President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 22, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
"Twenty-five million dollars to promote biodiversity conservation and socially responsible behavior in Colombia. This is Colombia, South America, not Columbia University. Of course, that might be worse. … Forty million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
"Forty-two million for social and behavior change in Uganda. Ten million for Mozambique medical male circumcisions. Why are we going to Mozambique to do circumcisions?" Trump asked, before continuing to rattle off a handful of other pricey initiatives funded by taxpayers uncovered by DOGE.
'SAVED THE COUNTRY': CPAC ATTENDEES SEE SILVER LINING AFTER ELON MUSK'S DOGE SPEECH
President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 22, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the vault in 1943, which was followed by Treasury Secretary William Simon opening the vault to journalists and lawmakers in 1974 and again during the first Trump administration when Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and lawmakers, including Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, inspected the vault.
"We are also going to Fort Knox. I'm going to go with Elon. And would anybody like to join us? Because we want to see if the gold is still there. We want to see," Trump said.
President Donald Trump attends the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 22, 2025. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)
Trump ended his first full month back in the White House this week, which has included a breakneck pace of executive orders and actions.
He took a victory lap for his whirlwind first month, touting in his speech the administration's work to end the "weaponization" of the government under the former Biden administration, his plan to soon impose reciprocal tariffs on foreign trading partners and celebrating the deportation of illegal immigrants from communities across the nation.
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"We're liberating communities like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, that have been occupied by illegal alien criminals from all over the world," Trump said.
"We're rescuing the Americans whose jobs have been stolen, whose wages have been robbed and whose way of life has been absolutely destroyed. And, under the Trump administration, our country will not be turned into a dumping ground."
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