Now, as is custom with first year administration budget releases, additional time was necessary to implement presidential initiatives. So in the last four months, we have moved very quickly to reverse course. After four years of weakness and mismanagement, We found nearly 30 billion in savings across the department. We killed wasteful programs, targeted bureaucratic excess and redirected funding from Biden era priorities to President Trump's priorities. Working with the Department of Homeland Security, we increased border security, to say the least. (02:40–02:44)
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