Ep. 2189 - The Secret SUCCESS of DOGE
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What is the significance of DOGE in government spending?
Well, folks, a lot of news to get to, as always. But first, time is almost up. We are in the final hours of our Daily Wire 100-hour flash sale, celebrating President Trump's first 100 days back in office. This is your last chance to get the best deal of the season on a Daily Wire Plus annual membership. Trump is trying to rebuild the country. We're trying to rebuild the culture. Join the fight before the clock hits zero. Go to dailywire.com. Use code DW100 to join right now. Well, We have been hearing for a very long time that Doge, that would of course be the Department of Governmental Efficiency under the tutelage of Elon Musk, has been a giant fail. We've been hearing this from the legacy media who have been saying that all the cuts are basically fake, that nothing is happening, that it's chaos, that it's wrecking the country. No one social security check has been stopped. The Medicaid checks are still going out. The Medicare checks are still going out. The government, unfortunately to my mind, is still running much as before.
However, much spending has in fact really been stopped. There's been an open question as to how much spending will be permanently stopped. How much can be temporarily frozen versus actually just cut? Will firing these employees actually stick? But Democrats are caterwauling because as it turns out, Doge actually has been quite effective in stopping an enormous amount of spending. Is it trillions of dollars? No. Is it hundreds of billions of dollars? The answer apparently is yes. According to Reuters, President Trump's administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion of congressionally approved funding, the top Democrats on the U.S. Congress's Appropriation Committee said on Tuesday.
How much funding has been withheld by the Trump administration?
The frozen allotment spanned the federal government, according to the first estimate of potential impoundments in the project, led by Senator Patty Murray of Washington and Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut. You'll remember Rosa DeLauro, she of the purple hair. Almost $42 billion was frozen or canceled for the State Department. Of course, that includes the freeze on support for USAID, along with another $62 billion plus in competitive grant funding for the Transportation Department, according to the estimate. Democrats also are detailing $943 million frozen for the Head Start early education program. By the way, Head Start is one of the great fails in federal history. Head Start, the idea that you're
radically increasing the chances for young children if they go to a federally funded, federally run preschool program. The data on Head Start has been pretty solid for a long time, showing effectively no difference between kids who go to Head Start and kids who do not. There's also been some $10 billion frozen and canceled for the National Resources Conservation Service as well. Democrats, of course, are very angry about all of this. Listen, all of the spending is going to have to be then... put permanently into the no-spend category by Congress. They can do so with a simple 50-vote majority in the Senate. That is the path presumably Congress is going to have to take. And we are now moving in this administration from the sort of executive order side of the administration, what President Trump can do unilaterally to Congress. The focus needs to move to Congress because the truth is that President Trump, Doge, they can temporarily freeze a lot of this funding. But unless it's rescinded by Congress, it will go right back into place after a certain period of time.
This is the reason why Democrats are freaking out about all of this. They're worried that Republicans are in fact going to start passing rescission bills that would make permanent many of the freezes and turn the freeze into a cut. According to the Reuters News Service, the administration is citing the Doge efficiency movement and the undoing of the federal government's DEI initiatives as reason for blocking congressionally approved funding. The question is, how much the executive branch can actually block that funding under the 1974 Impoundment Control Act. Usually the president has to tweak levels by proposing cuts.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the significance of DOGE in government spending?
0:00–1:30
2
How much funding has been withheld by the Trump administration?
1:30–7:26
3
What are the implications of the proposed tax bill?
7:26–16:50
4
How is the trade war affecting American businesses?
16:50–27:33
5
Why is China unaffected by the trade war?
27:33
6
What was Amazon's controversial proposal regarding tariffs?
17:33–24:40
7
What is the potential impact of tariffs on the auto industry?
24:40–33:46
8
What are the future expectations for trade deals?
33:46–43:21
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