“President Trump just dismantled the fake media narrative on the funding freeze,” Assistant News Director Eric Daugherty at Florida’s Voice reported Wednesday.
“I am restating right now to correct any confusion that the media has purposefully and, somehow, for whatever reason, created,” Pres. Trump told reporters, setting the record straight about his previous executive order putting a pause on some government spending:
“Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare have not been affected by any action we’re taking in any way, shape or form.
“We are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste, fraud and abuse.”
Trump went on to detail some of the illicit, unauthorized, and unnecessary government spending his administration has stopped:
“In that process, we identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. Fifty million. And, you know what’s happened to them? They’ve used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?
“We’ve stopped an attempt to make an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement.
“We canceled $181 million in DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) training contracts. This is just for the training of people in DEI, which has been terminated and completely terminated.
“And we paused $1.7 billion in unauthorized payments to foreign organizations, including stopping more than $40 million that was on its way out the door to the very corrupt World Health Organization, which has not done its job and not done it properly.
“We also blocked $45 million for diversity scholarships in Burma. Forty-five, that’s a lot of money for diversity scholarships in Burma.”
BREAKING: President Trump just dismantled the fake media narrative on the funding freeze.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025
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