1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:34,439 your support. Literally moments ago, the Executive Office of the President, 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,840 Office of Management and Budget sent out another memorandum M 11 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:44,679 DASH twenty five DASH fourteen. Subject line Recision of m 12 00:00:44,799 --> 00:00:52,399 DASH twenty five DASH thirteen states thusly one sentence omb 13 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,640 Memorandum M twenty five thirteen is rescinded. Oh and then 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,759 there's a second sentence. If you have questions about implementing 15 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:05,439 the presidence executive orders, please contact your agency general counsel. Okay, 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,400 I suspect there's gonna be ano another memo coming on 17 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,920 this because the first one just covered too much for them, 18 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,359 I think, to just abandon what the intent was. So 19 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:23,159 let's just pretend the recision hasn't occurred yet. Okay, because 20 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,000 I did all the show prep people. I did all 21 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,159 of this work, I read all of this stuff. I'm 22 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,640 not gonna let it go to waste. I should have 23 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,200 done it in the first hour. I should have just 24 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,040 stuck to my plan, done it in the first hour, 25 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,400 and then the recision could have come and it wouldn't 26 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:41,640 have mattered. But then we wouldn't have heard Bernie Sanders 27 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,599 demanding RFK Junior disavowal Onesie. So yah, life is trade offs, 28 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:56,000 you know. Alrighty, so let us start with Yeah, we'll 29 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,480 start with the CNN story. I have some well actually, 30 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,239 you know it. No, I'm gonna do what I set 31 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:03,640 out to do. I'm going to start with the freak 32 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,359 out because before we find out what exactly is and 33 00:02:07,519 --> 00:02:10,800 is not in this memorandum that got everybody's dander up, 34 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,400 prompting lawsuits from Baby Jesus and his fellow attorneys general 35 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:21,280 Democrat attorneys general from around the around the country. Baby 36 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,560 Jesus is Jeff Jackson. He got that name from his 37 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,520 fellow Democrats while he was a state legislator, but they 38 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,520 didn't really call him that anymore because now he's actually 39 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,400 done stuff. That's why they called him it was that 40 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:37,879 he was like he was held up as this you know, 41 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,680 godlike figure even though he didn't do anything yet. He 42 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,879 was like, yes, he like he's godlike and all, but 43 00:02:47,719 --> 00:02:51,159 he's just the baby, so he hasn't done anything yet. Anyway, 44 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:55,400 here is here was some of the freak out. This 45 00:02:55,479 --> 00:03:01,199 came from our governor Josh Stein, our Attorney Uner Jeff Jackson, 46 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:07,319 both Democrats, and the North Carolina Department of Health and 47 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:13,120 Human Services. So the memo comes out and it says, hey, 48 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:19,080 we're going to suspend the funding for a whole bunch 49 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,719 of federal grants so we can, you know, figure out 50 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:24,680 what's going on with all of them. And we want you, guys, 51 00:03:24,759 --> 00:03:28,759 all of these agencies that are distributing these grants to 52 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,439 review to make sure that they are in line with 53 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:34,719 the president's executive orders. And then they list the executive 54 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:36,280 orders and I'm going to go deeper on that, but 55 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,439 just that's sort of the setting of the table here. 56 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,080 So Democrats see this and of course like now, this 57 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:50,120 is an existential threat to their permanent managerial class because 58 00:03:50,159 --> 00:03:53,680 the people who go to work for the government to 59 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:59,000 hand out these these grants, generally speaking, are Democrats and 60 00:03:59,039 --> 00:04:05,280 the NGOs non governmental organizations that literally survive off of 61 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:13,199 the federal money. They are run generally by Democrats, and 62 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:18,199 this is an existential threat because if the government is 63 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,040 now going to suspend these grants and you have built 64 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:25,879 your entire business model or nonprofit model on funding from 65 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,319 gov CO, you need the funding from GOVC to continue, 66 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,959 and so any threat to that is a threat to you. So, 67 00:04:33,519 --> 00:04:39,759 responding to their donors and voters, Democrats pounced, dare I say, 68 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:44,879 seized on the issue, sprung into action, and began the 69 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,839 fear mongering. Everyone is going to die, Okay, I mean 70 00:04:49,879 --> 00:04:53,079 it is like everything. It's yep. You're going to have 71 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,480 you know, Grandma thrown off the cliff. You're going to 72 00:04:56,519 --> 00:04:59,160 have kids not getting getting educated. You're going to have 73 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,360 kids starving to death, old people starving to death, people 74 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:06,160 dying in the streets, homeless people not getting homes, like 75 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,160 all sorts of the everything in the parade of horribles. Okay, 76 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,800 Josh Stein quote, Like many of you, I am concerned 77 00:05:15,079 --> 00:05:20,079 that freezing federal funding will hurt North Carolinians, especially those 78 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:25,120 recovering in western North Carolina. My office is currently reviewing 79 00:05:25,399 --> 00:05:29,959 and seeking clarity about what Omb's order to freeze federal 80 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,360 grants means for our state. We are also working with 81 00:05:33,439 --> 00:05:36,480 federal partners to ensure people in western North Carolina get 82 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,879 the support that they need. By the way, former Speaker 83 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,199 of the House now Congressman Tim Moore, he put out 84 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,160 a statement and it says, the White House has assured 85 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:50,360 me that disaster relief and direct assistance to families through 86 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:56,519 FEMA will continue uninterrupted. So just be aware that is 87 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,399 not impacted. There are a lot of things actually that 88 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:04,079 are not impacted that had Democrats, I guess read the 89 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:09,680 memo they would see are not impacted. But causing the 90 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,519 confusion is the play This is part of the playbook. 91 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:20,040 This is the exact same playbook as the quote don't 92 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:22,519 say gay Bill and all of it. Where there was 93 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,120 just another example of it the other day where with 94 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:31,240 the DEI prohibition that Trump put in place for federal 95 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,040 agencies and Pete haig Seth endorsed in the Department of Defense, 96 00:06:35,079 --> 00:06:37,199 and they were like, well, now we can't teach about 97 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:45,160 the Tuskegee Airmen or Tuskegee Airmen, And hag Seth was like, 98 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,399 don't be ridiculous, that's stupid. Yes, of course we can 99 00:06:48,439 --> 00:06:52,600 still teach about that. It's a piece of history. And 100 00:06:53,639 --> 00:06:59,360 that's the same playbook, which is take a law that 101 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:07,759 has popular support, twist it and make the most absurd 102 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:12,720 enforcement action that you can find, and then say that's 103 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,879 because of this law, when in fact, it was your 104 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:22,480 decision to do that. So in the Don't Say Gay book, 105 00:07:22,519 --> 00:07:26,759 ban stuff out of Florida, which did not ban any books. 106 00:07:26,959 --> 00:07:30,639 If you wanted to read you know, Charlie has seventeen Dads, 107 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:33,639 you could read that book. You could buy the book right, 108 00:07:33,639 --> 00:07:35,319 you can go to a bookstore and see it. In fact, 109 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:38,800 if you go to bookstores, that's generally what they offer, 110 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,240 like front End Center all the time, like this, there's 111 00:07:42,279 --> 00:07:44,680 a heavy promotion of this kind of content. You can 112 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,800 find it, you can order it online, they'll deliver to 113 00:07:46,839 --> 00:07:49,240 your house. All that. What the law was saying is 114 00:07:49,279 --> 00:07:52,480 that you don't get to talk to kids about sex 115 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,839 when they are under a certain age. In other words, 116 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:01,319 age appropriate restrictions, which in our society we have had 117 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,279 my entire life. We still have it. In movies, if 118 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:08,560 you are under a certain age, you don't get to 119 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,920 go to any movie you want to see. You have 120 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,199 to have a parent with you. You have to be 121 00:08:15,319 --> 00:08:19,000 over the age of what's seventeen or something like. We 122 00:08:19,079 --> 00:08:24,000 have long recognized that certain content is not appropriate for 123 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:30,160 people under certain ages, right, Like TikTok videos not appropriate 124 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:33,320 for anybody over the age of like, you know, fifty. Like, 125 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:38,799 that's the same thing. So that's what the state of 126 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,919 Florida look to do with it with the public school system. 127 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:48,159 Mind you, the system that the government runs. The government 128 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,960 runs that airgo gov Code gets to set those rules. 129 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,159 Much like the funding of these grants for your nonprofits. 130 00:08:56,759 --> 00:08:59,720 I have said this for decades, okay, well, like to 131 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,639 when you get hooked whether it's at a personal level 132 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,759 with government pro like a federal assistance programs and that 133 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:10,360 sort of thing, or state assistance, when you get hooked 134 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,919 on those, or if you are a business or nonprofit 135 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,759 or something and you get hooked onto government grants, right, 136 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:23,799 it makes you lazy. It makes you less likely to 137 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:26,799 go out and do things and respond to market signals 138 00:09:26,799 --> 00:09:29,399 and stuff because you have this pad. I learned this 139 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,080 when I actually worked for an NPR affiliate here in town. 140 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:36,679 I was in the membership department, so I knew what 141 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:42,200 was going on with the donations going up, you know, 142 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,440 everybody said, Oh my gosh, Ronald Reagan, he cut the 143 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,679 funding for NPR and all this stuff, and it's going 144 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:49,440 to go away. Public broadcasting is going to die without this. No, 145 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,879 it's not people supported it. They donated money to it. 146 00:09:55,759 --> 00:09:59,679 That's what happens. If people want the content. Content is king. 147 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,080 If it's good content, which we that is debatable, but 148 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,159 there's a market for it, people will buy it. People 149 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,919 will support it, and if it does, if people don't, 150 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,759 that is not an indication that government needs to step 151 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:15,519 in seize money from somebody and give it to you, 152 00:10:15,799 --> 00:10:20,639 even though you're making content nobody wants. That's the point, right, 153 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,480 that's the point. All right. So the memo comes out. 154 00:10:25,639 --> 00:10:28,399 Josh Stein, Oh my gosh, this is terrible. Jeff Jackson, 155 00:10:28,519 --> 00:10:31,000 he says, oh my gosh, this is terrible. The sudden 156 00:10:31,039 --> 00:10:33,799 freeze in federal funding is so sweeping that it could 157 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,600 cause widespread and immediate harm across our state. Delaying disaster recovery, no, 158 00:10:40,799 --> 00:10:46,799 undercutting law enforcement, No, affecting children and veterans. No, it 159 00:10:46,919 --> 00:10:50,200 violates constitutional power over federal spending. And I'm taking legal 160 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,679 action to stop it. Oh fantastic. So we're gonna pay 161 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,120 to sue the federal government basically ourselves. That's awesome, thank you, 162 00:10:56,159 --> 00:11:00,360 baby Jesus, we appreciate that. And then the Apartment of 163 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,480 Health and Human Services says for a period of time 164 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,279 today and this is what sent the shockwaves. NC Medicaid 165 00:11:06,639 --> 00:11:11,559 was not able to access the Payment Management Services portal, 166 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,240 but is now able to get into the system. Now 167 00:11:14,279 --> 00:11:16,320 that there is access to the portal, we are confirming 168 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,720 that requested funding will be received. No impact to beneficiaries. 169 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:22,799 So they went around for the last like twenty four 170 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,320 hours screaming that the Medicaid portal is shut down and 171 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,919 now people won't be able to get reimbursements submitted so 172 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,159 they can get paid for their healthcare services they are providing. 173 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,840 We don't know why that portal went down. We don't 174 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,679 know did somebody, did somebody flip a switch. Did it 175 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,159 get overwhelmed with traffic when everybody was like, oh my gosh, 176 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,759 does this mean I can't submit a payment? And then 177 00:11:44,799 --> 00:11:47,000 everybody logged on at the same time and crash the service. 178 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:50,120 I don't know. Nobody knows but to the left and 179 00:11:50,159 --> 00:11:53,720 the media. But I repeat myself, this was a clear 180 00:11:53,799 --> 00:11:58,039 signal that Medicaid shut it down because Trump told them to. 181 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,960 Here's an idea. Could it be just like we saw 182 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,559 with the book band quote unquote down in Florida and 183 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:09,399 the ban on teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen. Could it 184 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,639 be that some leftist bureaucrat said, well, if that's where 185 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,399 he's going to write it, I'm gonna go ahead and 186 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,639 shut it down. See how they like it. Or maybe 187 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,759 like the closing of the parks, like putting up like 188 00:12:19,879 --> 00:12:22,720 big tarps over monuments so you can't look at them 189 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,080 from the street during the shutdown. 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I find the Federal 216 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:06,559 funding free memo. I get the sense that it is 217 00:14:07,159 --> 00:14:11,240 in part, not totally, but maybe, but I think it 218 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:14,399 is at least in part due to some recent news 219 00:14:14,399 --> 00:14:19,679 events James O'Keeffe formerly of Project Veritas now O'Keeffe Media Group, 220 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:22,759 and he did he did another one of these undercover 221 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:28,639 stings on some federal worker who talked about how they 222 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:32,559 were just shoveling money out the door before Biden's exit, 223 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:36,279 right in the last week or two before they were 224 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:39,200 turning over power. They were just like getting all the 225 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:45,320 green funding grants out the door. And then there was 226 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,000 this the other day I saw from Liz McDonald over 227 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:54,720 at Fox News, the new controversy of Biden's Energy Secretary 228 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,039 Jennifer Granholm at the last minute on Thursday. This was 229 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,159 right before the inauguration, sending more than fifteen billion dollars 230 00:15:02,159 --> 00:15:05,200 in Biden's green energy loans to utilities in her home 231 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:08,799 state of Michigan. It's a major wake up call to 232 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,600 the significant taxpayer abuses in the Biden White House. Many 233 00:15:12,639 --> 00:15:16,960 of them are her donors to her gubernatorial campaign. Graham 234 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:23,559 Hoolm approved Grand Sorry, Grand Home approved a massive twenty 235 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:29,240 two point nine billion dollars in these eleventh hour green loans, 236 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,879 sending nearly seventy percent of them to Michigan. That's according 237 00:15:33,919 --> 00:15:36,480 to The Beacon. Maybe that's the free beacon, but I'm 238 00:15:36,519 --> 00:15:40,879 not sure either feathering her political nest or her future 239 00:15:40,879 --> 00:15:44,440 in the private sector. Democrats hammered President Trump when he 240 00:15:44,519 --> 00:15:48,159 campaigned on draining the swamp in twenty sixteen. Nancy Pelosi 241 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:50,679 and Democrats pushed back hard to impeach him on one 242 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,000 of eighty five targets that they launched. This also defies 243 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:58,080 the Energy Department Inspector General who told Grandholm to stop 244 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:02,200 the conflicts of interest in these for four hundred billion 245 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:06,320 dollars slush funds. This highlights to a government abuse of power, 246 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,679 sending hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money out 247 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,559 the door that gets recycled as campaign donations. This is 248 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,720 one of the most underreported stories out there whose back 249 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:20,480 is getting scratched, and for how much. Limball used to 250 00:16:20,519 --> 00:16:22,159 talk about this all the time. It's why I referred 251 00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:25,519 to it as a money laundering operation. Right, you seize 252 00:16:25,559 --> 00:16:27,960 through the power and force of gov CO. You take 253 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,120 the money from people's paycheck right, and sales taxes and 254 00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:35,559 the like, but mainly income taxes. You take that money, right, 255 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,080 then you wash it through the administrative state. The employees 256 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,440 there get a cut, then the money gets pushed out 257 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:44,960 the door in the form of grants to these nonprofit 258 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,480 groups that then make campaign contributions to Democrats. So the 259 00:16:49,519 --> 00:16:52,480 original source of the money is from all taxpayers who 260 00:16:52,559 --> 00:16:56,720 may not agree with Democrats. But that's that's the operation, 261 00:16:57,039 --> 00:17:00,639 and that's what the Inspector General warned Granholm again doing 262 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,799 all right, I hope you had a happy holiday season. 263 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,359 But tell me if something like this happened at your house. 264 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,279 Your family and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are 265 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:12,839 in the living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and 266 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,680 then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? 267 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,359 Did you ever get them transferred? And then the room 268 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,240 gets all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh, 269 00:17:23,279 --> 00:17:25,319 you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just 270 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,319 having gotten around to it. 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So do what I did. 280 00:17:58,079 --> 00:18:01,920 Trust the experts at Creative Video, conveniently located in mint 281 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,799 Hill right off I four eighty five and online at 282 00:18:04,839 --> 00:18:08,119 create a video dot com. You know me, I am 283 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,480 a giver, and so I read through the memo that 284 00:18:12,559 --> 00:18:16,440 came from the federal government on the funding freeze, so 285 00:18:16,519 --> 00:18:19,480 you don't have to, although now it's been rescinded, but 286 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:20,960 I think another one is going to be coming. But 287 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:25,559 what's amazing is the reaction to all of this from 288 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:28,039 the left. And part of it is, as I mentioned 289 00:18:28,079 --> 00:18:30,240 the other day, the shotgun aw campaign that Trump has 290 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:32,839 been employing. Right, They've had a lot of time to 291 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:34,680 think about what they want to do to write it 292 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:41,480 all up, and it's just a steady barrage of executive orders, announcements, 293 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,000 personnel changes, all of this stuff that the left is 294 00:18:45,079 --> 00:18:50,279 so scattered on where to direct their focus, and so 295 00:18:50,319 --> 00:18:54,720 they're vying with one another to try to get headlines 296 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,680 from a media that is also chasing the red dot 297 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,880 all over the room. You know. So here is what 298 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:06,720 the memo actually said in fiscal year I'm not going 299 00:19:06,759 --> 00:19:08,440 to read the whole thing because it's two pages, but 300 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,759 I'm going to give you the highlights here. Trust me, 301 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,000 these are the highlights. In fiscal year twenty twenty four, 302 00:19:14,519 --> 00:19:17,599 of the nearly ten trillion dollars that the federal government spent, 303 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,359 more than three trillion was federal financial assistance, such as 304 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:27,440 grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the executive 305 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:32,000 branch have a duty to align federal spending and action 306 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,440 with the will of the American people, as expressed through 307 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:44,400 presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing administration priorities, 308 00:19:44,599 --> 00:19:48,920 focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, 309 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:54,519 eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American 310 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:59,680 energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness and the weaponization of government, 311 00:20:00,279 --> 00:20:05,359 promoting efficiency in government, and making America healthy again. The 312 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:10,880 use of federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and 313 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:14,720 Green New Deal social engineering policies is a waste of 314 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:18,640 taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day to day 315 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:23,960 lives of those we serve. This memo requires federal agencies 316 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:31,799 to identify and review all federal financial assistants Bookmark one. 317 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,920 I'll come back to that. So all federal financial assistants 318 00:20:36,599 --> 00:20:42,759 programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. 319 00:20:43,599 --> 00:20:47,440 Footnote two. I think I said bookmarks a footnote, all right, 320 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:50,759 So when it talks about all federal financial assistants, it 321 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:54,279 has a footnote number one. And if you read that footnote, 322 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,440 I know I'm crazy. I read the footnote, but I 323 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,839 felt like it was important to see what they're talking about. 324 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,279 It says t CFR two hundred and one defines federal 325 00:21:04,279 --> 00:21:08,759 financial assistance to mean quote, assistance that recipients or sub 326 00:21:08,839 --> 00:21:13,319 recipients receive or administer in various forms. But this term 327 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:21,279 does not include assistance provided directly to individuals. For the 328 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:26,480 purposes of this memorandum, federal financial assistance includes number one, 329 00:21:26,559 --> 00:21:29,119 all forms of assistants listed in these other paragraphs of 330 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,200 the definition of the term, and assistance received or administered 331 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,599 by recipients of sub or sub recipients of any type, 332 00:21:35,599 --> 00:21:39,319 except for assistance received directly by individuals. That's how you 333 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,160 know that this is official law because it is ridiculously confusing. 334 00:21:44,559 --> 00:21:47,559 But the key here is that if it's going to 335 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,119 an individual, then it's not part of this Read the 336 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,400 freaking footnotes. And just in case that wasn't clear, footnote 337 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,680 number two, which came at the end of that sentence, says, 338 00:21:59,039 --> 00:22:03,519 nothing in this memo should be construed to impact Medicare 339 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:09,240 or Social Security benefits. But you left out Medicaid, and 340 00:22:09,279 --> 00:22:11,480 so that was why they freaked out over the Medicaid. 341 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,519 And then of course somebody shut down the portal, either 342 00:22:13,559 --> 00:22:20,119 accidentally or on purpose. And honestly, I like, maybe I'm 343 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,079 now cynical, but I'm guessing probably somebody shut it down. 344 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:28,000 Somebody did it on purpose to prove a point their sake. 345 00:22:28,079 --> 00:22:30,599 We can't do this, so nobody's gonna get paid off show. 346 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,480 Then boom, I guess they meant we have to shut 347 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:37,720 down Medicaid. To implement these orders, the memo goes on 348 00:22:37,759 --> 00:22:41,240 to say, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of 349 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:46,039 all of their federal financial assistance programs to identify programs 350 00:22:46,319 --> 00:22:52,240 and projects and activities that may be implicated by any 351 00:22:52,279 --> 00:22:56,119 of the President's executive orders. So that is a limit 352 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,799 on what it is they're telling you to review. So 353 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,920 why would medicaid fall under the list of things, which, 354 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,359 by the way, they list in all of that, they're 355 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,319 saying Trump issued a series of executive orders, and then 356 00:23:08,319 --> 00:23:11,519 they list all of them. So these are the eos 357 00:23:11,559 --> 00:23:14,480 that you're supposed to refer to. But if none of 358 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,519 those eos apply to what you're doing, like medicaid, that 359 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:22,720 it doesn't affect you. In the interim, to the extent 360 00:23:22,799 --> 00:23:27,680 permissible under applicable law, federal agencies must temporarily pause all 361 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,200 activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial 362 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:37,119 assistance and other relevant agency activities. Here again, that may 363 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,880 be implicated by the executive orders. Once again, there is 364 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,640 the limiting principle put in place right there in the language. 365 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,680 It says it right there, that may be implicated by 366 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:53,720 the executive orders. If you are doing federal funding, if 367 00:23:53,759 --> 00:23:56,319 you are in an agency, you're doing something and it 368 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,519 doesn't have anything to do with these other executive orders, 369 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,240 it doesn't apply to you. But nobody could read past 370 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:07,200 that because Orange Man bad, including but not limited to 371 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:13,640 financial assistance for Foreign aid NGOs, DEI, woke gender ideology, 372 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,359 and the Green New deal. They even spell it out 373 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,319 for you idiots. Here are the things we are talking about. 374 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,880 No more funds, no more grants flying out the door. 375 00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:31,960 If it's not lining up with this administration's priorities, we 376 00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:35,000 want you to identify it. We're suspending it, we're pausing it. 377 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,720 We're not saying no, we're saying put a pause. We 378 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:43,279 want an accounting. Oh my gosh, how dare you Orange 379 00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:47,200 man asking us to show you where the money's going, 380 00:24:49,039 --> 00:24:52,440 even before completing their comprehensive analysis. The memo goes on 381 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,839 to say federal agencies must immediately identify any legally mandated 382 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,640 actions or deadlines for assistance programs arising while the pause 383 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,799 remains in effect. So they're telling these agencies right there 384 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,759 in the memo says it right there. It says, if 385 00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:10,079 you've got funding that has to go out, identify it. 386 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,359 Federal agencies must report this information to the Office of 387 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,200 Management Budget along with an analysis of the requirement. So 388 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:20,839 if you have to spend the money, like say the 389 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,440 Medicaid portal has to stay open, then you would go 390 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,519 to OMB and be like, hey, we got to keep 391 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:32,240 this open. This is required, this is mandated. This doesn't 392 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:36,160 cover us and then omb could say, Okay, yeah, no problem, 393 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:42,960 Like this is willfully this is being willfully obtuse. It's 394 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,240 pretending that you don't know what the plain language means. 395 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,000 Uh Like, if you cannot understand what this memo is 396 00:25:52,039 --> 00:25:54,680 telling you to do, you do not belong on the 397 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,759 payroll of my agency. The White House then put out 398 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:11,519 an FAQ because Democrats sabotage and the media aided them 399 00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:13,960 and they're stupid like, so they had to put out 400 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,720 an FAQ specifically explaining what is already in the memo. 401 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:23,359 Any program that provides direct benefits to individuals is not 402 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,240 subject to the pause. Any payment required by law to 403 00:26:27,279 --> 00:26:31,000 be paid will be paid without interruption or delay. It 404 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,799 says it right in the memo. But in case you 405 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,480 can't read that, I'm going to write this, which you 406 00:26:36,559 --> 00:26:42,799 obviously won't read either, because narratives. That's the point, all right. 407 00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:44,680 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 408 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,440 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 409 00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:48,559 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 410 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:52,839 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 411 00:26:52,839 --> 00:26:55,519 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 412 00:26:55,559 --> 00:26:58,880 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and 413 00:26:59,079 --> 00:27:02,000 it's a website, and it combines news from around the 414 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,680 world in one place, so you can compare coverage and 415 00:27:04,839 --> 00:27:08,640 verify information. 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Your subscription then not 426 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,200 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 427 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,720 as they make the media landscape more transparent. We're going 428 00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:54,079 over this memo that went out to federal agencies, the 429 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,920 funding freeze, which about an hour ago the White House 430 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,079 rescinded it because Democrats and media, but I repeat myself, 431 00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:07,599 they were so confewsed by all of this, I don't 432 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,200 know what to make of anything. And then, of course 433 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,640 the Medicaid portal shuts down where the providers you know, 434 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,440 go to get reimbursements and stuff. I'd like to know 435 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,680 who did that. No, no, no, let me rephrase that. 436 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,039 I demand to know what happened there. And maybe it 437 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,960 was overloading of the system. Maybe it was just an outage, unrelated, coincidental, whatever. 438 00:28:31,079 --> 00:28:38,119 But I suspect if passed his prologue in any indication. 439 00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:42,519 I suspect somebody pulled the plug on it. Somebody flipped 440 00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:47,160 that switch. Somebody did it, just like the librarians took, 441 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:52,079 you know, books off the shelf, like classics. You know, 442 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,400 we got to take Huckleberry. Actually know they took that 443 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,759 one off the shelf before the book band we got 444 00:28:56,759 --> 00:28:58,599 to take to Kill a mocking Bird. Oh, you know, 445 00:28:58,759 --> 00:29:01,400 they took that one off the shelf for woke reasons. 446 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,559 So I think they're like, oh, I guess we got 447 00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:08,000 to take Doctor Seuss. Oh wait, no, that one too. Anyway, 448 00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:09,599 so they like they're like, oh, I guess we have 449 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,680 no books on our son. They would take all these pictures, 450 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,599 no books on the shelves. Look at that. Thanks a lot, Republicans. 451 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,279 You want everybody stupid like, no, no, no, The people 452 00:29:17,359 --> 00:29:21,079 runn K twelve education. They've obviously wanted to make everybody stupid. 453 00:29:21,319 --> 00:29:27,440 That's mission accomplished. Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Virginia, put 454 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,240 out a tweet he said, I spoke to senior officials 455 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,319 at the White House and confirmed the temporary pause by 456 00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:41,759 omb does not impact individual assistance and will not interrupt 457 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,680 disaster recovery efforts, school and childcare, funding, health care for 458 00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:51,599 seniors or low income families, funding for our roads, meals 459 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,440 and lunches, or any other or any of the other 460 00:29:55,799 --> 00:30:00,519 misinformation that has been spread. The partisan stunt to seminate 461 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:06,839 knowingly misleading information is dangerous, fearmongering, and completely wrong. President 462 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,359 Trump is doing what an executive should do at the 463 00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:11,680 beginning of a term, which is find out where the 464 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,880 money is and where it's going. Not unlike what we 465 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,799 did at the beginning of our term here in Virginia 466 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,799 when we identified one point four billion dollars in appropriated 467 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:28,480 but unspent taxpayer money. And that is exactly right. Pat 468 00:30:28,559 --> 00:30:31,319 McCrory talked about this. I remember when he became governor 469 00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:36,039 and he went and he started touring the various state 470 00:30:36,279 --> 00:30:38,880 agencies and he would go in there and he talked 471 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:44,680 about that there were employees who literally hid under desks 472 00:30:45,599 --> 00:30:49,720 because they did not want to be seen because of 473 00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:53,440 who they were getting a job that was like just 474 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,519 a job in name only. There were people on the 475 00:30:56,559 --> 00:31:01,400 payroll drawing a salary that didn't actually do anything. This 476 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,720 occurs all the time. This is not something specific to 477 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,039 the public sector. This happens in the private sector as well, 478 00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:12,039 but there are far fewer controls in the public sector. 479 00:31:14,079 --> 00:31:16,000 There is a fellow on Twitter. He goes by the 480 00:31:16,039 --> 00:31:18,799 name of Lafayette Lee, and he said the bureaucracy had 481 00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:23,119 already become a distinct political class with attitudes, interests, and 482 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,279 motivations of its own. A powerful political bureaucracy completely out 483 00:31:27,319 --> 00:31:29,799 of step with the rest of the country and immune 484 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:35,119 to the political process was and is a serious problem. 485 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:42,240 So just a quick question, what did you think people 486 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,759 meant on the right when they said we want to 487 00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:51,400 reduce the size of government. What do you think that meant. 488 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:54,920 Do you think that meant like nobody is going to 489 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,519 be let go? Do you think that meant nobody is 490 00:31:56,559 --> 00:31:58,880 going to like, no agencies are going to have budgets slash? 491 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,920 Do you think none of then gets pulled back? Because 492 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,519 that's actually exactly what that means. When the right talks 493 00:32:05,559 --> 00:32:08,759 about reducing the size and scope and reach of the 494 00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:13,920 federal government, particularly, that's what it means. It has always 495 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:16,599 meant that. So when you come andre like, oh my gosh, 496 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:18,279 these people are going to get laid off, like, we 497 00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:22,559 are aware, Yes, we are aware, and we don't believe 498 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,079 that all of those jobs are necessary. There is a 499 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,839 view on the right that a lot of the federal workers, 500 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,000 not all of them. There are a lot of good 501 00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:37,000 people doing necessary work. I am not an anarchist, but 502 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:40,839 there are a lot of people that are in those jobs. 503 00:32:41,119 --> 00:32:47,119 As essentially a UBI a universal basic income right, it's 504 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,039 a jobs program for a lot of employees, and then 505 00:32:50,079 --> 00:32:53,599 they vote to keep the party in power, so it's 506 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,920 sort of like a like a transfer of the money 507 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,960 to them, so it's more like a TBI, which makes sense. 508 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,480 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 509 00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:07,559 so much for listening. 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