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So we all know that the House was able to cut about 1,500 pages of a ridiculous bill continuing resolution that was

filled with waste and abuse and just pure corruption of Washington, D.C. We know now that the

Senate has passed it, so there's not going to be a government shutdown. Now, in general, I want to be

clear, this is great news. The media is going to be a government shutdown. Now, in general, I want to be clear, this is great news.

The media is going to spin this in a different way. What the media is going to do is they are

going to spin it to tell you, to make you believe, okay, that this is somehow it was a big waste

of time and that nothing actually big good or successful

came out of this i'll give you an example of what i mean by this um senator haggerty republican

tennessee was on a state of the union on cnn on sunday and i want you to hear what he had to say as CNN tried to

turn averting a shutdown, which is a victory, into a somehow disaster. And also trying to claim that

you guys really didn't accomplish anything at all by cutting 1,500 pages of

spending waste, abuse, and fraud and just pure corruption out of the first bill, which turned

into the second bill that was 100-something pages, all right? I want you to hear CNN putting this

together, trying to tell America that this was somehow a failure

for Trump, a failure for for people that want to have responsibility in spending a failure for

Elon Musk, a failure for Vich Ramosami, a failure for Doge, even though it clearly was a victory.

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