s and Representative Kat Cammack, they're introducing a bill to defund NPR because it's a liberal propaganda network, they say. Now I don't know if that means NPR would go out of business or where they just have less funding, but I don't care about the NPR part of the story. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. Here's the bigger picture. Trump has created a situation in which everyone in the government in every way—from Congress to every one of the cabinet positions to all of his appointments—they're competing to see who can do the best job of reducing costs. Did I just tell you that Trump reframing a hot war into a business deal is the greatest thing anybody ever did in history? If Trump pulls off reframing government as a competition among peers to see who can cut the government cost the most—standing ovation. Standing ovation.

Now to be clear and to be fair, I'm not excited about the cost cutting yet. I think there's going to be a whole bunch of, we thought we could cut that but we didn't get as much. You know, where people will argue about whether the numbers are accurate. And even though DOGE is showing exactly what they're doing and they publish it, so there's a lot of messiness to come. But the hard part, the hard part was the reframe. He turned it from a bunch of people just pursuing their own self-interest in the government—what was the old model—into literally they're publicly competing to see who can cut the most fat and waste and fraud out of their own departments or their own domains. When have you ever seen that? Never. Never. You've never seen it. It's never been done in the history of the whole freaking world. It's never been done and you're watching it being done right in front of you.

Have I ever mentioned there are some things that America can do that nobody can come close? I have plenty of criticism for my own country as a patriot. You know, I love it of course. And we're not perfect. We make a lot of false starts. We've done a lot of things we wish maybe we hadn't done, etc. But there are just some things nobody else can do. Europe can't do that. China can't do that. Japan can't do that. Name a country that can do that. Even when Milei did it, I don't know that he got everybody to compete. I think maybe he just took the chainsaw. I could be wrong. He might have actually pulled that off in Argentina. But this is incredible. If you think of it in terms of the reframe, then suddenly it goes from just a thing they're trying to do to, holy cow, are you kidding me? He pulled off that, making them compete to see who can cut the cost the most. Unbelievable. Wow.

Let's compare that to the main focus under the prior administration. So the main focus, the thing that gets you attention, the thing that will get you the most praise from the president is how you cut costs and made it work. What would have been the same kind of focus, different focus, but what would have been the Biden focus? I'm not making this up. This was the Biden focus. It was you got promoted if you cared the most about people's genitalia, what color the genitalia is, and what is being done with it. That was the Biden focus. How'd that work out for you? Did the country get really better, a lot better, when the focus was genitalia, what color it was and what it was being used for? That was your government. We actually lived through that. I mean just think about that. We went from caring about your genitalia and everybody else's I guess and how it all fit together to competing to reduce waste and fraud in the government. Talk about the golden age. Oh my God.

Meanwhile, case in point, Lee Zeldin of the EPA plans to cut 65% of it. In other words, he's competing. He's publicly competing to see how much he can cut in his own domain. Unbelievably so good.

Over at HUD, the housing group there, HUD, according to Just the News, HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced yesterday I guess they're going to terminate some rules that had been terminated under the Trump first term but then Biden put them back in place. And I guess it was a rule—I'm just going to paraphrase because it gets a little technical. The rule was we can't build a house for you unless your genitalia is the right color and it's being used for the right things. Okay, I'm probably exaggerating a little bit but that's basically what it was. It was sort of DEI in housing. So the federal government put restrictions on what you could and could not do because it had to be diverse and inclusive and it created a whole bunch of obstacles to building anything. So it probably just made the cost of housing go up because it created a situation where a lot of people would say, I don't even know how to satisfy all those rules so I'm not even going to bother. So getting rid of burdensome rules doesn't mean that you're getting rid of diversity, doesn't mean that you're getting rid of anything you wanted. It just means that if the states want to put those rules on themselves I guess they can. But he's just saying that the federal government isn't going to prevent you from building homes. How great is that? The federal government is not going to prevent you from building homes. Thank you. I just want the federal government not to prevent me because the states will do a good job of making sure my home doesn't fall down on its own, you know, that it's safe, it's built in a place I can insure it. I mean all working out in the states. So that's good.

Meanwhile there's a new Trump pardon czar. So somebody to help him decide who to pardon. And who he picked was Alice Marie Johnson, who you might remember was pardoned or did she come out during the First Step thing? I think she was just pardoned, right? And she was a famous pardon and she's a Black woman who I think was involved in some drug stuff way long ago but was in jail for what was an unreas