DOGE $$ Cuts, Senate Budget Bill, Trump vs. Maine | Feb. 21, 2025

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner is just a few weeks on the job, but he’s already saving money for American taxpayers. The HUD secretary spoke with The Daily Signal from CPAC today. It took an all-night vote-a-rama, but finally at 4:45 a.m. the U.S. Senate approved a $340 billion budget reconciliation bill. The final vote was 52 to 48, with just one Republican—Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky—voting against the measure. President Trump met with the nation’s governors at the White House today, and he used the occasion to call out Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the issue of male athletes competing against women in sports. Plus, our news flash: Sen. Josh Hawley reintroduced legislation to assign a special inspector general to investigate U.S. funding for Ukraine. Hamas handed over the bodies of four deceased Israeli hostages Thursday, but one of them was not Shiri Bibas. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ upcoming trial date was vacated, but Judge Dale Hol refused to dismiss the federal charges. President Trump will close out the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday. The Daily Signal will be at CPAC to cover his remarks. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.0	Top News in 10 for Friday, February 21st, 2025.
0:50.4	Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Scott Turner is just a few weeks on the job, but he's already saving money for American taxpayers.
0:58.0	Following the lead of the Department of Government Efficiency, HUD this week canceled $4 million in diversity equity and inclusion contracts.
1:07.0	The agency's newly formed Doge Task Force has already uncovered $260 million in savings.
1:13.6	Turner was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 5th and quickly got to work at HUD.
1:19.6	He spoke Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference and dropped by the Daily Signal to talk about his work.
1:26.6	Already, you seem to be embracing the Department of Government Efficiency and making some cuts at HUD.
1:32.3	Tell us about the early efforts that you're undertaking.
1:35.0	Well, absolutely.
1:35.7	Thank you for having me today.
1:37.0	You know, we have a tremendous team at HUD, and from day one, we started working.
1:42.4	The first thing we did was take down an equal access rule, which was a Biden era rule.
1:47.4	And what it does with President Trump's leadership is to restore biological truth to the
1:52.8	federal government.
1:54.1	And so any HUD-funded facility, including women's shelters, will make sure that those that
1:59.8	come in are what their sex was at birth,
2:02.9	you know, to protect the people to come in those shelters.
2:04.8	Also, you said, you know, we have been working very closely with Doge to find any waste fraud
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