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All right, everybody, welcome to the second episode of the Jim Acosta show here on Substack.

A reminder, you can watch this live, of course.

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Or you can watch this later. I'll post a recording of this program in just a bit so you can listen to me in your car.

You can do this as you're on the go or whether you're at home.

Coming up in just a few moments, as you can see at the bottom of my screen here, my first

newsmaker interview of the Jim Acosta show is Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro of Texas.

He joins me in just a few moments.

So stay tuned for that.

But the top story, once again, we talked about this yesterday, is what the Musk.

The White House confirmed today that... Okay.

By the way, it has been making waves in Washington, as you have seen.

And he has announced that the U.S. Agency for International Development would be shut down and

aids to Elon Musk gain access to the Treasury Department's federal payment system.

The new Treasury Secretary, by the way, Scott Besson granted Musk, that highly controversial

access. That system is responsible for Social Security and Medicare payments as well as tax returns.

And I see many of you are logging on now, sending us your chat thoughts and questions.

I should note that one subscriber question that I got in all of this was, will this affect my

social security checks? I mean, that is something

that has been coming across my desk in the last couple of days about all of this. But again,

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