joining in. Welcome to the Jim Acosta show. It's Friday. Thank goodness. It's Friday. T-G-I-F.

As you can see on screen with me is Olivia Troy, former Trump administration official,

National Security Advisor to Mike Pence. And we're going to talk, the reason why I wanted to

bring Olivia on, for a lot of reasons, honestly. But one of the things that I've

been thinking about is this measles outbreak out in Texas, because I know Olivia, you worked with the

COVID Task Force response. I do want to talk about that in just a moment. But I mean, another thing that

you can relate to is being a federal worker who is feeling under siege. And that is what is going on in the nation's

capital right now. It's happening with a lot of federal workers all over the country. And it's also

concerning people who rely on federal benefits. I mean, all of those things seem to be under the

gun right now. And I've been calling this, and perhaps you've seen this, and the audience knows this,

I've been calling this basically what the musk. That's been sort of the subheading for all of

these things. But the reason why I bring this up is, you know, just today the Associated Press is reporting

that Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers that he is not to blame for the firings of thousands

of federal workers, including veterans as he pushes to downsize the government.

Instead, he said in private talks this week that those decisions are left to the various federal

agencies. That's going to come as a surprise to a lot of Americans who watched Trump speech the other

night, and Trump said in front of the entire world that Elon Musk was the head of Doge.

And, of course, there were all those

comments that were made after he said that because in court, in other places, they've made these

representations that Elon Musk is technically not in charge of Doge. And then apparently

Donald Trump told his cabinet secretaries during a meeting yesterday that staffing decisions will be left up to them, not Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.

But tell that to the people, and I'm going to try to get this agency name right, tell that to the people at the U.S. African Development Foundation.

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