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The Great America Show

Wednesday Headlines: February 12, 2025

The Great America Show

Fawcett Strategies

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories you need to know about, including what's next for Elon Musk and DOGE.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. I'm John Foster with this Great America Show Midday Update for Wednesday, February 12th.

0:05.0

Happy Wednesday, everybody. We're halfway through the weekend. It's almost the weekend. President

0:10.4

Trump and Elon Musk hosting a press conference in the Oval Office last night. Elon Musk laying out

0:16.0

one of Doge's latest findings and their latest investigations they're going to start looking into.

0:24.0

Musk is reportedly looking into federal employees who managed to accrue, quote,

0:29.3

tens of millions of dollars in net worth while being government employees.

0:34.2

How is that possible, you may ask?

0:36.0

Well, we're wondering the same thing.

0:37.4

Take a listen.

0:39.1

Could you mention some of the things that your team has found some of the crazy numbers,

0:44.7

including the woman that walked away with about 30 million, etc?

0:49.3

Well, we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy

0:59.2

who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow I managed

1:04.0

to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is,

1:10.6

you know, what happened at USAID.

1:12.0

We're just curious as to where it came from.

1:14.2

Maybe they're very good investing, which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps.

1:19.8

But just, there seems to be mysteriously they get wealthy.

1:23.8

Why?

1:24.9

Where do they come from?

1:27.2

And I think the reality is that they're getting

1:29.3

wealthier to tax-payer expense. That's the honest truth of it. So, you know, we're looking at, say,

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