The Great America Show - February 12, 2025


Wednesday Headlines： February 12, 2025

Topics
government wasteful spending
Hosted by
John Fawcett Lou Dobbs
Mentioned
Trump Elon Musk Doge Uncle Sam Nancy
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

159.42

Word count

991

Sentence count

60

Harmful content

Toxicity

4

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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Elon Musk is looking into why some federal employees are getting rich while working for the government. Also, the government is spending millions of dollars on transgender animal experiments, and the White House wants to ban transgender people from using birth control.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, February 12th.
00:00:05.080 Happy Wednesday, everybody. We're halfway through the weekend. It's almost the weekend.
00:00:09.940 President Trump and Elon Musk hosting a press conference in the Oval Office last night.
00:00:14.860 Elon Musk laying out one of Doge's latest findings and their latest investigations they're going to start looking into.
00:00:23.500 Musk is reportedly looking into federal employees who managed to accrue, quote, tens of millions of dollars in net worth while being government employees.
00:00:34.260 How is that possible, you may ask? Well, we're wondering the same thing. Take a listen.
00:00:39.140 Could you mention some of the things that your team has found, some of the crazy numbers, including the woman that walked away with about 30 million, et cetera?
00:00:49.100 Well, we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars,
00:01:03.380 but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is, you know, what happened to USAID.
00:01:11.940 We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps.
00:01:19.980 But it just seems to be mysteriously they get wealthier. We don't know why. Where do they come from?
00:01:27.240 And I think the reality is that they're getting wealthier to tax their expense. That's the honest truth of it.
00:01:32.620 So, you know, we're looking at, say, if you look at, say, Treasury, for example, basic controls that should be in place, that are in place in any company,
00:01:47.920 such as making sure that any given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is a comment field that describes the payment,
00:01:55.640 and that if a payment is on the do not pay list, that you don't actually pay it. None of those things are true currently.
00:02:02.320 So the reason that departments can't pass audits is because the payments don't have a categorization code.
00:02:09.000 It's like just a massive number of blank checks just flying out the building. So you can't reconcile blank checks.
00:02:15.460 You've got comment fields that are also blanks. You don't know why the payment was made.
00:02:18.640 And then we've got this, a truly absurd, a do not pay list, which can take up to a year for an organization to get on the do not pay list.
00:02:28.860 And we're talking about terrorist organizations. We're talking about known fraudsters, known aspects of waste,
00:02:35.600 known things that do not match any congressional appropriation.
00:02:38.320 It can take up to a year to get on the list. And even what's on the list, the list is not used.
00:02:44.360 It's mind-blowing.
00:02:45.180 So what we're talking about here, we're really just talking about adding common sense controls that should be present,
00:02:54.060 that haven't been present.
00:02:56.680 Elon Musk in his brilliant, snarky manner, trying to figure out exactly how these people are getting so rich.
00:03:04.240 Maybe he should start with looking at Nancy Pelosi and her investment strategy.
00:03:07.960 If the government were to invest their money like Nancy's invested their money,
00:03:11.520 we'd have this, you know, over $30 trillion in debt paid off probably in just a few days.
00:03:18.100 So hopefully Elon Musk can get to the bottom of that, making plenty of enemies along the way.
00:03:24.440 The Marxist Dems aren't too happy that President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to root out government corruption and waste and fraud.
00:03:32.920 Also uncovered by Doge, we find out that there are at least 15 active NIH grants paying for,
00:03:40.780 you ready for this folks, transgender animal experiments. 1.00
00:03:45.840 White Coat Waste, it's an organization aimed at stopping cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded vivisections,
00:03:51.760 has identified 15 NIH grants that is paying for these experiments,
00:03:57.080 amounting to a total of just over $26 million.
00:03:59.600 Many of these, quote, transgender animal grants were coded in the NIH's, quote,
00:04:05.660 sexual and gender minorities category, category routinely used to root diversity, equity, and inclusion grants,
00:04:12.460 which accounted for approximately $373 million of spending in 2023.
00:04:18.420 One of the experiments at the University of Alabama or Birmingham cost Uncle Sam almost $700,000,
00:04:24.940 a sum well-spent, while studying whether mice receiving so-called, quote,
00:04:29.700 gender-affirming hormone therapy responded well to treatments for kidney failure.
00:04:35.280 At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, $2.6 million has been spent since 2019,
00:04:40.900 turning mice transgender to study testosterone treatment on, quote,
00:04:44.760 reproductive phenotype and function and determine the reversibility of these effects following
00:04:50.200 resuscitation of the hormone.
00:04:53.200 Folks, the list goes on.
00:04:54.420 $10 million spent in Oregon.
00:04:56.360 Just more government wasteful spending.
00:04:58.920 Never did I think we'd see the day that we're doing testing on transgender rodents. 1.00
00:05:05.800 Truly, truly a disgrace. 0.97
00:05:07.780 And President Trump taking on fake news.
00:05:10.320 The Associated Press, also known as the AP,
00:05:13.000 for their refusal to acknowledge the administration's directives.
00:05:15.840 This comes after the Associated Press blatantly ignored an executive order
00:05:20.020 renaming the Gulf of Mexico, where's that?
00:05:23.240 I haven't heard of that.
00:05:24.440 To the Gulf of America.
00:05:26.340 On Sunday, while traveling to the Super Bowl aboard Air Force One,
00:05:28.940 President Trump not only had changed the name of the vast body of water
00:05:32.160 between Mexico and Florida,
00:05:33.840 but also declared February 9th, 2025,
00:05:36.880 as the inaugural, quote, Gulf of America Day.
00:05:40.160 The Associated Press is having a very tough time
00:05:42.980 with President Trump back in office.
00:05:46.500 We hope they get well soon
00:05:48.060 and they get their act together
00:05:49.720 because the Trump derangement syndrome 1.00
00:05:52.000 and the mental issues these folks have 0.98
00:05:54.760 is truly unhealthy, both for themselves
00:05:57.540 and for this country.
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00:06:09.380 I'm John Fawcett with this midday update.
00:06:11.640 Have a great day, folks.