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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

The Great Government Cleanup from Gender Equity Grants to Transgender Mice

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

  1. Government Waste Reduction:

    • The USDOL canceled $577 million in grants, including $10 million for gender equity in the Mexican workplace and other international projects.
    • Examples of canceled grants include $12.2 million for worker empowerment in South America and $6.25 million for improving respect for workers' rights in agricultural supply chains in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
  2. DOGE's Savings Leaderboard:

    • DOGE updated its savings leaderboard, showing $130 billion in estimated savings from various initiatives like asset sales, contract cancellations, fraud deletion, and regulatory savings.
    • The savings amount to $807.45 per taxpayer, with 9,289 grant terminations totaling $32 billion in savings.
  3. President Trump's Speech:

    • President Trump highlighted findings of waste, fraud, and abuse in federal government spending, including $22 billion from AHHS for free housing and cars for illegal aliens and $45 million for diversity scholarships in Burma.
  4. Elon Musk's Role:

    • Elon Musk has been actively involved in uncovering government waste and promoting transparency.
    • Musk's efforts have led to significant savings and reforms, including an executive order to protect America's bank account.
  5. Historical Context:

    • We compare current efforts to reduce government waste with similar initiatives by former President Barack Obama in 2011.
    • It questions why Democrats supported Obama's efforts but oppose similar actions by Trump and Musk.
  6. Health and Human Services (HHS) Cuts:

    • HHS Secretary Kennedy plans to cut 10,000 jobs and close regional offices, aiming to centralize operations and improve efficiency.
    • The cuts will not affect essential health services but will streamline various departments and merge offices to save money.
  7. Criticism and Political Reactions:

    • Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, have criticized the cuts, claiming they erode the American dream and benefit billionaires at the expense of the elderly and disabled.
    • We argue that these criticisms are unfounded and that the cuts are necessary to reduce waste and improve government efficiency.

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0:00.0

Hey, Clay, if there was a summer camp for critical thinking, we'd be the chief counselors.

0:04.9

Those jellyheads in June would be intellectual warriors by August.

0:09.2

Be a lot of fun, too.

0:10.5

Some Bill and Ted's excellent adventure references thrown in.

0:13.6

This podcast, like a daily dose of that, minus the campfires, archery, and pranking the girls.

0:19.1

The bona fide boot camp for critical thinking you can get in on it for free at the

0:24.1

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0:27.2

Just search our names, play and balk, listen, and subscribe.

0:30.1

I got to tell you, it is so much fun to watch all of the winning that is happening

0:35.6

when it comes to getting rid of government waste.

0:38.6

Doge has now come out saying the Department of Labor has canceled $577 million in America last

0:47.1

grants, including funding for gender equity in the, quote, Mexican workplace. Don't blame me for

0:54.0

this. I'm just giving you the numbers.

0:56.9

So let me dial you through this latest massive cut. The U.S. Department of Labor canceling the

1:03.2

$57 million of America last contracts, including $10 million that was going for gender equity in the

1:09.3

Mexican workplace.

1:13.9

Quote unquote, the Department of Government Efficiency has announced.

1:17.7

Great work today by USDOL and the secretary.

1:25.2

They're canceling the 57 million in America-A-Last grants for 237 million in savings.

1:29.2

Listing some examples of the wasteful grants that were canceled.

1:36.3

One of the grants was worth that $10 million that was literally described as gender equity in the Mexican workplace.

1:46.9

There was another $12.2 million that was for worker empowerment, not in America, but South America.

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