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It is six fifteen and welcome to a Wednesday, the nineteenth of February. Good morning, Good to have you along. Gary David, as just mentioned, Christopher Thompson also just mentioned.
All right, that forecast sounds a little more palatable, at least for those of us here on this side of the Midlands.
Yeah.
I think it's it's not gonna be nice. I mean it's gonna be cold, and you know, off and on rain, but forty now here, so the temperature will go up maybe three degrees today. That's gonna be about it. Well high forty three years so. But yeah, so cold rain for us again northern Midlands counties. The potential for a little bit of wintery mix but not enough to cause any problems is what the idea is here.
The only thing that concerned me is when he said everything that gets wet today could get slick tonight.
Well, yeah, because we'll be down just below freezing tonight, so that could be problematic in the morning. Of course we've been warned about that for a couple of days. It could be a few slick spots, but it's not like we're looking at, you know, a whole bunch of rain today. Necessarily tenth or a quarter of an inch. It's what the National Weather Service is calling for today. The interesting part is a little wrap around moisture tomorrow
morning could bring us a little bout of snow flurries. Yeah,
like you know, ten eleven o'clock tomorrow morning, something like that. Okay, again, not enough to cause any issues, but yeah, we could say we've actually seen wintry weather around here for the third time this year, although not a whole lot for us has happened so far, but there's that, man, So yeah, I think the biggest concerns is going to be any any wet spots tomorrow morning or late to night if you're out driving around as we get back below freezing
could be problematic. So there's that. Not a huge deal for us. But but Cole yes Tiler to mention, we're not gonna get of the forties until what this weekend. We'll stay in the forties for high temperatures through Friday. But hey, you know, all is not lost next Tuesday looking for a high in the low seventies.
So here we go back and figure.
Yes, but yeah, as far as you know, schools and stuff now that there could be at least I don't know, delays, maybe the remote learning tomorrow again because.
The potential for ricey stuff. Amen. Boy.
The cold weather across the country and in this storm, well, it just brings us a little bit of stuff here, I mean further north. Imagine Kentucky for example. I mean they're going through a major flooding disaster and now they're looking at a whole bunch of snow on top of that. So, yeah, situations are bad in parts of the South and other parts of the country today.
Yeah, I saw Virginia Beach was gonna get hammered, I think, and I think Jim Cantorre at last check he was heading for Norfolk.
Oh boy, look out in Norfolk. Yeah, here it comes run down.
Big stories, hot topics are on a Wednesday morning, Well, Adare Burrows is going to look for a new job. The US Attorney for South Carolina, appointed by Joe Biden, acted by Trump don't take it personal. Adare you know all the all of the US attorneys put in place by Biden have been acted by Trump. And oh, by the way, before you know any liberals go hog wild over this, this is pretty much the way it works.
Okay.
New presidents come in, especially if they have a different party, they get rid of all the US attorneys that the prior party installed. So yeah, interesting that governorment Maaster says that apossible replacement for uh Adir Burrows is Brian Sterling, who's headed up our our Department of Corrections for seemingly forever.
I think he had a chance at that job the first Trump administration.
Seems like maybe he did, as I recall, Yeah, uh so yeah, and Sterling is really I mean, if Brian Sterling takes this job, who's gonna who's gonna continue to lead the fight to try to get cell phones banned and state prisons in South Carolina across the country.
Yeh wow.
But anyway, we'll see where how things come. Got a little energy news to get into this morning, and will spend some time talking about that. You've got some officials now that are pushing for retail choice, big manufacturers and such saying maybe they could buy their electricity from somewhere other than providers here in South Carolina. How would that work? Mhmm, And the Posting Courier with an op ed their editorial staff. Here's the headline on this one. Se House's utility friendly
bill sacrifices ratepayer interests Again. Now, this has nothing to do with what we talked about a few weeks ago, where they're you know, kind of changing the oversight of these of these projects, not totally doing away with environmental oversight, but just at least lengthening the amount of time you've got to try to lodge protests and appeals and such so we can get business done here. Now, this actually
has to do with a couple of other things. And are we actually looking at something that is at least vaguely similar to the Baseload Review Act. We'll have to get into that. Yeah, they're still investigating over the State House into the non existent one point eight billion dollars. You know, we've had the audit, we've had the report from the outside auditing company. We know that money never existed. We've heard from all the parties, but they're continued to
review this thing. At this point in time. I can only imagine the only point of the review is you got folks who think that the the treasurer should be out of there. I can't imagine anything else at this point. You know, the Comptroller general who was here when this all started, he's been gone now for a couple of years. I don't know what else other than that they met behind closed doors again last night. Pretty commonplace, Richland District one,
getting legal advice about the Vinceford Early Learning Center. But they did this in executive session. Details not disclosed to the public. President Trump and Elon Musk is sitting down for a interview with Sean Hannity that aired last night on the Fox News Channel. And Sean had a few other things to say about this yesterday, and we'll again a day later on here on wvoc the Democrat to
refrain that Trump and Musker and violation of the Constitution. Well, they addressed that yesterday, saying what the Democrats doing, it's unconstitutional. A federal judge will not immediately block Musk or Doge from federal data or worker layoffs. That yesterday a judge refusing to at least immediately block this. And this is interesting. This is a Tanya a Chudkin who has been involved in other Trump cases.
As you may.
Recall, in the DC area, high level talks agreed to yesterday between the US and Russia. Now, has this got to do with more with US and Russian relations than well the ongoing conflict in Ukraine? Possibly, But let's face it, you know, enemy ally whomever. We need to have open lines of communication, and we have not had that under the Biden administration. So it looks like, if nothing else, some sort of a normalization of least communication is going on.
Tom Holman says that ice arrests are way up and the illegal border crossings are way down, although you will see some stories out there claiming that it's just the opposite. They encountered fewer than two hundred and thirty migrant crossings, and the most recent twenty four hour parody says, consider that the high during the Biden administration was well over eleven thousand a day.
Wow.
Yeah, gone from days when you had eleven thousand plus to well a day when you've had fewer than two hundred and thirty. Goodness says, what about the tariffs South Carolinia and Scott Besson the new Treasury secretary.
The microphone went off on me. They're sorry about that.
Was I supposed to be done there best And yesterday breaking down how these tariffs could bring in a ton of money to this country, to the tune of two and a half trillion dollars, he says, and he claims that the impact on you and me, the consumers will be minimal. Uh okay, we could get a vote this week. It looks like now on the cash Betel to head up the FBI. The procedural votes have been taken, so it's moving ahead now. There will be a full state
vote sometime this week. And with eight prices soaring and well the limitations being put on them in some places of the White House planning a new strategy.
What is it?
Well, it has something to do with calling the mass of some of these birds. Apparently we'll get to that. More on this. The Wednesday edition of Columbia's Morning News is good to have you with us as always, here.
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Six forty three. Good morning to you.
Now again the weather's tyl of just mentioned today for US at cold rain here for most of the Midlands, there are winter weather advisories out for Kershaw Lee Counties, places like Sumter for example. Now that's been expanded to Sumter up towards CAMDENA towards Darlington and Florence and at Cheraw all under winter weather advisories. Today there's that potential for some light, light frozen precipitation, not enough to cause
power outages or real bad problems. But again evening hours temperatures dropping back to just below freezing tonight tomorrow morning, any wetness on the roads could lead to slick spots certainly, And there's this. Then there's this really weird thing. You might actually see a snow for even here in the Lumbia area, possibly not today but tomorrow around maybe eleven am or so, as the system kind of wraps back
around on its way out of here. So that's but again it would just be a flurry or two tops. Nobody even in those when a weather advisory is expect to get anything that's going to be you know, really problematic. So but it's gonna be cold. Twmperature is pretty much what we got now is what we're gonna get for the rest of the day to day, it looks like. So there's a new strategy being mulled to try to deal with this avian flu crisis. This this virus, and
it does not have to do with mass calling. This is this has been what the the industry has always done. When these birds, the chickens and the turkeys start to dying from disease, well they just you know, depopulate, and yeah, every bird on a farm they'll kill to keep it from spreading.
Seek that sounds or intuitive? Does that mean yeah, fewer chickens to lay eggs?
But okay, okay, and this is what we've been doing for a long time right now, and so as a result, we've we've got the the egg crisis we have on our hands right now.
I purchased some last night. By the way, would you pay for.
Four? Is the national average right now? Okay, well not everywhere, it's kind of the national average.
So yeah, and I wasn't picky. I chose the cheapest eggs, which were vegetarian fed brown. I didn't care if it came, if it came with a yolk, I bought it.
It was you're doing it right.
Yep.
Well, there is a move now. The Trump administration may may be planning a new strategy here, one that would include vaccinations and tighter biosecurity instead of killing off millions of chickens when therese just these diseases strike a flock.
Uh.
We don't have any real details here, but Kevin Hassett, who's the director of the National Economic Council, was on CBS this past week on facination and said this would involve a better, smarter perimeter around these poultry farms. So it doesn't make any sense to kill all the chickens inside when the disease is being spread by wild ducks and geese outside, So keep them away, duh. And yeah, this would include some vaccinations. Now here's the problem of vaccinations.
And yes, we do have, believe it or not, a congressional chicken caucus. Yes, that's a thing. They're not happy with the idea of vaccinations. Apparently, what happens here is most of our trading partners overseas won't accept exports from countries that allow vaccinations, and their reason is that they're they're concerned that vaccines can mask the presence of a virus.
They want it spreading there. Okay, So, as a result, the Chicken Caucus has for a long time resisted the idea because of that and because they say it's very expensive. What can be more expensive and killing off your entire flock? Well, regardless, there are avian influenza vaccines that have been available for a long time now they're just not being used. One company, Zotis, announced Friday they had gotten a conditional license from the
USDA for a new vaccine. This is almost kind of starting to sound like the whole you know, Operation warp speed during COVID. Right, let's rush and get a new vas. So if you're feeling a little trepidation, I get it. But yeah, the idea that whenever something like this pops up, that we just kill off the entire flow, well you understand then why egg prices are so high, they're so hard to get. Well, there's got to be a better way. I mean, come on, but is it the Chicken Caucus
standing in the way of all this? Because it could reduce exports and it could you know they have to vaccinate all these chickens. It could get kind of expensive for them, But again, what's the trade off. I can't imagine it's more expensive than killing off all your birds. Now you've got nothing. And remember this all started not during the Trump administration, but during the Biden administration. So yeah, it begs the question, well, what exactly were they doing,
if anything at all. Well, apparently just let them kill off all the birds like we've always done. So maybe there's a new strategy. But don't expect, regardless, even if they implement this to turn to turn the the the big egg crisis around anytime soon. What they make egg beaters out of? By the way, is there is there any egg actually involved in an egg beater?
Yeah, it's the it's the egg whites, right is that?
Okay? I guess it is.
And then I think they mix in a little yolk.
Okay, Well it's time for a somebody to manufacture of a lab grown egg or something.
I don't I don't know. We'll put a eye out of that.
I was gonna say, figure it with or elon musk. We'll figure it out.
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right over here. Good morning. Wanting to you sir. Okay, it's not a sexy subject necessarily, but it is one that has an impact on each and every South Carolinian, and that is well, electricity.
What do we do.
About our growing, burgeoning energy crisis. Oh got a couple of things talk about here this morning, and one is one that I boy, I was afraid we might be seeing. Well, we'll start with this, an outfit called the Palmetto Industrial Energy Association, which describes itself as a watchdog organization, well not for little people like you and me, but for
large manufacturers. Holding a press conference along with a couple of state senators yesterday, they spoke in favor of retail choice, an option that would allow these big manufacturers to purchase electricity they use directly from other suppliers beside their local utility or or even degenerated themselves. Now, this sounds like a pretty good idea to me, but there are detractors. Opponents of this say that would create volatility in the
average retail price of electricity. We may see our rates fually. I don't pretend to understand why that would be, but this is their argument. But well, the argument that the Palmetal Industrial Energy Association Association makes is that well, this could This would would foster competition between providers, which could wind up and reduce costs for.
You and me, the little people.
Okay, I mean again, this is one of the big issues we've talked about, the big manufacturing facility, the data farms for artificial intelligence, and how much energy they suck up, not just here but across the nation. What the estimate is by next year sometime these AI data farms, of which there are some twenty five twenty six hundred across the country, will be using about six percent of all
electricity generated. Imagine that how many between households and business I don't know how many meters there are in this country, but it's hundreds of millions, right, you would think, right, and you're talking about fewer than three thousand of those meters taking six percent of all the energy we produce by next year. You can see where Houston we have a problem. Now quote Okay, so they could buy it
from some other provider. Well, that's just sucking up energy that somebody else would be having, I guess.
But what about them using at themselves.
I don't know what that would entail, how much that would cost, but that would be a massive undertaking, I would say.
But this is their argument. So there's that.
Now. The Post and Courier editorial staff, putting this out yesterday, sc houses, you've utility friendly bill sacrifices ratepayer interests again, they say. Now, they make the point that this recently passed bill, the South Carolina Energy Security Act, isn't quite as I say, egregious to consumers as the bill the House passed last year, won the Senate wouldn't even take up for debate. But a couple of the things that were in that seemed to be back. Here's one of them.
The Office of Regulatory Staff, which since twenty eighteen. This came around as part of the reform after the VC Summer debacle. The RS since twenty eighteen has been tasked with looking out for the best interest of the consumer. Prior to that, they had to do this balancing Act thing which they had to look out for the best interest of both the consumer and the utility, which was ludicrous. I mean, that's what the Public Service Commission is for,
right to deal with the utility side of things. Okay, that changed back in twenty eighteen, but apparently it's back now. And yeah, the RS would be again tasked with a balancing act, trying to balance what's good for the consumer and the utility at the same time. Nikes. But wait, here's the kicker. This south kind of energy Security Act.
The editorial Board points out, this is in here. If a utility tries to build what they call a small modular nuclear reactor, and I don't know what exactly the definition of that is, he would going back in and trying to complete the VC Summer plan.
I wouldn't.
That doesn't sound small to me.
No, that doesn't sound like a small modular nuclear reactor. But if a utility wanted to build one, but like VC Summer abandons the project mid construction, this bill would still allow the utility to charge the ratepayer. Really, there is a caveat here. If the Public Service Commission considers an adequate accounting first decision, it wouldn't be automatic like the base Load Review Act. Uh, there is legislation that does prohibit these utilities are making profit on wasted money.
But still it's it's a it's a piece of legislation, that's uh.
You know.
Again, the argument, the argument made by the interil board has heavily weighted towards well raising our power bowls again so they can recoup their losses. Wouldn't be automatic like the Baseload Review Act, which we're still paying for, by the way, but it it would put in the hands of the PSE to determine if there was a financially sound reason why they abandoned project midstream, then yeah, they
could potentially recoup those costs from us the ratepayers. Okay, I understand that we're getting to the point of desperation now in trying to provide for energy needs, But for the life of me, I really didn't think that we would go as far as to fort with this whole base Load Review Act IDEA again not automatic like it was then, but it could happen.
I'm surprised that, I mean, we knew this was coming. I'm surprised there's not a more unified point of view that's out there by now. But there are so many different interests the utilities, you know, is this as this retail choice, this limited retail choice points out the utilities are going to fight anything that takes away from them.
And considering that one of those utilities is owned by the state, and good luck with that.
And then you've got, on the other hand, you know, the legislature who's apparently willing to give up a lot in order to try and get more energy going here in this state. It makes you almost cringe to think, you know what they're willing to give up in terms of our rate payer rights in order to get something new on the grid.
And of course, remember the Public Service Commission, which would if a a small modular nuclear actor were to be attempted to be built and then abandoned, and they went to the PSC and said, uh, yeah, we we want to recoup our money. Fron Remember who appoints the members of the PSC, the legislature, This is political, Yes, it is, okay.
I mean, they're so good at studying things over there, you would think they would know this by now. But there are a lot of states that do retail choice. So it does it work exactly? I think Georgia does.
I think they do.
All right, So get over there figure out what works for them and what doesn't.
Oh yeah, and by the way, George was able to finish their nuclear power plant too. Maybe we could learn something from our neighbors on.
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Coming upon seven forty three. Good morning, you're good to have you long for Wednesday, February nineteenth. Again, our weather, as Tyler is mentioned, we got a little some cold rain coming in here later on this morning, maybe more like lunchtime, give or take not a wash out. National Weather Service says between a tenth and a quarter of an anchi of rain as possible and a cold rain for most of the Midlands. There are some wind weather advisories out there for oh Kershaw County. Let's see Camden
Sumter County under a wind and weather advisory. Again, if you get something some mixed precipitation, very light shouldn't cause problems. But yet concerns for tomorrow morning. The wet roadway is going to freeze over tonight because load's will be well.
Not as cold as they will be, say.
Friday morning, when we're talking about twenty thirty tomorrow morning, but it'll freeze and we could get some of that wrap around action right around eleven o'clock or so tomorrow morning. That could bring a flurry or two. So don't be shocked by that. It could happen.
But that's tomorrow.
Now, that's tomorrow, not today, right, Okay, there are a lot of balls in the air. I think we could all agree in that statement, right, A lot of balls in the air here, and some of them may well be interconnected and we don't even realize it. Scott Besson, the South Carolinian who is Trump's Treasury secretary, in an interview when it comes to tariffs, how tariffs that Trump is is laying out there could bring in a lot of money of this country and well, Besson promises the
impact on you and me the little people will be minimal. Well, that'd be great. Yeah, if it works out that way.
Can he make that promise?
He promised it?
Okay, okay, we'll see.
He says.
He says, he thinks that very little of what can be passed on the consumer. He thinks knowing the currency adjusts, that's that's part we don't and most of us don't quite understand all that. You know, the currency fluctuator, fluctuations and shut and such, and how you know the dollar goes up or whatever, how this could really offset you know, yadda YadA. Yeah, I don't even Heck, can I study financing college man? And number when that was a long, long, long,
long time ago. I think I've forgotten all that. But regardless, his viewpoint, and he's a smart guy, is that over a decade, tariffs could actually bring in two point five trillion dollars into this country and that we as the little people could be minimally, minimally affected by it all. Well, I hope he's right.
I hope so too.
Now again, I say, all these balls in the air and are some interconnected? Best in thinks that actually that by instituting tariffs and bringing down energy prices. Remember, okay, all the focus has been on our meetings with Russia, all the focus has been on the Ukrainian situation. You know, we're looking to seek to re establish normalization with the Russian government, which we haven't had in a while. And how important that is, whether they're your friend or your foe,
that we have open lines of communication. But I remember, as we mentioned this briefly yesterday, part of all these there were sideline talks that had to do with what oil. Maybe that's why these talks were held in Saudi Arabia. I don't know, but that was part of the conversation.
Well, we remember when conflict first started, everyone talked about the impact it would have on oil.
It has, yes, so best in things that again, this could bring down energy prices, and he says, I think for overall inflation, when we get these prices down, when we deregulate that we saw on Trump's first term that inflation is going to be at that FED target of two percent or less, which it hadn't been in a long time. So there's a lot of things that play here, and sometimes it's not as obvious as maybe it should be. But don't just again look at these talks with Russia
as being just about Ukraine. There's a lot more on the table here. And I tell you what, if Trump's able to pull this one off when it comes to the economy, man, go ahead and go ahead and rename the mountain in West Virginia after him. Go ahead, and you know, and make his birthday a federal holiday. Because if he pulls this one off, man, that's a that's a superstar move right there. And let's hope he can. We all should hope that he can. Okay, even his biggest attractors should hope.
That he can.
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He appreciate you joining us this morning. It is sixteen after eight. Hope your winns is off to a good start. It's the nineteenth of February, and uh, well, guess pouching up the old resume A their Ford Burroughs is out as US Attorney for South Carolina. Got her got her pink slip? You're fired? Two days ago. Now again before the leftists get all, you know, been out of shape over this. This is customary whenever a president from another
party takes over. It's customary really for these US attorneys for these states to go ahead and resign their post. But Ford Burroughs had said that, well, she wasn't going to do that. She would wait for her termination letter, and she got it. I mean, that's one of these positions, that's a revolving door position. Burroughs was appointed by Biden in twenty twenty two, so she was in that position
not even three years. But even so she stands now as the longest serving presidential appointee in that post for the last six years.
They come and they.
Go their political appointments, and they require confirmation by the Senate, I believe, which is another hold up that sometimes occurs. Yeah, you've got to make sure not only everybody in the well the two senators from your state or in agreement on it, yeah, which they usually are. If it's getting that far perfectly, yes, then you've got to make sure other Republicans are on board. If it's a Republican appointee.
She wasn't the only one the remaining US attorneys. But in the position by Biden, we're all giving their pink slips the other day. So who takes over here? Well, what remains to be seen. Although the governor has said that Brian Sterling is up for consideration. The governor has said that, yes, he's quoted as saying that, yeah, okay.
Starting a so talent, so experience. Everybody trusts him. I don't know anyone who dislikes him, so he was gushing, yeah.
For good reason. I mean, Brian's been a superstar of his administration.
He has been again Startling, the director of the Department of Corrections, and he's been in that role for a long time, long time.
Yeah, we mentioned this earlier. I think he was up for that position in Trump's first administration and turned it down.
I'm trying to remember. I don't recall, but you're younger than me, so your memory is probably better than mine. So I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with you on that one. He's been in his current position since twenty fourteen. I mean, he's only eleven years, dealt with plenty of headaches along the way. You would think you'd be up for a different challenge, and maybe you know, moving his
political checker checker piece across the board a little bit further. Well, in this case, maybe a chess piece could be okay, So it remains to be seen.
Let's see how it goes.
They're still investigating, and again I don't know that this is now an investigation as it is. Well, for lack of a better term, and Curtis Loftus has used this term, which hunt. Uh. They're still investigating the state House, the missing that was never missing because that never existed one point eight billion dollars. I mean, we've got the we've got the report from the outside auditing firm. I think we know all that we need to know about. Well,
it never existed, right, it didn't. Now how we got to that point. We we've seen to know more about that too. So I'm not really sure exactly what the point is now, aside from accountability and whether or not, well we know this this pressure on Curtis Loftice that that much. We know whether this winds up getting him out of his position or not, we don't know.
But they're spill sitting spending. It's important.
I mean, you know, we also as a result of all this and maybe a few other things.
I don't know.
We we've got the Securities and Exchange Commission looking hard at us. They're investigating. It's not a good look and it's uh, you know, it has the potential to damage our our our credit rating, and that's not good for any of us here. We have to Yeah, we got we we We've been blessed to have a good credit rating in the state for a long time. Now, you know, you go ist win bonds. You know, we get the best we get the best rates out there. Let's hope
it stays that way. But this certainly has the potential to put that into some jeopardy. Okay, Richel District one met last night and uh they apparently, uh have learned now more. Uh we got more legal advice, I suppose I should say on the uh the Vinceford Early Learning Center. Now, we don't know what they they heard last night, because yeah, they went behind closed doors into executive session. That was when they received legal advice. You can run, but you
can't hide. Yeah, we don't know what that legal advice was. None of those details were shared. All we do to right now again is that this thing is on, This thirty million dollar project is on. Pause right now, it's on hold. It's been on hold now for more more than a year, and it's still mind boggling how they are able to even start construction without even getting the
proper permits for the job. Forget for a moment, you know, the Department of Education and just not really being a school, not the way it was originally designed and planned and envisioned. But how they actually started construction on this thing without a permit from the county. It's not like it was You're adding on a little something at the back of
your house and maybe the inspectra won't see it. I mean, they bulldozed over massive amounts of land and that causes problems for nearby homeowners.
It's still causing problem, uh huh. Yeah, and they're still in court over it.
Yes they are.
And it's still costing original county taxpayer some two grand a day just to secure the sight. Two thousand dollars a day every day. So I'm not sure what kind of legal advice they got or what they'll do with it. But again, we don't know what that legal advice was because they got that in an executive session. Remember they promised this transparency over there. Why not tell us what the what the the legal legals are telling.
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In eight forty one, President Trump and Elon Musk sitting down for a joint interview of the first time with Sean Hannity. It aired last night on the Fox News Channel. Among other things, the two accused Democrats of well, anytime it's got anything to do with Trump, it's always the constitution and democracy. Trump says, these people accusing us of of, you know, breaking the constitution. They said they didn't care
less about the Constitution. Yeah, what was the number? I think the numbers changing there and I having checked, but I know, yes, the number was fifty five billion dollars.
That does says they have saved it so far. They has the same number still, Yeah, fifty five billion.
Musk is actually saying he's not opposed himself to the idea of hey, get a load of this actually returning some of that money to where they got it from.
That would be you and me.
That would be you and me. Does that does that fall into the guys are buying an election.
I'd love to see some money coming back to us. However, it's let's let's wait and see what the tax plan looks like first, because you know, they're still trying to figure out ways to pay for everything that Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail.
Sure, yeah, I mean.
They were not adding to the deficit. That's the that's the whole point of this.
Well yeah, but at the same time, you know, I don't want to eliminate the debt ceiling, which only rises when the deficit rises. But well, but you know, the Democrats have to be Yeah, you gotta be very careful here, don't you. I mean, they're making so much of a fuss over this, and even folks had voted for him.
You start seeing some of the just the outlandish, outrageous, egregious spending that our government has been involved in, and not just during the Biden administration, by the way, I mean for a long.
Time, right, and then you see Democrat leaders arguing against doing anything about it because it's something. It's a it's a Trump initiative exactly.
That's the only reason why.
And you've got democratic, tech, Democrat taxpayers who are sitting there saying, wait a minute, I may hate Trump, but I want to save money too.
Yeah, you're wasting my money. Thank you. Well, you know, hey, I get it. You know, if it was.
The if the shoe were on the other foot, then Republicans would be crying foul to right, because you don't want the other party to get the credit for it.
Maybe you should have thought about it yourself.
Well, they're trying to pivot to something and embracing the alternative lifestyle didn't work.
Right, exactly, So now we'll pivot to well, we need to keep wasting your money. I don't see that working any better. Judge Tanya, I don't even know how to say it. A chewt Kunner chuck In. We remember her name because remember she was the judge involved in one of the Jack Smith cases, the one in DC. She yesterday refused to at least immediately block Musk and the Doge from accessing government data systems or participating.
In worker layoffs. Well, I was kind of a surprise.
The judge finding their are legitimate questions about Musk's authority, but saying there's not enough evidence of grave legal harm to justify any kind of a temporary restraining order. So this is a result of, again a lawsuit filed by fourteen Democrat states and attorneys general challenging the authority of DOGE to access sensitive government data. And again my argument is, if DOGE is a branch of the government, the government's been accessing our data and has the carte blanche.
They may not say they did, but you know they did.
I mean, come on, one of the things that's going to cost a lot again is you know, getting the illegal immigrant, especially the criminal population out of this country. Tom Holman, get a load of these numbers here now. And I say this because I don't know why I do this every morning. But I'm still at least briefly looking at the Drudge website. I don't know why I continue to do that, because Matt Drudge has gone just totally anti Trump. Here a lot of it has to
do with him. This goes back a number of years in case you're curious as to what happened there, But you would think am I reading Drudge or am I reading you know, mother Jones here, which I think is maybe the most liberal side out. I don't know, but anyway, but there was some link to an article about how
deportations were not going well. Blah blah blah blah. Holman giving us these numbers this week that in a twenty four hour period the most recent as of Monday, I guess Sunday, actually border patrolling counted fewer than two hundred and thirty migrant border crossers. Compare that, and again this was the high, but still compare that to a high of more than eleven thousand a day under Joe Biden. From eleven thousand a day down to fewer than two
hundred and thirty. Homan saying arrest inside the country by ice agents are up more than one hundred and thirty seven percent under Trump, and that arrest of illegal immigrants with gang affiliations has doubled. And if you want to know us still bring statistic Homans saying there are nearly six hundred thousand illegal immigrants in this country with a prior criminal conviction.
That's the scary part.
Yeah, that's very scary. Cash battel clearing a procedural hurdle. So we're going to get a vote this week on cash Battel as the director of the FB. Well, this is going to be some fun, now, isn't it. Of course, you know, the left, led by Dick Durbin, we're inviting a political disaster if we put cash Motel on this job. We've had a political disaster with the FBI. We've had it for the last four years. Come on, and remember
the case in Alabama. We're the Alabama Supreme Court in a ruling left a lot of gray area for fertility doctors as to whether or they could continue with IVF treatments. This one hit home for me and I would be childless if it weren't for IVF treatments our two sons or we have them thanks to that. So yeah, when I heard that story, it kind of hit home for me. But remember the Alabama legislature quickly moved to clear up any you know, any gray area when it came to that.
But still yet the Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris leading the charge saying that, yeah, Donald Trump and the Republicans were trying to outlaw forratority treatment as well. Trump yesterday signing an executive order promising to expand expand access to in vitro fertilization, as he wrote, to support American families, It is the policy of my administration to ensure reliable access to IVF treatment, including by easing unnecessary statutory or
regulatory burdens, to make IVF treatment drastically more affordable. Trust me from somebody who's been there. Affordable.
It ain't worth it. Yeah, it was