Trump’s Cabinet Meeting, House Hearing Uncovers ‘Dark Money,’ Illegal Aliens Told to Self-Deport | Feb. 26

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: President Donald Trump holds his first Cabinet meeting. The House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held a hearing today. The heating was titled, “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World.” Trump’s Department of Homeland Security says it will use “every available tool to compel illegal aliens to self-deport.” Also on today’s show: The Trump administration issues a memo directing federal agencies to prepare for large-scale layoffs. Rep. Byron Donalds has announced his candidacy for Florida governor in 2026. President Trump announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Washington on Friday. Links From Today’s Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zds7WnHiUP0 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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0:14.0	President Trump met with his cabinet today, and top of the agenda was discussions over cutting government waste.
0:21.8	I'm Virginia Allen, and this is The Daily Signal, Top News, for Wednesday, February 26th.
0:31.4	President Donald Trump held his first cabinet meeting today.
0:38.2	The cabinet meeting began with a prayer before the department heads began their discussion.
0:43.7	During the meeting, Trump emphasized his administration's commitment to fiscal responsibility
0:48.3	and his desire to get inflation down.
0:52.0	We're fighting every day to get the prices down.
0:55.9	The inflation is stopping slowly, but part of the reason it's stopping,
1:00.6	is because of high interest rates and other problems that we inherited.
1:05.1	Elon Musk was also at the cabinet meeting.
1:07.9	Musk is, of course, leading the Trump administration's effort to cut waste
1:11.8	in the federal government. Musk discussed a plan to reduce the federal budget by $1 trillion
1:17.6	just within the first year of Trump's presidency, and he warned that these cuts are not optional.
1:24.9	We simply cannot sustain a country two trillion dollar deficits. The interest rates,
1:31.0	just the interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending. We spend a lot
1:37.6	on the Defense Department. But we're spending like over a trillion dollars on interest. If this
1:42.5	continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt.
1:46.2	It's not an optional thing. It is an essential thing. That's the reason I'm here.
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