DOGE’s HHS Overhaul & Maine Sports Standoff | 3.28.25
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How much has DOGE saved taxpayers?
Doge continues its cost-cutting mandate, saying they've already saved $100 billion. That's $800 per taxpayer.
The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government, it is astonishing. It's mind-blowing.
I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe.
It's Friday, March 28th, and this is Morning Wire.
Trump takes presidential action against the elite law firms that targeted him.
What actions has Trump taken against law firms?
We've taken action against a number of law firms that have participated either in the weaponization of government, the weaponization of the legal system for political ends, or have otherwise engaged in illegal or inappropriate activities.
Why is Maine's governor defying Trump's order?
And voters in Maine overwhelmingly support taking men out of women's sports. But the state's governor is still defying Trump's order.
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What are the recent changes at HHS?
The Trump administration and Doge are continuing their efforts to slash federal spending, with major cuts to the health department announced Thursday.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here with the latest. Hey, Cabot. So it's full steam ahead for Doge. This time it's RFK making some very significant cuts. What are we seeing from him and his department?
Well, we just saw one of the largest cuts to the federal workforce since Donald Trump took office. This time it was the Department of Health and Human Services on the chopping block. Secretary Kennedy announced Thursday morning that they'd be cutting 10,000 jobs from across the department. When all is said and done, that'll be 20% of the entire HHS workforce. Among others, the FDA will let go 3,500 employees, though Kennedy did stress that the cuts would not impact inspectors looking at drugs, medical devices, and food. The NIH will lose 1,200 workers, the CMS 300, and the CDC 2,400. The list goes on. The overhaul will also eliminate 13 of the department's 28 existing divisions and create a new administration for a healthy America.
According to Kennedy, the cuts will save taxpayer money and force health agencies to become more efficient.
When I arrived, I found that over half of our employees don't even come to work. As part of President Trump's Doge Workforce Reduction Initiative, we're going to streamline HHS and make our agency more efficient and more effective. We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions by merging them into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHAH.
The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles spoke with Kennedy at the White House yesterday. Here he is with an example of just some of the wasteful spending he says he's encountered within the agency.
Putting the money and the personnel in there is not alone going to solve the problem. And what I found when I came to HHS was really a sprawling bureaucracy. We have over 100 communications departments.
We should have won. And it's worth noting, according to Kennedy, a lack of funding is not the problem with American public health. He noted how America ranks last in health among 40 developed nations, but actually spends two to three times more per capita on each patient. He went on to describe how certain agencies were selling patients medical data for profit, colluding with the very drug companies they were supposed to be regulating, and even withholding information from the secretary himself in an effort to slow his efforts at reform.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How much has DOGE saved taxpayers?
0:03–0:31
2
What actions has Trump taken against law firms?
0:31–0:44
3
Why is Maine's governor defying Trump's order?
0:44–1:45
4
What are the recent changes at HHS?
1:45–6:54
5
How is DOGE eliminating federal waste?
6:54–7:21
6
What are the benefits of subscribing to Good Ranchers?
7:21–8:28
7
How are Maine universities changing their transgender policies?
8:28–14:27
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