It's Thursday, March 6, 2025.

I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview.

The Department of Government Efficiency, known as Doge, has been getting a lot of attention

in Washington.

President Trump drew attention to this particular

new department, not a federal department lasting in terms of the structure as of yet, but when put in

place by President Trump himself, the president pointed to Doge and he pointed to Elon Musk,

its director, and he pointed to some of its achievements as he

described them as the president sat out his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this

week. But many Americans are basically in the dark about what is going on here. Furthermore,

there have been suspicions, and indeed there's been plenty of evidence for a very

long time, very hard evidence for a very long time, that an awful lot of government spending

is not only out of control, frivolous, and wasteful, but it is downright subversive of the values

held by millions of Americans. And that's exactly what has come to light with an article that

has appeared in the New York Times about what has resulted as the cutoff on some of the funding

in the nation of Uganda when it comes to USAID funds. That's USAID in Development Funds. Now, conservatives

for a long time have felt that a good deal of mischief

has been going by. And of course, to the tune of millions and indeed billions of dollars of American

taxpayer money, this New York Times article basically warns that there have been negative impacts

in this cutoff of American aid, or at least a shut off for now

of this American aid pending an investigation and evaluation. The headline in the New York Times

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