DoD announces $580 million cut in Wasteful Spending plus the F-47 Fighter a New Era of Air Dominance

Published Mar 22, 2025, 8:20 AM
  1. Media Criticism:

    • We criticize the New York Times and the Drudge Report for allegedly spreading false information about Elon Musk being briefed on top-secret China war plans at the Pentagon.
    • The Pentagon's chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, refuted these claims, calling the report fake and emphasizing that Musk's visit was related to technological discussions and defense spending cuts.
  2. Defense Spending Cuts:

    • The Department of Defense announced a cut of $580 million in wasteful spending, including over-budget projects and grants that do not align with current priorities.
    • Specific examples include an HR software project and various grants related to decarbonizing Navy ships and equitable AI models.
  3. New Fighter Jet Announcement:

    • President Trump announced the development of the F-47, the world's first sixth-generation fighter jet, emphasizing its advanced capabilities and the importance of maintaining air dominance.
    • The contract for the jet was awarded to Boeing, and the project is expected to bring significant jobs and technological advancements to the U.S.
  4. Immigration and Deportation:

    • We discuss the deportation of 261 criminal migrants to El Salvador, highlighting the use of the Alien Enemies Act to expedite the process.
    • The author praises the cooperation between the U.S. and El Salvador in handling these deportations and criticizes activist judges who attempt to block such actions.
  5. Political Commentary:

    • The author comments on the Democratic Party, describing it as lost and radical, and criticizes Senator Mark Kelly for trading in his Tesla as a protest against Elon Musk and President Trump.
    • We also touch on the broader political landscape, including the influence of the deep state and the importance of strong national security measures.

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All right, So there are a lot of headlines that come out and they're misleading on Donald Trump. Then there are some that are just pure government propaganda from the deep State and just straight up lies. And I'm going to start calling more of them out when it happens, so you know what's going on. And a great example of this is the scumbaggery that's taking place at the New York Times. Now, I want to be clear, I expect this from the New York Times, okay, but we should still call it out. The New York Times is saying that Musk is going to quote get the Pentagon's top secret China war plans and that there's a big hunt for leaks. Now, this type of scumbaggery for New York Times I expect.

Right, I have a very low bar.

Of expectations in media, but I am going to call out the Drudge Report, Matt Drudge and the Drudge Report because they're the ones putting this propagan out there. I don't know who broke Matt Drudge, but Matt used to be a guy that was a conservative. It's like government communist propaganda at the Drudge Report. I used to look at the Drudge Report every single day before my show for twenty years.

I never look at it.

In fact, today the only reason I knew about this is because someone sent it to me and they said, what the hell happened to Matt Drudge.

I'm like, he has Trump arrangement syndrome.

So he throws this out there with a picture of Elon Musk with the Chinese flag behind him. Now again, I expect this the New York Times, but Matt Dridge deserves to get owned for this because it is disgusting. Now, if you click on the link, there's two different articles. One of them is Politico and it's the headline is Elon Musk threatens Pentagon leakers after New York Times report on secret China China war briefing, they will be found. Warren just President Donald Trump's billionaire advisor as the White House slashes out at the media. Now, let me actually tell you the real story now so you understand why this is actual crap. Depending on spokesman is a guy by the name of Sean Parnell. I know Sean. He's a great guy and he wasn't gonna let this slide either.

And this is why I love him. Being at the Pentagon.

He has called out the New York Times for this fake report on Elon Musk being briefed on the China war plans. The Pentagon chief spokesman said this again on Friday morning, blasting the New York Times report is fake, after the newspaper claimed that Musk was being briefed later that day at the Pentagon on potential war with China. That was not why I was going to Pentagon. That's not why the man in charge of the Pentagon headset that was having him come over. Parnell dismissed the story as garbage in an interview. He said this, and I want you to hear it from Fox and Friends as he was asked about exactly what's happening.

Yeah, on the record, that is completely fake. And let me show you this. This started with this New York Times headline and they since changed it. But Musk set to get access to top secret US plan for potential war with China. This is egregious. This is fake. The New York Times should retract this story. Five anonymous sources. I've been on Bilat calls with the Secretary.

I see how.

Hard he's working to implement the President's agenda and pursue peace through strength. This type of garbage from the New York Times undermines that process and undermines our mission. It shouldn't happen at all. Elon Musk is just coming over here for a visit again. He's he's an innovator. This is a guy that shot a rocket at thousands of miles an hour, that's thousands of pounds, and as it landed back on the Earth, it was grabbed out of mid air by a giant robot arm. We want a guy like Elon Musk in the defense departments to help us come up with creative solutions to the problems that we faced of the day. But this article, this article is ridiculous. It's fake and I can confirm that on the record.

Now the part that you just heard there, and this goes back to what he was saying.

I agree.

Somebody decided to just straight up live. That's what this is. It's a lie. And they decided, no, we're just gonna lie, and we're going to do a good job of lying, and we're going to make up something because we know in a vance right that this is happening. We know in at vance that this is that Musk is coming over, so let's fabricate something out of thin air. Now, they already had to change, as you heard him mention there the headline that was something that had to change. And when Sean put it out early Friday morning, he put this is one hundred percent fake news, just brazenly and maliciously wrong. Elon Musk is a patriot. We were proud to have him at the Pentagon. There was nothing behind this. Now, what was actually happening and what were they talking about? Some of the things that withou technology, but it was really about something else. And this was the way the deep state is going to continue to fight back. The DoD is going to cut five hundred and eighty million in spending. And it was announced by Pete edge Seth at the Pentagon, and so he put out a video and he's like, we're going to do more of this, and the word got out that Musk was going to come over. He was going to talk about technology, he was going to talk about rockets. He was also going to talk about DOGE and spending. Right, so head Seth comes out and says, look, as part of the defense ongoing effort, we're to cut wasteful spending. The Defense Secretary signed a memo directing the termination more than five hundred and eighty million in programs, contracts, and grants. This is the headline that the New York Times doesn't want to tell you about. So instead of telling you about it, what do they do? They make up a story that he's going to be briefed on China war plans, which was never ever going to happen. What did Pete say about saving you the five hundred and eighty million.

Listen, everybody, we're back with another quick update on our efforts to cut wasteful spending and cut it quickly at the Department of Defense so we get the dollars to the things that the warfighters need. So today I'm signing a memo directing the termination of over five hundred and eighty million dollars in DoD contracts, in grants that do not match the priorities of this president or this department. In other words, they are not a good use of taxpayer dollars. Ultimately, that's who funds us, and we owe you transparency and making sure we're using it well. So here's quickly what we're canceling today. There's an HR software effort that was supposed to take a year and cost thirty six million dollars, but instead it's taken eight years and is currently two hundred and eighty million dollars over budget, not delivering what it was supposed to. So that's seven hundred and eighty percent over budget. We're not doing that anymore. Number two, another batch of DoD grants three hundred and sixty million dollars worth, this time decarbonizing emissions from Navy ships, part of the Obama Biden Green Agenda. That's six million bucks five point two million dollars on something that would diversify and engage the Navy by engaging underrepresented BIPOC students and scholars. Another nine million dollars at a university to approach equitable AI and machine learning models. I need lethal machine learning models, not equitable machine learning models. And number three in our ongoing effort to cut wasteful spending on external consulting services, thirty million bucks in contracts with Gartner and McKinsey. It's it purchasing unused licenses. So when you add it all up, five hundred and eighty million dollars in DoD contracts and grants. DOGE is helping us cut today.

What does that bring our total number up?

Total cuts running total eight hundred million dollars in wasteful spending canceled over the first few weeks as DoD partners with DOGE here to make sure that our warfighters have what they need by cutting the waste, fraud and abuse.

Waste fraud and abuse cutting it. So he's doing this, Musk is coming over and the New York Times and Report decided to lie in Slanders saying Elon Musk is getting a briefing on the China war plans.

That is how evil these people are. Do not fall for it.

And I hope you'll take this show, and I hope you'll share it with your family and your friends, put on social media so they know the real story. Because this is starting to go viral that Elon Musk is like now getting the war plans for China, which is not happening. And the fact I'm having to spend this much time talking about it tells you just how effective the left is when it comes to line and trying to derail what Musk is doing, what Trump is doing, what Headset is doing, and cutting Now there's also another story that you need to know about that deals with national security and the Pentagon. Right, so all these cuts are happening, and all the slander and attacks against Elon Musk and claiming he's getting war planning for China to try to start World War three, that's actually all I So you want to know what the media is not having to cover because they're covering this lie and putting out this state the deep state sponsored propaganda. President Trump came out and like no one's talking about this and announced the F forty seven. It is the world's first sixth generation fighter jet, not in America the world, and he announced it from the Oval Office. This should be big deal because the US Air Force will produce the world's first six generation fighter jet, named the F forty seven. And here's what President Trump said in the Oval.

I'm thrilled to announce that, at my direction, the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world's first sixth generation fighter jet, number six sixth generation. Nothing in the world comes even close to it. And it'll be known as the F forty seven. The General's picked a title, and it's a beautiful number, F forty seven. It's something the likes of which nobody has seen before. In terms of all of the attributes of a fighter jet, there's never been anything even close to from speed to maneuverability to what it can have to payload.

And this has been in the works for a long period of time.

After a rigorous and thorough competition between some of America's top aerospace companies, the Air Force is going to be awarding the contract for the next generation air dominance platform to Boeing.

As you know, was highly competed for. There was a lot of competition.

Generals, and it's been going on for a long time, very tough competition. But this plane is produced numbers that nobody's ever seen before. The Air forty seven will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built. An experimental version of the plane has secretly been flying for almost five years, and we're confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation.

There's no other nation. We know every other.

Plane, I've seen every one of them, and it's not even close as the next level.

You know, level five is good. This is level six.

They say the F forty seven is equipped with state of the arts stealth technology. It's virtually unseeable and unprecedented power.

It's got the most power of any jet of its kind ever made.

Maneuverability likewise is there's never been anything like it. Despite the power and speed. Its speed is top over two, which is something that you don't hear very often. America's enemies will never see it coming. Hopefully we won't have to use it for that purpose, but you have to have it, and if it ever happens, they won't know what the hell hit them.

Now, there's a couple of takeaways from what President Trump said there. At number one, you may have noticed f forty seven, he's the forty seventh president U s it's America after being number forty five. I love that that's not by accident. I don't think, okay. Number one number two, Trump said the jet had been the works for a long period of time and there's been a lot of competition. That's what he wants from America's top airspace companies. He said, the Air Force has a word of the contract to Boeing. Now, why is this important Because it's going to bring a lot of jobs into this country. That is something that he's been very vocal about that if you're getting big contracts from America and our government, then damn it, you better do the work in America. And he said, look, this is the next generation of air dominance and our platform, and we're going to do it.

Here.

One of the statements he said, he said, quote the forty seven will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built.

That's amazing.

He added that the experimental version of the Planet's secret had been flying for almost five years, so there's a lot of technology that's obviously working. We're moving forward quickly, and things that were confident that it massively overpowers the capability of any other nation. Translation, this is going to be the last generation of fighter jet in China, he said. They F forty seven is equipped with say the art stealth technologies, virtually unseeable and unprecedented power, so that again should scare the hell out of people in the Middle East and also China. He said American enemies will never see it coming. I couldn't agree with him more. He also said, hopefully we won't have to use it for that purpose, but you have to have it, and if it ever happens, they won't know what the hell hit them aim into that. This goes back to his policy of power through strength, right, Like, you have power through strength.

When you have these things.

Nine nine percent of the time, you don't have to use them because the enemy knows you have them.

Now.

The Trump also said the plane would fly with quote many drones, adding that something is something that no other plane can do.

So it's not just this plane.

It's like a leader of the pack technology where you've got this plane and then you've we've got a bunch of drones that are unmanned that can go in and hit stealthy, lethal attacks anywhere in the world. He said that this new fleet of planes will be built and in the air during his administration over the next couple of years. So that's another thing, like he's like, look, we're not waiting around.

I got four years.

I got to make sure this becomes mainstream in the next couple of years. We need to do this because China is a threat and we need to have something that will make them think twice before they do crazy things, for example, like maybe try to invade Taiwan. The President didn't say that, but I'm it's clear that he's thinking about things like that he's singing about Russia, he's thing about Ukraine, he's thinking about Iraq, he's singing about Iran, certainly with the Iran nuclear issue that we have right now. And he said the jet would ensure that the US continue to dominate the skies. That's what this is really all about for him. This is to make sure that we don't fall behind. Because under the last administration, we knew that we he had stopped our exploration of incredible fighter jets and dominance in the air, and that China was doing some pretty amazing things for their country and Joe Biden was not fighting back. So this is part of this is correcting course and basically saying like, what the hell were you guys doing?

Now?

I do believe that Joe Biden was compromise. I do believe that he couldn't stand up to China. And why do I say that? Because the big guy was on the take and he was selling out to the Chinese Communist government and it was obvious his son was on the take. Could that put in our national security at risk? You better believe it. And so the President inherited an awkward moment where it's like, wait, we're not ready, we're not that advance. We're not dominating the skies like we used to, and so the President said we got to do this now. You also may have noticed the President did not reveal the price of the jet, and I do think that that was probably on purpose, because there's certain things. It's like, it doesn't really matter when you're trying to die dominate the skies through peace, and these planes cost nothing compared to what it costs if you go into a war. And so this is part of that arms race that Ronald Reagan also understood. Interestingly enough, the arms race then was against two Russia, and that's a lot of what we're having to deal with right now. Trump also talking about this contract and again saying it's a historic investment or defense industry base, helping to keep quote America at the cutting edge of aerospace and technology.

We're not sending stuff overseas anymore, right.

He said his allies want to buy the plane, which could be toned down versions was another way he described it. So we're gonna pay for this, We're gonna get them up and going. We're gonna have an opportunity for some of our allies to have some of these toned down versions, so they don't have the best But according to Ruders all Right, the engineering and manufacturing development contract is worth over twenty billion dollars. Now Boeing stands to make hundreds of billions of dollars over the contract some multi decade lifespan. The program will replaced Lockey Martin's F twenty two Raptor headsets. By the way, he spoke after the President, calling it a big day for our war fighters, saying, quote, this is a big day for our country, a big day in the.

World, and it is a.

Big day for the President, saying thank you for your leadership, your clarity, and we're going to America is going to have generations in the future of air dominance because of this sixth generation fighter headsets, said, the jet sends a very direct, quote unquote clear message to our allies that we're not going anywhere and to our enemies that we can and we will be able to project power around the globe for generations to come. Now, this is really important for our allies like Israel, because Israel needs new technology and we know this. So this was an historic investment in American military. It was a historic investment in America's industrial base, and it was an historical investment, I would say, in American industry in general. This is bringing it back to the US. Well done by the President. And by the way, I go back to the name of this thing, it's pretty bad a the F forty seven. It is the world's first six generation fighter. In essence, it's named after the Donald Trump for his leadership, because Joe Biden sure as hell wasn't going to do this or the Democratic Party.

All right, I want to move on to something else real quick.

It is truly amazing to see how much the left is willing to fight for hardcore criminals right now because they hate losing prospective voters, even if they're criminals who they are hoping to give amnesty. Two perfect example of this is Marco Rubio coming out Sancretary of State celebrating deportations after a judge fails to help a the trendd Araguru criminal gang that was getting hammered by the Trump administration and getting sent back to their home country. Now, this story has gone viral because of the video showing these gang members. President Donald Trump's deputies deported two hundred and sixty one criminal migrants. These are people with like hardcore criminal records to distend tention centers in Al Salvador, beating a US judge's desperate attempt to try to use law fair to block the international enforcement of the nation's immigration laws. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked the president of El Salvador for accepting the two hundred and thirty eight Venezuelan migrants, saying this, we have sent two dangerous top MS thirteen leaders plus twenty one of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador, also is promised by Trump. We sent over two hundred and fifty alien enemy members of that gang I mentioned earlier, which El Salvador has agreed to hold, and they're very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayers dollars. The president there is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he is also a great friend of the United States.

Thank you.

That coming from Marco Rubio, accompanied by the video showing these gang members being accepted in El Salvador, which was just amazing. Now, how is this happening? And I want you to understand like the strategy behind this, Okay, Trump is using seventeen to ninety eight Alien Enemies Act to speed the deportations of Venezuelan criminals pass pro immigration lawsuits. On Saturday, for example, US sister judged James Busberg tried to block the reparation of the migrants. Politico reported this way, saying, quote, a federal judge is ordered an immediate hold on efforts by President Donald Trump to quickly deport Venezuelan nationals under rarely use wartime powers intended to resist a foreign invasion. By the way, I think twelve million to twenty million people coming into America that's an invasion.

That's a foreign invasion. Just want to be clear about that.

I think that would meet the criteria quote and demand the return of planes already headed to Central America. On Sunday, Trump's Stempantes asked a higher court to overturn this activist judge's protection for the migrants. The policy of sending migrants to in between countries is dubbed a safe third country policy and allows the United States to quickly deport migrants from countries that refuse to accept the reparation of their migrants citizens. Trump established the policy in his first term but it was immediately discarded by the pro migration, anti deportation officials working for President Joe Biden. Several other countries, by the way, including Guatemala and Panama, have also signed the Safe Third Country deals with Rubio's Department of State. They described the deal this way. Today, the first two hundred and thirty eight members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, the trendy Aragua, arrived in our country. This is the again, this is coming from the leader, and it's amazing that the president is coming out and saying this, saying quote. They were immediately transferred to ce cot or Sea Talk, the Terrorism Confinement Center for a period of one year, which is renewable. The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for US over time. These actions, combined with the production are already being generated by more than forty thousand inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program will help make our prison system self sustainable. As of today, it costs two hundred million dollars per year. On this occasion, the US has also sent twenty three MS thirteen members wanted by salvadorianjusice, including two ringleaders, one of them is a member of the criminal organization's highest structure. This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS thirteen, including its former and new members, their money, their weapons, their drugs, their hideouts, their collaborators, and their sponsors. As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime, but this time we are also helping our allies, making our prison systems self sustainable and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place, all in a single action. May God bless Al Salvador, the president of the country rights, and may God bless the United States. This is incredible that we are witnessing this many and I look, I want to know who the activist judges are, I really do. I want to know who they are. I want to know why they like, what they think. I want to know who our enemies are. And what you're watching right now is the El Salvador President, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump all getting together and they all are are working to stop these killers, to stop these rapists, to stop the drug traffickers, the sex trafficking, the fetanol that's killing somebody's like, this is what they're doing, and I absolutely love them for this, and this is what Donald Trump's doing. Now, this goes back to something I mentioned earlier, and it goes back to where I said about Democrats are completely lost because Democratic Party is dead. They're Marxist or socialists or communists are masking around.

They don't know what to do.

Let me give you an example of just how radical they are and how lost they are. Senator Mark Kelly, who's a Democrat from Arizona, received a wave of criticism this week in when he announced his plans to trade in his Tesla in protests of Elon Muskin President Trump. Kelly shared a video on x in which he pointed at his Tesla, saying he was driving to work in it for the final time.

Quote.

When I bought this thing, I didn't think it was going to become a political issue. He claimed that each time he has driven the electric vehicle in the past sixty days or so, it reminds me of just how much damage Elon Muskin Donald Trump is doing to our country. The senator then said it was time for an upgrade. Elon Musk kind of turned out to be an a whole, He said, the whole word. And I don't want to be driving a car built in designed by an a whole.

I guess he said the whole.

Social media users users, by the way, went after Kelly and his post. One person running, so you are so brave, look at you, Captain America right here everyone. Another one said do you think Elon cares? He already made the profit off you? Now you're taking a wasteful loss on your purchase price, just like a typical political politician to waste money. Couldn't agree with that one as well. Another person asked, can I have it? My truck broke down and I could really use the vehicle, just saying some Americans don't have the choice to give up their vehicle because they don't like the owner of the car company. Another said I'm sorry you hate America so much, Very sad. Another one said, but not giving up your ex account hum, referring to also Elon musk owning X. Let's see your climate friendly news Chevy Tahoe. Nice choice, by the way, you did you fly private to Ukraine last week? Another user replied to the Centator's post about him going last week to Ukraine. Now Kelly's announcement, by the way, was one of the latest examples of leftists virtues claiming to trade in or sell their teslasm protests a Musk and Trump. It just makes me laugh. This is the Democratic Party right now. They care more about selling a tesla and virtue signaling they actually.

Do about keeping you safe.

Pam Bondi, by the way, putting it in perspective, saying uh as she put it, she slammed the DC trial judge, you blocked Trump's using Alien Enemies Act to deport these hardcore gang members. In a press release from the Department of Justice, Bondi issue a statement the US District judge had supported TDA terrorism over the safety of Americans.

Think about that.

You have radical leftist judges that are willing to put terrorists ahead of American citizens. Never forget who the Democratic Party is. Make sure you share this podcast wherever you can on social media and I will see you back here tomorrow.

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