Dr. Paul, I'm presuming, feels the

same. That was probably the most exciting part of the early Trump 2.0 presidency. You had this

team of young whippersnappers going through the institutions identifying

incredible amounts of waste, incredible amounts of things being done that we had no idea they

were doing and we didn't want them done. You know, you look at particularly places like USAID,

which it turns out was funding an absolute spider web throughout the entire world of things being done that we don't want done.

Funding newspapers, independent media everywhere, right?

90% of Ukraine's independent media was actually funded by the United States government,

which, of course, you get what you pay for.

So it revealed this kind of secret world that the U.S. government had to control opinion

and also to control spending because the foreign media certainly informs our intelligence

services and it informs the domestic media here at home. So you had the mighty word that, sir,

as was once called the secret apparatus of the government that was turned on and tuned up

to crank out what they wanted. So identifying that was

massive and was extremely important, but it wasn't just the foreign aid. That's the kind of the

low-hanging fruit. It was the waste throughout the different agencies, government agencies,

the Department of Education, what have you, you know,

it was hundreds and hundreds of people who just didn't go to work. They had two or three jobs.

They collected a very, very nice salary, government salary, didn't show up, sat around in their

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