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“Today is a tragic day. It’s a day of boundless sorrow, of indescribable pain. Four-year-old Ariel Bibas, his baby brother one-year-old Kfir and 84-year-old Oded Lifshitz were brutally murdered by Hamas savages. Their bodies will return home to a nation in mourning. A nation that will never forget or forgive the evil that cut down these beautiful souls. Since that black day on October 7th, when Hamas butchered and burned 1,200 of our families and friends, Israel waited with bated breath, hoping beyond hope that our hostages would survive the Hamas hell. Against all odds, we succeeded in bringing many home. Some we rescued. Some we tragically couldn't. The Bibas children in particular became the symbol of who we are, and who we're fighting against. Here is a photo of the Bibas brothers. These "perfect children," again, were four years old and less than one year old when the Hamas savages snatched them from their mother's arms. She fought like a lioness to protect her boys. Just imagine their horror. Imagine their confusion. Perfect little children who never hurt a soul. A baby, for the love of God. They languished in captivity until Hamas murdered them in cold blood. Who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders them? Monsters. That's who. These Hamas monsters also cynically refused to bring back the boys’ mother, Shiri, and sent the body of a Gazan woman instead, in brazen violation of the agreement. Today the heavens shake. The entire civilized world should condemn these horrific murders.The entire civilized world should join Israel in demanding the immediate release of all the hostages. All of Israel is united in grief. And as the prime minister of Israel, I vow that I will not rest until the savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice. They do not deserve to walk this earth. Nothing will stop me. Nothing. Ariel, Kfir and Oded: I am so sorry we couldn't save you from the monsters who did this. We honor your kind and loving souls, so tragically cut down by evil terror. May your memory forever be a blessing and a reminder to all of us that we must fight this evil and eradicate it from the face of this earth”.
An executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce in the midst of the critical tax-filing season.
The cuts are part of President Donald Trump's radical downsizing effort that has targeted bank regulators, forest workers, rocket scientists and tens of thousands of other government employees. The effort is being led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, Trump's biggest campaign donor.
The layoffs at the IRS largely target workers at the agency who were hired as part of an expansion under former Democratic President Joe Biden, who sought to expand enforcement efforts on wealthy taxpayers. The agency now employs roughly 100,000 people, up from 80,000 when he took office.
Independent budget analysts estimate the expansion could boost government revenues and help narrow trillion-dollar budget deficit. Trump's Republicans say the expansion would lead to more harassment of ordinary American taxpayers.
The workers being cut are in their probationary period and enjoy fewer protections than career employees.
The IRS has taken a more careful approach to downsizing than other agencies, given that it is in the middle of its busiest period, with the April 15 tax filing deadline just two months away.
The 2025 tax filing season opened on January 27, with the IRS expecting over 140 million individual tax year 2024 returns by the federal filing deadline.
The dismissals target revenue agents, customer-service workers, specialized auditors and IT specialists across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., according to people familiar with the matter.
The IRS will retain several thousand probationary employees deemed critical for processing tax returns, including those involved in supporting and advocating for taxpayers, one source said.
The White House has not said how many of the nation's 2.3 million civil-service workers it wants to fire and has given no numbers on the mass layoffs. Roughly 75,000 took a buyout offer last week.
The campaign has delighted Republicans for culling a federal workforce they view as bloated, corrupt and insufficiently loyal to Trump, while also taking aim at government agencies that regulate big business and collect taxes -- including those that oversee Musk's companies SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink.
Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team has also canceled contracts worth about $8.5 billion involving foreign aid, diversity training and other initiatives opposed by Trump. Both men have set a goal of cutting at least $1 trillion from the $6.7 trillion federal budget, though Trump has said he will not touch popular benefit programs that make up roughly one-third of that total.
Democratic critics say Trump is exceeding his constitutional authority and hacking away at popular and critical government programs at the expense of legions of middle-class families.
On Wednesday's "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE," Carl talked about Elon Musk's idea of sending every American a check from the money the Department of Government Efficiency saved.
"Democrats are the party of war," Rob Finnerty illustrated, proven throughout both modern American history and in the political outrage taking place over President Trump seeking to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Pentagon’s budget is going to shrink and Americans are going to get better “bang for their buck” under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “Did you notice that of all the controversial Trump nominees—Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, RFK, Tulsi Gabbard—the Left went after Pete Hegseth the most vehemently? And he required JD Vance to break that tie. There was a reason for that. He is proposing radical changes in the Pentagon. Remember where we are right now with the Pentagon. We spend $820 billion a year. It's about 14% of the entire budget and it's immune to criticism. It really is. “And we are building $14 billion carriers. We're building $85 billion F-35s. We have built $140 million F-22s. We're seeing, in Ukraine and the Middle East, the entire mode of 21st-century warfare being revolutionized. It's more of—not that we're going to have bad quality, but it's more quantity than quality. They're flooding the zones with cheap drones—cheap drones on the ocean, in the air, and on land. “And we're not there yet. We're not doing it. So what Pete Hegseth wants to do is change the entire manner of procurement.”
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 20, 2025 shows posters bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas (C) and her two children Ariel (L) and Kfir (R), held in the Gaza Strip since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, set up on a square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on January 21, 2025. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN Staff Sophia Flores
4:05 PM – Thursday, February 20, 2025
Following a forensic investigation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the body believed to be that of Shiri Bibas, a Hamas hostage, is not hers — nor the body of any other hostage taken by the Hamas.
Meanwhile, the remains of her two sons, the youngest victims kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group, have in fact been positively identified.
Specialists at Abu Kabir who identified the remains noted that through their forensic evidence, Israel’s intelligence agency believes that the young children were “brutally murdered” by the terrorists in November 2023.
Shiri’s eldest son, Ariel, was only 4-years-old, while her other son, Kfir, was just 10-months-old at the time of their deaths.
“This is a very serious violation by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is required by the agreement to return the four dead hostages,” says the IDF. “We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all of our hostages.”
“We share the deep sorrow of the Bibas family at this difficult time and will continue to make every effort to return Shiri and all the hostages home as soon as possible,” the IDF continued.
The news comes hours after the bodies of Shiri, Ariel, Kfir and Oded Lifshitz, 84, were released back to Israel as part of a hostage swap.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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The Trump administration is in the process of doing something historic. Not only is Trump using Elon Musk and the DOGE to cut insane amounts of wasteful spending, but he’s also dismantling the deep state brick by brick. This administrative rogue government was originally built under people like Woodrow Wilson and FDR — but thanks to sites like USASpending.Gov, new corruption is revealed every day. On this episode of "Glenn TV," Glenn Beck goes even deeper to reveal outrageous expenses taxpayers have been funding all over the world. Did you know the U.S. State Department allocated nearly $4 million to fund police in El Salvador … with a sports league? Or that USAID has been subsidizing the Kenyan medical system with over half a billion dollars while our own health care system needs work? Just looking at USAID spending isn’t enough. Glenn follows the money trail on four chalkboards to reveal a complex system that was built over decades, showing how our tax dollars have been laundered through multiple layers. He names the organizations that the DOGE data experts should shine a light on next. While the establishment and Left take to the streets to protest the DOGE, Glenn reminds them of Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to reduce the size of government and increase transparency. This isn’t dictator stuff. We voted for this! Glenn is joined by the creator of DataRepublican.com, whose site has gone viral as millions of Americans clamor to find where our money has been wasted. Her work makes globalist elites nervous, so she has to remain anonymous. Her data has exposed NGOs that claim to be charities but are really taking our tax money and spreading it among themselves. She says, “These people have created a government INSIDE our government,” and they are not going down without a fight.
Rob Schmitt interviews Elon Musk at CPAC and talks about his transition from being politically neutral to supporting MAGA, discussing DOGE cutting government waste, and more.
