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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | February 17th, 2025: European Official Breaks Down In Tears Over Vance Speech & DOGE Comes For The Pentagon's Budget
17 Feb 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, we’ll discuss the fallout from Vice President JD Vance’s fiery address at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, where he chastised European leaders over their attempts to stifle democratic norms, leaving one official in tears. Later in the show, the Trump administration takes aim at Pentagon spending, with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency looking to trim eight percent from next year’s defense budget, an amount exceeding $800 billion. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Ramp: Get $250 when you join Ramp. Go to ramp.com/PDB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Es ist Montag, der 17. Februar. Willkommen bei der PDB-Afternoon Bulletin. Ich bin Mike Baker, eure Augen und Ohren auf der Welt-Stage. Okay, lasst uns kurz sprechen. Zuerst sprechen wir über den Fallout von Vizepräsidenten J.D. Vance's Rede an der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz am Freitag.
wo er europäische Leiter über ihre Versuche, demokratische Normen zu steifeln, verurteilen, leaving some officials in tears. Later in the show, the Trump administration takes aim at Pentagon spending, with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency looking to trim some 8% from next year's defense budget, which is a budget that exceeds currently over $800 billion.
But first, today's afternoon spotlight. Wir beginnen in Europa, wo Vizepräsident J.D. Vance eine überraschende, um es nicht zu sagen, Rede an der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz am Freitag eröffnet hat, die Kontinenten in Richtung politischer Repression fliegt und einige europäische Offiziere in Träumen.
Vance zeigte in den Ländern in Europa, die freie Sprache kriminalisieren und populistische Verteidiger marginalisieren. Er bestätigte, dass die wachsende Bedeutung von Zensur sowie die Schrecken der politischen Opposition, argumentierbar eine größere Bedrohung der Stabilität Europas sind als Russland oder irgendein anderer Außenseiter.
In his address, delivered in front of some of Europe's top political brass, Vance accused European leaders of abandoning free speech, encouraging unchecked migration and generally ignoring the will of their voters. He warned of what he dubbed, quote, the threat from within and of, quote, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values.
Vance sagte, Quote, I can tell you plainly, there can be no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions and the conscience that guide your very own people. Europe faces many challenges, he said, but the crisis this continent faces right now is one of your own making, end quote.
Now, the Vice President cited the behavior of authorities in countries like the UK, Germany and Sweden, where political groups and voters outside the mainstream, particularly conservatives, have been increasingly subjected to investigations, arrests and even prosecution for protesting things like mass migration, the war in Ukraine or reproductive rights.
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