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Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. It is Friday, February 21st, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America.

Cash confirmed. IRS agents fired. Ukrainian minerals and Team USA versus Canada. It's all coming up.

Then Bill's going to be with your message of the day. But first, Cash Patel has been confirmed to be the new head of the FBI.

Cash said, this is before he was nominated in an interview, that if he were ever running the FBI,

he would shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopened it the next day as a museum

of the deep state.

He then said I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in the building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. Your cops. Go be cops. Go chase down murderers and rapists

and drug dealers and violent offenders. Cash was confirmed 51 to 49. Susan Collins from Maine and Murkowski from Alaska were the two

Republicans voted against him. Six thousand IRS employees are being fired. This would eliminate

about six percent of the agency's workforce. These are all probationary employees. These are people

who have been at their job for

for less than a year. But that's not enough. Trump's new Commerce Secretary said the ultimate goal is to

get rid of the IRS entirely. Also yesterday, Trump's National Economic Council Director said the same

thing. The goal is to eliminate the income tax and replace it with tariff revenue. So we have

Trump firing 6,000 IRS agents. Remember,

it was Joe Biden who wanted to increase the number of agents in the IRS by 80,000. Worth

noting that two-thirds of IRS employees are eligible to retire in the next six years. I'll mention

a quick Doge update. Trump threw out the idea of a Doge

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