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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Donald Trump is now openly saying he wants to try to send U.S. citizens to prison in El Salvador. |
0:04.9 | We also now have new details on how Trump's trying to remake or break the federal government, |
0:08.6 | including killing the Department of Education. And egg prices are skyrocketing as bird flu rages on with no end in sight, |
0:13.9 | and it's even getting to the point that people are stealing eggs. We're talking about all that and much more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news, |
0:21.3 | how it's being covered and how people are reacting to it, starting with this. |
0:25.2 | We need to talk about Donald Trump's now latest efforts to remake, or depending on who you |
0:29.2 | ask, break the federal government. And while there are fires all over the place, today we're |
0:33.3 | going to be focusing on the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education, |
0:36.5 | and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And I'll start with the EPA, where you now have more |
0:40.4 | than a thousand employees getting an ominous message that they may be fired at any time. |
0:44.4 | With an email going mostly to staff members hired within the past years, saying, as a probationary |
0:48.3 | slash trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you. And adding the |
0:52.1 | process for probationary removal is that you receive a notice of termination and your employment has ended immediately. And as far as |
0:57.2 | who exactly is getting this email, well, while it was meant for people who had worked at the agency |
1:01.0 | less than a year, the number reportedly includes experienced federal workers who had simply taken |
1:05.2 | on new assignments within the agency. With it also reportedly including many employees who were |
1:09.2 | hired under the Biden administration to rebuild the agency following Trump's first term in office. And then notably, with that, many had |
1:14.5 | reportedly been hired to work on programs created by Congress relatively recently, including |
1:18.2 | replacing lead pipes, remediating toxic sites, and funding clean energy projects aimed at reducing |
1:23.4 | the greenhouse gas emissions. Though notably, with all that, you now have the leaders for the |
1:26.8 | American Federation of Government employees, which represents about 8,000 EPA employees, describing |
1:30.9 | this as just the beginning. With Marie Owens Powell, the head of AFG Council 238, telling NBC News, |
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