Mark Simone on 710 WOR.

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Let's go to Dave in Chicago.

Dave, how you doing?

Good morning, Mark.

I'm doing very well, thank you.

Mark, I saw a report where President Trump is looking for $9 billion in spending cuts. And what I wanted to

ask you, Mark, is this an extension of Elon Musk's doge work where he found tens of billions

of government wasteful spending? And lastly, who, since Elon Musk is no longer involved, is there

someone else who's taken over? Oh, yeah.

No, the Doge office still operates as a Doge team.

Good question, Dave.

Yeah, the Doge team is still a walk.

Now, Doge was more going into government big bureaucratic departments and cutting out the

waste, like State Department was up to 80,000 employees.

They cut 1,300, which is nothing. You know, the State Department

added 20,000 employees just in the last few years, which is ridiculous. 80,000 people in a department.

So, now, this is different. This is the rescission stuff, which is beginning now, which is cutting

government funding for stuff out in the public, PBS public broadcase you don't need to fund

this anymore there's no reason a million years ago there were only three networks and this was an

alternative so you funded it there's now 17,000 channels there's 80 billion things you can watch

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