100 Days of Trump (Part 4)… Has Elon Musk Changed Government Forever?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This is a special Americast mini series, looking at five ways Donald Trump has changed America in his first 100 days back, as President of the United States. In our fourth episode, Matt Chorley joins Justin and Marianna to discuss large scale cuts to federal government by Elon Musk’s DOGE, and look at the impact of those cuts. They also talk about what a modern America should be paying for - both at home and abroad - and why some people think Trump is actually a democrat when it comes to big government spending.
HOSTS: • Matt Chorley, Radio 5 Live presenter • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Senior Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, this is a special episode of AmeriCast, our mini-series, |
| 0:08.6 | looking at five ways that Donald Trump has changed America in his first 100 days back |
| 0:13.8 | as President of the United States. |
| 0:16.4 | Today, hiring the world's richest man, tech billionaire Elon Musk, to make huge cuts to government spending. |
| 0:26.1 | AmeriCast. |
| 0:26.9 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:29.5 | Let me tell you, we have a new star. |
| 0:31.9 | A star is born, Elon. |
| 0:41.7 | This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. |
| 0:43.9 | Chonesaw! Chor! |
| 0:43.9 | I'm Matt Jorley in the Americast Studio in London. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Mariana Spring in the worldwide headquarters of AmeriCast, which is what we call it. |
| 1:01.4 | Sitting next to her and approving that message. |
| 1:03.8 | Marion, it feels like when we get to the end of 2025, Doge might be one of the words of the year, |
| 1:07.5 | a word that we didn't know anything about at the beginning of the year. |
| 1:11.0 | And now it's just part of our conversation. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, unless you're sort of into crypto and meme coins, Doge. |
| 1:17.5 | Which I am not. |
| 1:19.6 | And which I imagine a few people listening might not be. |
| 1:22.5 | You probably are unlikely to have come across that word Doge. |
| 1:25.2 | So Doge actually stands for the Department of Government |
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