Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, February 27th.

Folks, the countdown is on the long-awaited Epstein lists. We're all waiting for it. Pam Bondi,

Attorney General last night on Fox News, saying the documents will be released today.

Now, it's unclear if it's going to be all of them or some of them.

The reports are that it's going to be some of them

with a lot of name redactions.

We hope the name redactions are coming on the part of the victims

and not on the part of the perpetrators

and the people who did these heinous acts

and hung out with this disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

So we're on the wait. We're all waiting and we're all anticipating, highly anticipating

the release of these documents. President Trump formally giving all federal agencies the two weeks

notice. Well, he's given him a two weeks notice to prepare

for large-scale bureaucracy cuts that are expected to come on March 13th. According to a new

release memo from the Office of Management and Budget, also known as the OMB, and the OPM,

the Office of Personal Management, agencies must submit their initial plans for large-scale

reductions in force by March 13.

The directive is part of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, also known as Doge,

a workforce optimization initiative in executive order he signed on February 11th,

which aims, of course, to eliminate waste, bloat, and any sort of unnecessary spending in the Washington bureaucracy.

And it's not just the federal agencies who are learning the hard way, Fafo, FFRAN, find out. Canada and Mexico

also learning the hard way, President Trump letting both nations know that on March 4th, the tariffs

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