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>> Well, the data center subject to me is a pretty simple one. If you pick the right location, and it's got to be not every location is perfect for it, but you pick the right location, what it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lower taxes. And the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity so they're not taking it for the grid. It's going to lower the electric costs because they're building electricity and the extra as an example, we talked about this one, I'm very proud of it, it was my idea. They're going to build their own electric producing facility and that electricity that they have left over is going to the grid. It's going to lower the cost of electricity. So if I were a community, I would want the data center. It means jobs, it means income and it means lower taxes.

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I think the prospect of Donald Trump being president would be the gravest threat to our prosperity, our security, and our freedom in my adult lifetime. So that's the thing I would worry most about. Some of you will have seen my statement of regret, expressing my shame with respect to what I did in communication with Mr. Epstein, and that I've said that I'm going to step back from public activities for a time. But I think it's very important to fulfill my teaching obligations. And so with your information, we're going to go forward and talk about the material in class.

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I'm Christina Owayo in Dallas and here are your top stories. Democrats in Michigan are caught up in a $5 billion fraud scheme that was siphoning taxpayer dollars. The scheme was uncovered by House Republicans. The accusations which have sparked outrage center on the discovery of more than 4,000 fake phantom jobs allegedly used to siphon taxpayer dollars into non-existent programs, questionable gender surgeries for prisoners, and dubious arts and culture grants. House GOP investigators claim to have identified the thousands of fake job positions created to justify budget allocations that never materialized into actual employment. Critics argue this was a deliberate tactic to funnel public money back to Democrats bypassing accountability and oversight. This as multiple claims come in over fiscal mismanagement under Democrat control led by Governor Gretchen Whitmer with the Michigan state budget ballooning to more than $82 billion. That's the largest in state history. That's what you need to know in Dallas, Christina Owayo. (upbeat music)

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I don't think people really understand how challenging it is to get a notoriously blue area like Palm Beach County to get on board with renaming the airport in the name of President Donald Trump. I know how hostile it is because I ran for Congress there, so why don't you just explain how this idea came to your mind and what the process was like renaming the airport. Well, I have to start by saying, you know, we're only as good as our village and thank goodness I have a really good one, including my class in the Florida House and our speaker and his chief of staff and everybody who really got on board. You know, in the beginning it was conversation was this has never been done in history. It's not something that we're sure we can do and, you know, we just kept kind of chipping away and figuring out a way to make this happen. You know, before I even brought it to leadership in the House, I spoke to, you know, people in Palm Beach County and then the airport and said, "Listen, this is going to happen in our lifetime." In my opinion, if it happens now while President Trump is in office, it's really just going to bring a lot to our county and lift up our county in an airport that we're supposed to be an international airport, but we're clearly not an international airport. Well, there's plans, of course, from my understanding to expand the airport. Perhaps you can talk about those plans because it is now going to be transformed from my understanding into an international airport with a massive renovation plan. And it seems like the Democrats are trying to dishonestly pin those renovation costs on the president, acting like, oh, it's going to cost this much money to rename things because of the president when they were already planning on doing these massive renovations at Palm Beach International to make it a true international airport because of the international and global significance. Since it now is the hub and the location of Mar-a-Lago and President Trump's golf resorts in Palm Beach County, where we've had global summits with world leaders, President Trump has literally ordered airstrikes, right? He ordered the airstrike, the killing of Qasem Soleimani from Mar-a-Lago. There's so many impactful historical events that have happened there, and there's no reason why it shouldn't be an international airport. And if you're going to have a Palm Beach County airport, which is like one of the tiniest airports in the world, which is why it's such a great airport, you should absolutely name it after a president since it's President Donald J. Trump who put that tiny little airport on the map to begin with. I mean, there's just so much that this will lift up our county. I think I read recently that even just private planes alone in Palm Beach County, we have more air traffic than any other place in the United States. I mean, we have four airports in Palm Beach County. We should be utilizing all four of those airports. I mean, one of the other airports in my district, well, two actually, North County, and there's one in the glades. I mean, we could be using those airports for many of these private planes instead of going to counties on either side of Palm Beach County. So I'm really hoping that, you know, a lot of what this brings to our county helps lift up these airports as well. I mean, the fact that the family has agreed to waive the trademark is amazing. You know, I'm not sure how much you travel throughout the country, but you know that you're probably not going to find anything that says Palm Beach International Airport in any other place in the world, but you definitely going to see something that has a globally recognized name as Trump on a brand. So I think that this will bring huge ... I can't wait to buy merchandise from President at Donald J. Trump International.

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Two F's come to mind. The first being fraud by design. This wasn't an accident. This didn't just happen. It's a system that's designed by the left for people in their social circles. It starts all the way at the top of the federal government with the Obama administration, promulgated even more by the Biden administration. It runs down to the states, to governors across the country, including governors Walt and Governor Mills. And even at the local level, you see the bad actors, you read the headlines, you see what's happening right here in Maine, certainly in Minnesota, and I would agree with what's been said so far that this is just the tip of the iceberg, folks. The other F is financial Armageddon. That's what we're heading for. If you don't think that the Trump administration is serious about getting a handle on this, you're probably on another planet. This is going to have implications for the state of Maine in the billions with a B of dollars. This will spell financial Armageddon for our state. We have got to get a handle on this problem.

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