Way Too Early 2/7/25
Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
MS NOW, Ali Vitali
4.5 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They gave to all this out of, out of U.S. aid, right? U.S. AID. |
| 0:12.2 | It came out. Hundreds of just tremendous amounts of money had nothing to do with anything. |
| 0:19.4 | This is a terrible thing that was experienced but we're |
| 0:22.7 | catching them left and right we're catching them we're catching them to a point where they don't know |
| 0:28.0 | what the heck is going on they can't believe they're getting caught and I have great respect for |
| 0:33.5 | the people that are doing it Elon Musk is helping us on it. And he's pretty good. |
| 0:39.1 | He's pretty good. |
| 0:40.5 | He's pretty good at it. |
| 0:42.8 | That was President Trump yesterday, riffing about USAID during the National Prayer Breakfast. |
| 0:48.3 | It comes as his administration plans to make massive cuts to the agency's workforce. |
| 0:52.5 | The question now is, will the layoffs essentially |
| 0:55.1 | end life-saving aid to people around the world? And you heard the president praise Elon Musk moments |
| 1:00.8 | ago, but there's new reporting that the world's richest man is creating a rift inside Trump's inner |
| 1:05.7 | circle. Surprise, surprise, but the question is, how long can the Trump-Musk relationship actually last? |
| 1:12.3 | Plus, the administration's buyout offer to federal employees is now on hold after it was |
| 1:17.4 | blocked by a federal judge. |
| 1:19.0 | The question is, what's next for the unprecedented plan to overhaul the federal government? |
| 1:24.3 | It's way too early for this. |
| 1:35.1 | Thank you. government. It's way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that's getting ready for the big game in the big easy and wishing that they were there. |
| 1:39.6 | I'm Ali Vitale on this Friday, February 7th, and we'll start with the news. |
| 1:44.0 | The Trump administration plans to cut the number of USAID workers from more than 10,000 to just 290, |
| 1:51.3 | two sources familiar with the plans say. The small remaining staff includes employees who specialize in health and humanitarian assistance. |
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