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Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to a live edition of the Liz Wheeler Show.

We are streaming right now live on X, on YouTube, on Facebook. And I'm so happy to see you.

Thank you for joining me.

We have a great show. There's a lot of drama unfolding this moment on Capitol Hill.

We're going to bring you the breaking news updates. As we see exactly how good of a deal we have

with this spending bill, it's been reduced from 1,547 pages, a monstrosity, if you ever saw one,

down to just 116 pages, which actually still is a lot of pages. They're calling it clean. I'm not

convinced it's perfectly clean. We're going to talk about that in a moment. We have Mike Benz on

the show with us today because we should take a moment and we should

celebrate the fact that according to my searches, this 116 page document just came out a little

while ago, I see nothing in this revised bill about the so-called global engagement center.

And that's a victory, thanks to you, raising your voice and telling Congress, get that

out of here. There will be no censorship, no spying on the American people, especially a sub-agency

of the State Department that pretends to combat foreign disinformation and then aims its censorship

tentacles at you and at me. But my outstanding question

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