Welcome to Bright Bart News Daily. Thanks for being here. The wonderful wonderful Francis Martel. She's awesome. We talk all about

China and communism and the countries all around China. And are they going to choose America?

In this economic battle, are they going to choose America? Are they going to choose their neighbor China?

She's awesome, as always. So we'll play that in a minute. But first, we're going to pivot this week a little bit away from the external aspects of tariffs,

and more on the internal.

Meaning what do we have to do in America, our culture too, to make this work.

And that's welfare, education,

and just our consumerist culture.

Music A couple quick news stories.

Then we'll get to Mike Roe.

This Mike Roe clip, that's just great.

The Attorney General of Maine, standing firm on letting boys compete in girls' sports, which is great.

They wrote a letter, politically, it's great.

They wrote a letter to the president saying they're not going to comply and that we're at an impasse.

So now the Department of Education has formally started the process of cutting funds to Maine.

So that's great.

I make an example of them, but also drag it out till the midterms.

If you drag out this battle until 2026, they'd be great.

And make it very clear who these people still are and haven't changed a lick going into

2026 politically sounds fine to me Pete Heggseth also ended $5.1 billion in Department

of Defense contracts mostly consulting services $5.1 billion at these big consulting houses. So they're not happy.

But I don't know, maybe we have anyone who works for these consulting companies. I don't know what they do.

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