Trump and Musk are threatening, firing, and enacting racist policies against the federal workforce

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Credit card interest rates have shot up over the last 10 years, and an increasing part

of our paychecks are just paying credit card companies.

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All right, so we have a couple topics today, Richard, that we want to talk about.

And one of them is about these huge federal job cuts that are happening.

I want to read to you from a really useful piece in the Wall Street Journal that outlines where,

or really just more about the federal government workforce.

I mean, Trump and Musk are pretending in an extension of this sort of, quote, unquote,

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