Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Monday, February 17th.

Happy President's Day, everybody, and happy President's Day to our great 45 and 47 President Donald

J. Trump, our savior at this point in time. President Trump yesterday, heading out to the Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida, the first

NASCAR race of the season, President Trump talking to the media saying he's working on a plan

for Ukraine to pay back the $350 billion that the U.S. has sent to them.

President Trump has previously floated the idea of taking rare earth minerals from Ukraine or figuring out a way.

Zelensky doesn't seem to be on board with it.

Now, I'm not entirely sure why.

Zelensky didn't think he was getting that money for free, did he?

Did Joe Biden make some sort of deal with him before he left the White House or when he came into the White House.

Scott Besson, who's the Secretary of the Treasury, he's actually over in Ukraine right now

on an overseas trip, trying to put together some documents to figure out how he's going to make

Ukraine pay back that money. Zelensky of Ukraine, not very happy. I have to assume some of that money, that $350

billion, found its way into Zelensky's pocket one way or another. And the Doge

Committee, led by Elon Musk, announced over the weekend they've recovered almost $2 billion,

folks. Folks, that's $2 billion with a B, not million, but billion.

These funds originally allocated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development,

also known as HUD, under the Biden regime for financial services administration,

and they were identified as, quote, unnecessarily due to procedural inefficiencies.

I'm not entirely sure what that means, but what I do understand is $2 billion of HUD money

was misplaced and misappropriated and somehow found just laying around.

$2 billion is a lot of money, folks, that can bail out some cities across America, maybe help some homeless

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