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Kari Lake: “Due to an executive order, we are boiling this agency down…”

Featuring: Kari Lake, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Arizona

Kari joins Bolling to talk Newsom, the National Guard, and the VOA

Published August 29, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:49

Where's the holdup? Is it Congress? First of all, Go ahead. Yeah, don' those numbers. Once again, government numbers aren't always accurate. And the bottom line is we, Due to an executive order, we are boiling this agency down to its statutory minimum. So we're not doing 50 different languages anymore. Statutorily, only four languages are required by law. (05:49–05:57)

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Asserts that an executive order is reducing the agency to its statutory minimum.

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