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It's kind of a brotherhood or sisterhood of people who all believe that your dream matters. Real estate agents I trust Dot com. Go there now. Real estate agents I trust. Dot com. Okay, so Rubio is cutting the budget dramatic. What is it, Pat? 85% of the USAID programs he's cutting. Let me just put you at your kitchen table here for a second. You got the bills spread out all over your table, and you're like, oh, where's all this money going? I can't afford to meet all of the bills. Where's the money going? And then you see on your credit card a charge for 70,000 for a musical in Ireland. And you're like, honey, Right? That's the first thing you would say. Honey, did we sign up for a musical in Ireland? You know how close we are to bankruptcy? What the hell is this? Well, I just thought it would be nice. No more spending on musicals in Ireland, for the love of Pete. But that's what's been happening with your tax dollars through USAID, and it's much worse than that. So 83% of all of the USAID programs are getting the ax. Amen and amen. If you have been listening to me for the last 15 or 20 years, I've been circling USAID over and over and over again. Really bad collection of radicals that are spending your tax dollars on things you don't know about. This is a long overdue reckoning. Okay. The United States Agency for International Development. Notice that it's called U.S. aid, but they never say it that way. It looks like that, but it's not. It's usaid. That's what it's called. Not usaid. Usaid. Why? Because it's the Agency for International Development. It rolled into the scene in 1961, courtesy of John F. Kennedy. And it was supposed to be our shining beacon in the Cold War, a way to win the hearts and minds, showing the world what freedom and generosity could look like. Remember, we're in the Cold War. We're trying to beat the Soviets. So it's less than inspiring when you really know. Maybe it's clever when you know what it was really meant to do. It was meant to overthrow communism. It was. It was meant to buy elections, work with revolutionaries, and also go into countries and say, look how great Uncle Sam is. Right? But we jumped that last track long ago. Your tax dollars. We shelled out 1.5 million to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace of Serbia. I don't think most Americans could find Serbia on a map. Why do we care about what Serbians are talking about around the water cooler? Okay, $70,000 for a DEI themed musical in our. Honey, I don't really think that Uncle Sam needs to swoop in with a song and dance number. I really don't. Ireland. You're on your own with that thing. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Columbia. Now, as much as I love the arts. No. What the hell is that? $32,000 for transgender comic in Peru. Are we. Are we running a charity or is this some sort of global art festival? I'm not. I'm. I'm not really sure. So USAID finally is caught red handed funding fun. Funding the meals that ended up feeding Al Qaeda fighters in Syria. Now, when I got up this morning, I was thinking to myself, you know what? We should be more charitable towards Al Qaeda. No, it wasn't me. Maybe. I don't think it was you. If it was, maybe you should. Honey, ask yourself, when the hell did I become for that? And then there's the millions and millions of dollars funneled into EcoHealth Alliance. Do you remember that name? EcoHealth Alliance. The makers of the Wuhan Lab and COVID 19. Why did we spend all of that money? Okay, also, can we talk about the elephant in the room? And when I say elephant in the room, I mean the one that's wearing a trench. Trench coat hat and dark glasses. You know, the CIA elephant that is in the room. Because that's what this is. This is a CIA. CIA front. That's what USAID is. That's not tinfoil hat stuff. That's cold hard fact. Back in the Cold War, they were training foreign police and counterinsurgency tactic tactics, torture techniques in Latin America. You know, all those fun things that we've all grown to love so much and have really caused the rest of the world to love us so much. That's not a conspiracy. That's history. Documented and undeniable. Now, what happens when the Cold War ends? Well, we have to find new enemies because all that funding is there. So what do we do now? Okay, well, the Cuban Twitter fiasco to stir up dissent in Cuba, bankrolled by usaid. Then there's Ukraine. I don't even know where to start with Ukraine. Hey, do you remember Hunter Biden, who was. Had that cushy, cushy gig on the board of Burisma? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, while Hunter was cashing those checks, his dad was vp. USAID was pouring money into Ukraine for development and governance programs. Guess who one of the recipients of that was? Everybody's favorite. George Soros. Now, I don't know. I don't think that's a good idea. Is this aid or is this revolution? Is this aid or is this just greasing palms? There's gonna be people who stand. Democrats and people on the left, and I shouldn't say really good people who really care about aid, who really care about people. And they're gonna stand because they hate Donald Trump so much, they're gonna say, just Donald Trump. He just hates helping people. Okay, first of all, this isn't about Trump. It's not about Trump. It's about us. It's about you and me and every single taxpayer who is sick of seeing our money flushed down the drain on pet projects and covert ops. I don't want covert ops that are. No. That are no longer even overseen by Congress. This isn't about being stingy. This is not about turning our backs on the world. This is about accountability. It's about making sure that when we do want to help, we're actually helping, not hurting. Think about. Think about it like this. You're running a small business, and you find out that 83%. 83% of your expenses are going to stuff that doesn't move the needle at all for your business. Okay? Fancy coffee machines, you know, random side hustles, you name it. 83% of what you're spending, and you're a small business. Do you cut that or do you go, well, that might be doing good. I mean, coffee is very important. Now. You would cut it. Why? Because everyone suffers. If you go out of business and you don't cut it, you refocus on what works, what keeps the lights on, and that's what usaid, that's what the overhaul is aiming for. That's why they didn't cut a hundred percent. I would have cut a hundred percent. That's why they didn't cut a hundred percent. I guess some of it does. Does good things. I personally Believe in private charity. I don't want the government in charity business. We. That's our job. But this isn't about killing aid. This is just about making it effective, aligning it with our national interest and, dare I say, our values, if we have any. That's all the while trying to stop the bleeding out of. Of the out of control spending. We're bleeding out on the table. We all know this spending is going to kill us. I don't know why we continue to not do anything about it, why we don't demand. Wait a minute. No. Republicans, Democrats. Stop the insanity. We're bleeding out on the table. The longer we make this about Trump or the left or the right or Biden, the faster the patient called America dies on the table. Can we focus on what really matters? So let's prioritize what matters. Well, number one, national security. Okay? We can't help anyone if we are not secure in a world where China is building islands in the South China Sea and Russia's flexing its muscles. We cannot afford to waste any of our resources on DEI musicals or transgender comic books. Can we please, for the love of Pete, be a little strategic? I want to build alliances, but I do not want to bankroll our enemies, foreign or domestic. But this just isn't about security. It's also about building an alliance, okay? It's about morality. When our aid ends up in the hands of terrorists, we're not just wasting money. We're betraying the people that we're supposed to be helping and betraying the people who gave that money. Does it. Does no one see? You know, I get some of the money that you spend on the commercials, you know, that's why. Commercials, they pay me to. Because you're going to go out and buy stuff. Hopefully. Because I've made a good case that it's something that will benefit your life. When you subscribe to the Blaze, I get a few pennies on everything that you subscribe, and I look at that as sacred money. I say this in staff meetings over and over again. What do our listeners need? How can we make their lives better? I'm trying to. I look at your money. I know how hard it is for you to buy a subscription. I know what it is. I know what time we're living in. I know you have a billion other choices. How can I serve you better is what I ask all the time. Sarah, am I right? All the time I ask that. How can we help them? Do you really think that this is helping the taxpayer? The DEI musical In Ireland. Do you think that's helping you or your friends? That's not who we are. We're better than this. Now let me just talk to your friends or let me just give you the case so you can talk to your friends who just hate Donald Trump. And everything is about Donald Trump. It's not about logic anymore. It's just about Donald Trump. I have a challenge for them. Look past the messenger and hear the message. This isn't a partisan power grab. It's a chance to clean house, to zero set our budgets and look at it and say what's important. Have you ever. Do you have subscriptions that you have no idea that you are paying for? Have you ever done that? You look at the subscriptions like, what the hell is a 699 for that and 899 for that and 399 for that? All of a sudden those add up. You have to zero set and go, okay, let's just do the right thing. Forget about all these things that we have been doing. Let's, let's, let's look and see what is the right thing to do. When you take USAID and you, you look at it and you, you look at it as US Aid, you think, oh, that's a force for good, but it's not. It's a slush fund for bureaucrats and spies. That's what it was designed to be. I don't. We don't live in 1961 anymore. I think we should maybe reevaluate the whole thing. And you don't have to love the guy in the Oval Office to see this makes sense. Waste is waste. Inefficiency is inefficiency. Accountability should not have a party label on it. When your friends start talking to you about this Donald Trump. Stop it right now. Stop it. Should accountability have a party label? Is inefficiency ever? Okay? Is waste of your. You know, they say time is money. You are working until April 19th just to pay your taxes from January 1st to April 19th. Days after you have to pay your taxes, you're still working to pay those taxes. Are you okay with any kind of waste of that money? Cause I'm not. This is not slashing foreign aid. It's. It's not gonna turn America into some sort of hermit kingdom. Nowhere is anyone saying we should stop helping people. We're saying we should stop screwing it up. How do you argue with that? Not saying, shut the door. We're not saying isolate ourselves. We're saying, can we reevaluate for a second here because we're in deep trouble with our spending. We're talking about taking our treasury and locking the doors when there are thieves at the door and opening the treasury when there's good to be done. How is that suddenly so unreasonable? You know, there are a lot of things I talk about on this program so you can get ahead of things. 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