Trump Plans Executive Action & Guantanamo Flights Begin | Afternoon Update | 2.4.25
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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| 0:18.7 | I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, February 4th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update. |
| 0:26.8 | Two of President Trump's most controversial cabinet picks are moving closer to being confirmed. DailyWire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips has more. |
| 0:35.5 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has passed the Senate Finance Committee hurdle by a narrow 1413 |
| 0:40.1 | party line vote. He now heads to a floor vote in his bid to head up the Department of Health |
| 0:44.3 | and Human Services. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard has made it through the Senate Intelligence Committee |
| 0:48.6 | and her nomination for Director of National Intelligence, despite having a tough confirmation |
| 0:53.0 | hearing. She made it through with a narrow 98 party line vote. |
| 0:56.9 | Ahead of the vote, Gabbard secured critical GOP support from Senators Collins, Lankford, |
| 1:01.0 | and Young, who had been on the fence. |
| 1:03.3 | During her hearing, she defended her record, pledging stronger oversight on intelligence leaks. |
| 1:07.9 | We'll have more on the confirmations tomorrow morning. |
| 1:10.6 | President Trump is considering using his executive powers to gut the Department of Education. |
| 1:15.7 | He then plans to push Congress to abolish the agency entirely. |
| 1:20.0 | Daily Wire Deputy Managing editor Tim Rice has the details. |
| 1:24.0 | The order would slash most of the department's functions, reassign some programs to other federal agencies, and retain certain functions required by law. |
| 1:32.3 | The move aligns with Trump's campaign promise to return control of education to the states and stop the agency from promoting what he calls the indoctrination of American youth. |
| 1:42.3 | The plan may be delayed until after Education Secretary-designate Linda |
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