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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. It's Wednesday. February 26th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America.

The cabinet meets spending bill advances. Ukrainian mineral deal finalized in an airport. Close call.

That's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your

message of the day. But first, Trump has his first cabinet meeting today, now that almost the entire

cabinet is put together. Also, Elon Musk will be there, although not officially in the cabinet.

The press secretary said Musk will be talking about Doge efforts and how all the cabinet

secretaries are identifying waste, fraud, and abuse.

In Trump's first term of office, he did not meet with his entire cabinet until June 12th of 2017.

Here we are, just a little over a month, into his second term with his first full cabinet meeting.

Worth remembering on Doge, Harvard released a poll two days ago.

83% of Americans, including 76% of Democrats and 79% of independents, 83% overall, think we

should balance the budget and believe we should do it by cutting government spending.

The House Republicans passed a budget resolution that calls for, they say,

$4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over a decade.

It was nearly party line 217 to 215. The only Republican was Thomas Massey voting against,

and he voted against it because it didn't cut nearly enough, which it doesn't, by the way.

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