00:00And can I hold up, this is, I think, the first cabinet meeting since Elon Musk has not been a special government employee, not here anymore.
00:06He's now saying he's going to create a third political party. Are you worried about the impact that that could have?
00:12No, I think it'll help us. It'll probably help. Third parties have always been good for me. I don't know about Republicans, but for me.
00:19Are you second-guessing any of the cuts that Doe's made since, are you just arguing that it's off the rails the other day?
00:24We cut hundreds of billions of dollars with those. We could have done it differently. I would have done it differently a little bit, maybe.
00:31But it was something that we saved a lot of money. You can always second-guess.
00:38I guess some of the people in this room maybe would have done it slightly differently, and some would have done it exactly the way it was done.
00:44But it was dramatic, and it was important, and we found a lot of things, like billions of dollars given to people for environmental protection,
00:53where they had $100 in the account, like in Atlanta, Stacy. And then you had another one with $20 billion here,
01:00and $20 billion here, and $2 billion here, and $15 billion. And, Lee, you might want to mention just a couple of those things.
01:07We did — we really got because of those.
01:11At the Trump EPA, the one big, beautiful bill was filled with many big, beautiful wins for the taxpayer.
01:18It delivered a sledgehammer to the Green News scam. Billions of dollars rescinded.
01:25So it's a big deal for the American taxpayer who sees money go through pass-throughs that are filled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest.
01:36They see unqualified recipients.
01:38They see reduced agency oversight, and they want accountability with their tax dollars, and they got it.
01:46So in the example of the Stacy Abrams-Connected NGO, they received $100 in 2023.
01:53They got $2 billion in 2024.
01:56They had to complete training on how to develop a budget that was put into their grant agreement.
02:02They, out of nowhere, started paying a CEO $800,000, a CEO $450,000, 22 people making over $150,000.
02:11Out of nowhere, this is tax dollars.
02:12So money goes through pass-throughs, through other pass-throughs, through other pass-throughs, and we lose oversight over it.
02:18And you see that it's going to former Biden officials.
02:21It's going to former Obama officials.
02:23It's going to Democratic donors.
02:25And we're not here saying we want to take money from a left-wing NGO and give to a right-wing NGO.
02:30We want to give it back to the taxpayer.
02:32This is about us being good stewards of American tax dollars without any apology or regret.
02:38That's why President Trump was elected last November, because there are a whole lot of people who maybe they hadn't voted Republican in a long time.
02:46Maybe they didn't even vote for President Trump the first time around in 2016, but they're regretting that vote from 2016, and they were making it right in 2024.
02:53So the one big, beautiful bill gave us the tools to rescind billions of dollars more.
03:00We're seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars they'll get wasted per electric vehicle, as an example of this money that was going through it.
03:08They gave $50 million to a group called Climate Justice Alliance.
03:11They say that climate justice runs through a free Palestine.
03:14The Biden EPA gave $50 million to a group that says that climate justice runs through a free Palestine.
03:20We say that you're going to spend a dollar in the name of remediating an environmental issue, then spend a dollar on remediating an environmental issue.
03:28We say that we can protect the environment and grow the economy.
03:32We want to help grow more basal of power in this country.
03:35So why is it that it took this long for this team to get assembled, to be able to fix the mess that we inherited?
03:44But gosh, we love showing up at our jobs every single day, first thing in the morning, because all day long we get things done for the American taxpayer.
03:52And Congress did its part last week by passing one big, beautiful bill to deliver this accountability and to cut off the Green News scam.
03:59So maybe it's a bad day for Stacey Abrams.
04:03Maybe it's a bad day for all those well-connected Democrats getting paid off.
04:07But you know what?
04:08God bless America.
04:09Because at the end of the day, President Trump is here, J.D. Vance is here, and the greatest cabinet ever assembled to deliver that much-needed and highly-demanded accountability.
