Trump Floats Ending FEMA, Bannon Pleads Guilty, Plastic Straws Return| Feb. 11

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: President Donald Trump calls for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Trump ally Steve Bannon pled guilty to fraud charges regarding the funding of part of President Donald Trump‘s border wall. President Donald Trump signs an executive order bringing back plastic straws. The United States Agency for International Development pours money into terrorist organizations President Donald Trump meets with the leader of Jordan, King Abdullah. Links From Today’s Show: Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	Will President Trump eliminate FEMA?
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0:42.2	This is the Daily Signals Top News in 10 for Tuesday, February 11th.
0:56.9	President Donald Trump called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a post on truth social Tuesday morning.
0:59.5	Trump wrote on his social media platform,
1:07.3	FEMA spent tens of millions of dollars in Democrat areas disobeying orders, but left the people of North Carolina high and dry.
1:09.4	It is now under review and investigation.
1:11.9	The Biden-run FEMA has been a disaster.
1:18.4	FEMA should be terminated. It has been slow and totally ineffective. Individual states should handle storms, et cetera, as they come. Big savings? Far more efficient. Trump's statement comes,
1:24.7	as the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday morning it's firing four employees responsible for making payments to house illegal aliens in luxury hotels in New York City.
1:34.2	A statement from a DHS spokesperson said, effective immediately FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments
1:45.8	for luxury New York City hotels for migrants. The four employees being fired include FEMA's
1:51.8	chief financial officer, two program analysts, and a grant specialist, according to the spokesperson.
1:57.7	The terminations of the FEMA employees come one day after Elon Musk wrote on X that the Department of Government Efficiency discovered FEMA sent $59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.
2:11.3	Under the leadership of Trump and DHS Secretary Kristy Noem, DHS will not sit idly by and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people, the DHS spokesperson said.
2:25.4	Trump ally, Steve Bannon, pleaded guilty to fraud charges regarding the funding of part of President Donald Trump's border wall.
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