News Roundup & Comment | February 7, 2025

 

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With about three programs worth of material to present, Jim covered as much ground as he could.  Here’s a sample of what was shared during the first quarter-hour of the broadcast.

–The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) paid almost 2 million dollars to empower transgender organizations in Guatemala.  1.5 million was spent to promote the LGBTQ+ agenda in Serbia.  About 151 million went to aid terrorists in Gaza and the West Bank.  Overall, Elon Musk estimates that your federal government squandered about 700 billion dollars per year on fraud and more than a trillion dollars on waste. 

–Elon Musk has hired a team of six software engineers between the ages of 19 and 24 as members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  

–The interim U.S Attorney for Washington, D.C., is suggesting individuals threatening employees at DOGE could be prosecuted.

–Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that preliminary recruitment figures for the military show how interest in serving is quickly rising under President Trump.

–Last Saturday President Trump declared a national emergency along the U.S./ Canada border. 

–On Thursday, President Trump authorized economic and travel sanctions against the International Criminal Court for targeting the U.S. and Israel.

–The U.S. Department of Defense is developing plans to withdraw all U.S. troops    from Syria citing some defense officials.

–On Wednesday, Elon Musk vowed to end the federal government’s wasteful expenditure of nearly 8.5 million last year on premium subscriptions to Politico.

–Biden’s U.S. Department of Agriculture sought to punish schools that did not adopt the radical LGBT agenda by denying underprivileged children access to free or reduced lunches under the national school lunch program.   

–There are zero academic subjects in which more than half of America’s public education students are proficient. 

–President Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and in the short term, dismantling it from within according to people briefed on the contents. 

–On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled that the White House wants Trump’s tax cut package from 2017 to be extended permanently before the expiration this year rather than a temporary extension.

–President Trump signed an executive order that calls for an end to men’s participation in women’s sports.

–The NCAA fell in line yesterday, announcing a new policy that limits college women’s sports to those “assigned female at birth only.”

–A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison be housed in male facilities and the government stop funding their gender-affirming care.

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