ly the prime minister, but there's nothing that would stop him from being one as soon as they go through the process.

But here are some of the things we know about him. He was a banker, and apparently he spent a lot of time in the UK because he was not only a former central banker for Canada but he was a former central banker for the UK. Interesting. Now here's what one critic on social media said. So this is not representative of anything but one critic's opinion. Somebody named John Paul Berg said about Carney, the new head of Canada, that he doesn't hold elected office, meaning that he's never won an election by the public at large I guess, nor has he lived here in over a decade, meaning Canada. So he hasn't lived in Canada for a decade. He must have moved back recently. And he's a self-described globalist and elitist. I doubt he called himself an elitist, but maybe a globalist. And he's a central banker with a World Economic Forum membership. So that's a lot of red flags. But if that's what Canada wants, all right.

So here's my take, my American take, which is worth basically nothing. I think the Canadians felt they needed a banker because if you put Justin Trudeau up against Trump, doesn't it look like a mismatch? Like there's one serious business person, Trump, and then there's Trudeau who's worried about his pronouns and such. So I think they needed to get a serious business person. So you know, banker fits that.

But here's what he did on his first day so far. Carney said, quote, "My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect." Okay, first day of work, not so good. Do you think respect is the problem here? When the United States is trying to get rid of fentanyl, is the problem that we don't respect you enough? When Trump says he wants Canada to be a 51st state, is it because we don't respect it or it just seems like it'd be a good idea? Now he definitely didn't respect Trudeau, but did Trudeau earn his respect? I would say maybe no. So if he's focusing on tariffs as related to Americans showing him respect, not the best first day, because that doesn't seem like anything that's going to work out for him. We're not really operating on the respect basis. It's pretty much, you know, our interests and their interests, and that's about it.

Well, Secretary of State Rubio has announced that he's cut 83% of the USAID budget. 83%. The rest would be absorbed into the State Department. And he's canceled 5,200 of the USAID contracts. Now that's all good news, right? Yay, this big pot of money that we thought was being used in ways that maybe we didn't agree with, and there was a lot of it, and it got cut. Yay. Except none of it's true. It's just not true. This is what Thomas Massie explains. The Congress is putting together a continuing resolution, which is what they do when they can't decide on a budget. They just say, I guess the budget will just remain the same. So the budget they're going to pass will fully fund USAID. None of this is real. It's not real, according to Thomas Massie.

And Massie points out that the Supreme Court ruled last week that it requires an act of Congress to defund these programs. So not only is there no legal way to defund them, but the continuing resolution that Congress does every time because they can't do their job of making a budget will just fully fund it. Now I don't know if you can fire all the people so even if they have a budget they can't spend it. Is there some workaround? But my head just exploded. And Thomas Massie is the only one who's on this, the whole continuing resolution problem. Literally the continuing resolution is when the Congress says, oh we don't know how to do our basic job. We don't know how to do our basic job, which is make a budget that works. So we're not going to do it. So we're just going to kick the can down the road and bankrupt the country with unworkable debt. And then when we finally make some what looks like progress with DOGE, they just bulldoze it like it didn't even matter.

Now I suppose there are some surprises ahead. You know, I don't think DOGE is going to roll over. I don't think Trump's going to roll over. But it kind of looks like it didn't work. I mean, tentatively speaking. That's not my final opinion. I'd like to be wrong about it. I'd love to be wrong about it. But when was the last time Massie was wrong about something like this? Never. This is his domain. If he says this isn't real, I'm going to take his word for it over Rubio. And I hate it. Absolutely hate it. But we'll see where this goes.

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice under Trump is investigating the price of eggs. The Department of Justice. What do they think they're going to find? So I guess there's some concern that maybe the big egg producers are artificially keeping the price high, which means, you know, artificially keeping the supply low. I don't know, maybe. But it seems like it's simpler than that. It seems like there's just not enough eggs. Now maybe there's something else there. They wouldn't launch this investigation unless they meant it. But the Wall Street Journal is reporting on that. But apparently eggs are expected to rise by more than 40% in 2025. Another 40% for eggs. Wow. Anyway, I guess we'll find out what's up with eggs. But I think that's just a very narrow look. They're just going to look at whether there's gouging basically. That sounds like Biden.

Now here's my take on it. You know, I've looked into this whole chicken problem and I think where everything went wrong is where they allowed the chickens to work from home. Yeah, that's all I had. That's all I had. They shouldn't let the chickens work from home. The remote working chickens. I don't think they're laying as many eggs. I think they're goofing off. Yeah, don't let them work from home.

Anyway, Howard Lutnick is talking about Trump's tariffs and specifically the ones on China and Mexico and Canada. And he says if fentanyl ends, meaning those countries step it up and keep it from coming int