Saturday Headlines: February 15, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including President Trump's executive order to open 625 million acres for oil drilling, the potential layoffs at the IRS, and significant savings identified by HUD.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawc with this Great America Show, Midday Update for Saturday, February 15th. |
| 0:05.3 | Happy Saturday, folks. I hope your weekends are off to a great start. If you're like me, up in the |
| 0:09.6 | northeast, expecting some snow over the next few hours. Nothing too crazy, but some flurries hit in the |
| 0:15.6 | northeast. President Trump taking the battle to the oil fields. President Trump signing an executive order reversing Biden's ban and opening 625 million acres across America for drilling. |
| 0:28.8 | President Trump announcing this executive order alongside Interior Secretary Doug Berkwam. |
| 0:34.2 | Now, Biden, in one of his final acts as president, I don't know if you can even call him a president, |
| 0:39.2 | acting president, impersonator in chief, whatever you want to call him. |
| 0:44.8 | And his final days had ramped up his war on oil, probably doing all he can to drive fuel |
| 0:51.9 | prices and oil prices through the roof before President Trump |
| 0:54.9 | came in just so he can blame him for one more thing. But the American people know better |
| 1:00.3 | than that, not to fall for that scam. So President Trump opening at 625 million acres for drilling |
| 1:07.0 | again that was previously opened but shut down by the Biden regime, as I said, |
| 1:12.4 | to probably drive oil prices through the roof and putting a burden on the American people |
| 1:17.6 | for not voting for Kamala Harris. President Trump also planning around 9,000 layoffs at the |
| 1:24.2 | bloated IRS. Redundancies already are underway. The IRS is the latest federal |
| 1:30.1 | agency to likely get a major, major, major, major face job with some cuts. According to a report |
| 1:36.2 | from the Washington Post, the administration has went to cut around 9,000 jobs at the agency, |
| 1:40.7 | specifically targeted at employees who are still on their probationary period. |
| 1:44.5 | So those are folks who just got hired over there. |
| 1:47.8 | The number is not immediately confirmed, but they're rounding it out. |
| 1:51.5 | That'll be about 9,000, according to a spokesman for both the IRS and the Treasury. |
| 1:57.2 | The layoffs are likely targeting tax collectors. |
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