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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Trump, Elon & DOGE Slashing Big Gov to Save Your Tax Dollars

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0

It is all about getting rid of people that are wasting your money in our government under Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the Department of Doge.

0:08.3

We also have found out now that a contract for $168,000, your tax dollars, for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit has been terminated after we exposed it on this show and it went viral.

0:25.3

This was something that we put in my podcast, the 47 morning update, and it literally exploded in social media.

0:33.1

And it was a contract for a pricey museum exhibit for Dr. Fauci.

0:37.9

It's now been canceled. As the Department of Government Efficiency exposed the rampant waste.

0:42.6

Now, this museum piece, as they tried to describe it, an exhibit, was nothing more than what basically looked like a kids' high school science project, where you get the poster board, you bend it on the the left and right so it kind of looks like a three-dimensional you know three-sided

0:57.8

thing that's what this looked like but there was glass in front of it you were paying a

1:02.9

hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars for this uh which is totally insane now doge which is

1:10.5

led by must made the announcement in social

1:12.5

media posts explaining that officials of the Department of Health and Human Services made

1:18.0

swift work of canceling millions of dollars with the contracts, and they're not stopping because

1:23.2

they keep finding more. Quote, in the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contracts worth 182 million.

1:31.1

The amount of money that we are saving because of this is just unbelievable.

1:37.2

62 contracts, 182 million.

1:39.4

Now, I keep saying this because I want to paint the picture so you understand.

1:43.1

When the government spends 182 million, it's not really $182 million.

1:47.0

It's probably more like $500 million because we're borrowing that money and we're paying interest on that money just like when you have a 30-year note on your home.

1:55.0

This is, so if we're spending $182 million, it's for $500 all set and done, and it could even go higher than that.

2:05.0

These contracts were entirely for what they described as administrative expenses.

2:11.2

None of them, by the way, touched the health care programs within HHS.

2:16.5

So you've got $1820.62 contracts from HHS.

2:21.6

None of them dealt with health care programs.

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