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MARIA BARTIROMO: I was surprised at the Democrats' behavior the other night, because you delivered among the most diverse, expanded audience -- Republicans, Democrats, Independents. So does -- is it just the Democrat leadership that does not see that?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: There's something wrong with them. There's just something -- I can't even believe it. They lost an election in a landslide. They were talking about men playing in women's sports.

When I looked the other night, I made a speech. The Republicans were going wild. And the Democrats were having their little signs up, their little signs, little, tiny signs. And I said, it's unbelievable. They don't get it. They don't get it now.

And I think they're going to end up being a minor party if they keep going like this, because people don't want to hear about these stupid ideas that they have. "Transgender for everybody." And, again, the men in women's sports. What is that, a 90-10 deal? I don't even know who the 10 would be. But there are, they're fighting for it.

And I try and say to myself -- because you always like to understand where your opponent is whether it's in business or anything else. Is there something I don't understand? But we don't understand it.

You look at their theories on tax. You know, all my life I've watched politicians. I've always liked it, I've watched it. I participated but from the standpoint of a donor. But I participated. And all my life I've watched politicians. "We will cut your taxes, we will cut" -- these people say we're going to raise your taxes. This is the only time. It's never said -- I've never heard it. They say it even if they don't mean it, "We will cut you taxes!"

These people say we're going to give you the biggest tax increase you've ever had, and that's what they're running on. And I tell Republicans, take that night -- because that was a great night. We got record ratings, you saw that. The highest-rated speech, like, ever of its kind. Take that night and run your midterms on it. And show us, I'm talking about some young child with cancer or some young, beautiful girl like Laken Riley, who was killed, and they don't get up. And they don't salute the mother who's there devastated. Nunguary, they don't get up and salute the mother whose child was devastated. I mean, brutally killed. The young boy with cancer that wants to be a cop, and they don't get up and salute that child.

They not only don't get up, they're angry. And the only thing that happened, it was interesting really, when I mentioned Ukraine and people being killed, they started clapping. And that clap was led by Pocahontas.

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A study published this week details the degree to which the Biden administration infused DEI policies into the federal government in a report the authors say can serve as a resource for the Trump administration to continue to identify and "destroy" the practice.

The new study, conducted by the Functional Government Initiative and the Center for Renewing America, identified 460 programs across 24 government agencies in the Biden administration that diverted resources to DEI initiatives.

At least $1 trillion of taxpayer money was infused with DEI principles, the study states.

The study lays out DEI infusion across several federal agencies, including the Defense Department's plan to "integrate environmental/economic justice tools" into training, FEMA’s need to "instill equity as a foundation of emergency management," and the Labor Department's push to "embed equity in a sustainable manner that recognizes the multiple and overlapping identities held by workers."

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 13985, which was aimed at carrying out the stated goal of "advancing equity and racial justice through the federal government."

"This order mandated a whole of government approach to injecting DEI philosophy into the federal budget," the study says. "In alignment with this directive, the Biden administration apparently spent trillions in DEI-related initiatives in a manner and at a speed that has shrouded public awareness of the financial burden."

EMBEDDED 59 PAGE PDF OF THE STUDY IS HERE IN THE ARTICLE

The report outlines how, over the next four years, the amount spent on DEI efforts was "staggering."

"The cumulative budget of these programs exceeds $1.1 trillion," the report says. "However, this figure does not encompass all DEI-related expenditures, nor does it include every program across these agencies. The findings reveal a substantial increase in DEI spending, largely attributable to policy directives under the Biden administration."

"Of the programs identified, 10 are exclusively dedicated to DEI and could be considered for quick elimination; 144 allocate significant resources to DEI initiatives and should be reviewed if those are to be ended; and 306 programs incorporate DEI to varying degrees, though the extent of their DEI focus is indeterminate based on the available documentation."

The report goes department by department and calculates the DEI programs and provides recommendations on how they should be addressed.

"DEI is deeply rooted throughout all aspects of the federal government, and it needs to be eliminated completely," Center for Renewing America senior adviser Wade Miller told Fox News Digital in a statement.

"Thankfully, the Trump administration has already embarked on a vitally necessary complete audit of each and every government program. We offer, in this report, what we hope are additional resources and tools that the new administration and Congress can use to identify, destroy and permanently remove DEI from the federal government."

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