Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, February 22, 2025

Episode Date: February 22, 2025

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Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. Cash confirmed. IRS agents fired. Ukrainian minerals and Team USA versus Canada. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be with your message of the day.

But first, Cash Patel has been confirmed to be the new head of the FBI. Cash said, this is before he was nominated in an interview. that if he were ever running the FBI, he would shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. He then said, I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in the building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops.

You're cops. Go be cops. Go chase down murderers and rapists and drug dealers and violent offenders. Cash was confirmed 51 to 49. Susan Collins from Maine and Murkowski from Alaska were the two Republicans who voted against him. 6,000 IRS employees are being fired. This would eliminate about 6% of the agency's workforce. These are all probationary employees.

So these are people who have been at their job for less than a year. But that's not enough. Trump's new Commerce Secretary said the ultimate goal is to get rid of the IRS entirely. Also yesterday, Trump's National Economic Council Director said the same thing. The goal is to eliminate the income tax and replace it with tariff revenue. So we have Trump firing 6,000 IRS agents. Remember it was Joe Biden who wanted to increase the number of agents in the IRS by 80,000. I'll mention a quick Doge update. Trump threw out the idea of a Doge dividend where 20% of all Doge savings goes right to the American people.

If Doge cuts $2 trillion from federal spending, 20% of that is $400 billion. There's 75 million taxpayers. It's $5,000 per person. The rest would go down to pay the debt. Some White House officials have told Ukraine to stop bad-mouthing America, stop bad-mouthing Trump, and also to sign that deal and hand over half of Ukraine's mineral wealth to the United States. Mike Walls, our national security director, said some of the rhetoric coming out of Kiev and the insults to President Trump are unacceptable. Scott Bessent, our Treasury Secretary, was just in Ukraine, where he told Zelensky that half of Ukraine's mineral wealth would be a nice repayment for all the money we've spent in Ukraine. team USA versus Canada hockey finals last night amazing game went into overtime unfortunately Canada won three to two Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter you can't take our country and you can't take our game

it's going to be interesting to see if Trump lets Canada compete as its own country in international competitions or not like Puerto Rico has its own national baseball team so will Trump let Canada still compete as Canada in the Olympics this might be Canada's last international competition ever I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next. The best coast just got better. Introducing Quantum of the Seas sailing from L.A. this fall.

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contrived, foolish, and peddled by activists ignorant of American history. The country is under assault, the poltroons say. The Constitution is being trashed, all because President Trump appointed a billionaire to analyze wasteful federal spending. So here's the truth. What Mr. Trump has done is the same thing FDR and JFK did. No difference whatsoever. President Roosevelt brought in a fellow New Yorker named Harry Hopkins in 1933 to advise him on how to deal with the Great Depression. Hopkins had enormous power and even lived in the White House during World War II.

Roosevelt also hired some of his Harvard pals to assist Hopkins. All were unelected and not confirmed by the Senate. President Kennedy followed FDR's playbook. He brought in his Boston buddies, Dave Powers, Kenny O'Donnell, Theodore Sorensen. Recently, there is compelling evidence that White House Chief of Staff Ron Clayne actually ran the entire country under an often confused Joe Biden. Do you think the anti-Must Trump cadre cares about all of that? They don't. Most have no interest in pursuing the truth.

it's way too hard. Now, I don't know, Elon Musk. This Doge business might pay off. It might not. But it deserves a chance. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Okay, let's get to The Mail. We got Louis Buckeye, Arizona. Hey, Bill. I've heard USAID was established through executive order. Will you confirm? No, I will not, Louis, because it's not true. 1961, JFK president, Congress established USAID.

We need to give order involved. Gary Holt, Anchorage, Alaska. President Trump wants to disband the Department of Education. Why did he bother appointing Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education? Because he can't disband it. Congress, the only one can. Now, he could slim it down, and that's what Linda's going to do. But he can't chuck it.

Jury. Bill, I don't get the Putin thing. Why rule NATO membership out even before starting negotiations? Because Putin wouldn't show up unless you did. You have to take NATO off the table for Ukraine or Putin's not showing up. You've got to get them to the table. And that was never going to happen anyway in Ukraine, NATO. It's too provocative to the Russian system.

Scott Malone, Ellsworth, Maine. How do you see the Ukraine border ending up at Trump and Putin come to a ceasefire? Ukraine will lose some territory, backwater mostly, but it'll lose some. Putin has to save face. That's what's likely to happen. Mary Loftus, Lenox of Kansas, Catholic charities received over $2 billion from the U.S. government. So Pope Francis is taking billions from the American taxpayer. That's not even close to be in truth, Mary.

It's not even in the universe of truthfulness. So Catholic charities receive $5.5 million in 2024 fiscal year. Not $2 billion. $5.5 million. That money was earmarked for humanitarian purposes, food, shelter, blankets. Now, Mary, if you would do me a colossal favor and just tell me who told you that Catholic charity's got $2 billion. I would like to know that.

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might not know democrats may have finally found a person they hate as much as donald trump and his name is elon musk the south african born billionaire has enraged liberal lawmakers like bernie sanders and Elizabeth Warren, because he wants to analyze taxpayer dollars to cut wasteful spending. The Department of Government of Efficiency, or Doge, is unlawful, critics say. Elon Musk is running the White House, is the other lament. What they failed to consider is that Democratic icons, John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt, did exactly the same thing. President Trump is doing. FDR called his unelected inner circle the brain trust. The cadre was

responsible for much of the legislation of the first 100 days, which ended in June 1933. During his first presidential campaign, Roosevelt assembled a group of academics and intellectuals to counsel him on policy. Members included three Columbia University professors, Raymond Moli, Exford Guy, Tugwell, and Adolf Burley. It also included a few big fundraisers for Roosevelt. Now, these unknown men were instrumental in creating dozens of government agencies, including the Social Security Board, Securities and Exchange Commission, federal housing administration, the FCC, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, better known as the FDIC. All of that created by unelected officials.

Three decades later, President John F. Kennedy had his own brain trust. The inner circle included his brother Bobby, Kenneth O'Donnell, a special assistant, Dave Powers, another special assistant, and his speechwriter Theodore Sorensen. None of them were appointed, none of them confirmed. But now, 61 years after the assassination of JFK, Donald Trump, has named Alon Musk as a, quote, special government employee. Well, all hell is breaking loose. Why? Because of Trump hatred. That's why. Let's give this Doge a chance. Back after this. This MailChimp forific jingle is brought to you by MailChimp. MailChimp your marketing with

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