The Daily Signal - Trump Floats Ending FEMA, Bannon Pleads Guilty, Plastic Straws Return| Feb. 11

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk, business. Will President Trump eliminate FEMA? I'm Elizabeth Mitchell. This is the Daily Signals Top News in 10 for Tuesday, February 11th. President Donald Trump called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a post on truth social Tuesday morning. Trump wrote on his social media platform, FEMA spent tens of millions of dollars in Democrat areas disobeying orders,

Starting point is 00:01:04 but left the people of North Carolina high and dry. It is now under review and investigation. The Biden-run FEMA has been a disaster. FEMA should be terminated. It has been slow and totally ineffective. Individual states should handle storms, et cetera, as they come. Big savings? Far more efficient.

Starting point is 00:01:23 Trump's statement comes as the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday morning it's firing for employees responsible for making payments to house illegal aliens in luxury hotels in New York City. A statement from a DHS spokesperson said, effective immediately FEMA is terminated in New York. the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury New York City hotels for migrants. The four employees being fired include FEMA's chief financial officer, two program analysts, and a grant specialist, according to the spokesperson.

Starting point is 00:01:57 The terminations of the FEMA employees come one day after Elon Musk wrote on X that the Department of Government Efficiency discovered FEMA sent $59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York city to house illegal migrants. Under the leadership of Trump and DHS Secretary Kristy Noem, DHS will not sit idly by and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people, the DHS spokesperson said. Trump ally Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to fraud charges regarding the funding of part of President Donald Trump's border wall. Bannon reached a plea agreement that allows him to avoid jail time in the we-build-the-wall scheme. Bannon will receive a three-year conditional discharge and will not be required to pay restitution.

Starting point is 00:02:44 His plea to a single count of scheme to defraud comes just weeks before his trial was set to begin. Bannon told reporters as he left the courtroom that he felt like a million bucks. The plea deal also bars Bannon from fundraising for or serving as an officer director or any other fiduciary position for any charitable organization with assets in New York State. He cannot use, sell, or possess any data gathered from donors to the We Build the Wall scheme. President Donald Trump signed an executive order bringing back plastic straws on Monday afternoon. His order directed the federal government to stop purchasing paper straws and ensure they are no longer offered in federal buildings. The order says, the irrational campaign against plastic straws has forced Americans to use non-functional paper straws this ends under President Trump. The president also signed an order a lemon.

Starting point is 00:03:37 the Federal Executive Institute, a government program, which he says is designed to provide bureaucratic leadership training. The order directs the Office of Personnel Management to take all necessary steps to terminate the Federal Executive Institute and revokes the appropriate documents. Those were our headlines. We'll get to our news flashes right after this. Pro-life, pro-women conservative and feminist? That's right. We're problematic women. The radical the left does not know what to do with strong independent women who believe in traditional values and love America. So you might say we're problematic to the left narrative of what a woman should be. Here on problematic women, we sort through the news to find the stories that you care about.

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Starting point is 00:05:48 repeated. A report published by Think Tank, the Middle East Forum, shows the United States Agency for international development provided millions of dollars in funding to extremist groups tied to designated terrorist organizations in their allies. Last week, President Donald Trump paused foreign funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development. USAID was found to have given more than $900,000 to a Gaza-based terror charity called Bayotter Association for Environment and Development. The funding began in 2016, but the most recent allocation was made just days before Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. The U.S. Senate voted Monday to advance Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to become President Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence. Her nomination passed the Senate Intelligence Committee with a 9-8 vote along party lines to recommend her confirmation.

Starting point is 00:06:43 On the fence Republicans, Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Todd Young of Indiana both agreed to support her. President Donald Trump met Tuesday with the leader of Jordan, King Abdullah. This comes after Trump has suggested moving Palestinians from Gaza into Jordan and Egypt to rebuild the desecrated region. That's it for today's episode. Thank you for listening to Top News in 10. Please don't forget to subscribe so you never miss one of our episodes. Today's episode was edited by Keith Koffler and produced by Joseph von Spakovsky. Thank you so much for listening. Have a wonderful night and we'll be back with you again tomorrow.

The Daily Signal - Trump Floats Ending FEMA, Bannon Pleads Guilty, Plastic Straws Return| Feb. 11

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