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🗓️ 2 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, the White House unveiled a budget proposal today that would cut billions from non-defense programs across the government for the next fiscal year. |
0:08.7 | Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez has more on the president's wish list as part of our coverage this week of the first 100 days of this Trump administration. |
0:19.2 | Omna, the president wants to slash |
0:21.1 | $163 billion in federal spending, to be exact. |
0:25.1 | The dramatic cuts would hit health, |
0:27.0 | housing, education, and climate programs. |
0:29.7 | President Trump, with the help of Elon Musk, |
0:31.5 | has already frozen funding for many of these programs |
0:34.0 | without congressional approval. |
0:35.8 | Musk's team, known as Doge, |
0:37.3 | has led the firings of tens of thousands of federal workers, |
0:40.7 | and they've hollowed out nearly a dozen agencies in their efforts to dismantle parts of the federal government. |
0:46.1 | For more on all of this, I'm joined by Jessica Reedle. |
0:48.9 | She's a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. |
0:51.4 | She was also chief economist for former Republican Senator Rob Portman. |
0:55.3 | Jessica, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you very much. |
0:59.8 | So first on the news of the day, presidential budgets don't have the force of law, so they're |
1:04.5 | often considered a guide to the president's governing philosophy. Reading through Trump's |
1:10.0 | budget, what do you think is the governing philosophy here? |
1:13.9 | Well, the governing philosophy is ultimately what they call a war on woke. |
1:19.9 | The word woke appears 12 times, DEI appears 31 times, gender appears 14 times. Generally, there's a lot of spending |
1:30.5 | cuts that are based on a very exaggerated definition of woke. The largest cuts that I've seen |
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