DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
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What fraud and waste is being targeted in the federal government?
President Trump and Elon Musk are rooting out fraud, waste, and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars in the federal government.
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What else is on the chopping block?
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, February 6th, and this is Morning Wire. Reactions to Trump's bold proposal to take control of Gaza have been swift and extreme.
It's going to bring the entire region to come with their own solutions.
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The Trump administration, with much help from Doge leader Elon Musk, is continuing to rapidly overhaul the federal government. They've also uncovered millions of taxpayer dollars going to legacy media outlets, raising more questions about political bias in reporting.
Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo. Hey, Amanda. So Trump campaigned on streamlining the federal government and cutting waste. What's the latest here?
So more recently, Trump has offered a buyout to the entire CIA workforce. That's both to downsize the government and to more align the agency with Trump's priorities. This follows his broader offer to give millions of full-time federal workers full pay and benefits for eight months if they choose to resign by February 6th, so today. The goal there is to save American taxpayers an estimated $100 billion and, frankly, to get rid of employees who don't want to be there or who refuse to return to in-person work, which Trump has already mandated. Trump administration officials are also reportedly drafting an executive order to effectively dismantle the Department of Education. The Education Department currently employs more than 4,000 people and has an annual budget of $79 billion.
And then there's USAID, which is effectively shuttered at this point, correct?
Yeah, that's right. That had an annual budget of around $40 billion and currently has around 10,000 employees. Nearly all the staff at the agency will be placed on leave by Friday night, so by tomorrow night, and all overseas missions have been ordered to shut down. Very dramatic action there and lots of money on the line. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that the goal was to reform USAID, but he said they were met with a lot of resistance from the agency and effectively forced to take drastic action.
They're completely uncooperative. So we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control.
The White House has released an initial list of wasteful projects USAID has funded, including giving millions of taxpayer dollars to a group involved with research at the Wuhan lab, hundreds of thousands to a nonprofit linked to terror groups, 2 million to LGBT activism in Guatemala, and 1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia. Elon Musk has called USAID a criminal organization, and he boasted on Monday that he and his team, quote, spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.
What are Trump's proposals for Gaza?
Pretty dramatic middle image there. Now, as Georgia mentioned at the top, the legacy media is entangled in this USAID controversy. What have we learned on that front?
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