100 Days of Trump: What to Know, What to Do & What’s Coming Next | Jessica Yellin

We Can Do Hard Things

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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407. 100 Days of Trump: What to Know, What to Do & What’s Coming Next | Jessica Yellin Amanda and Webby Award Winning Journalist, Jessica Yellin, dive deep into the first 100 days of Trump's second term in office, discussing the implications of his administration's actions and policies. -The importance of the first 100 days in a presidency—and what Trump’s actions during that time reveal. -How proposed Medicaid cuts are tied to tax breaks for the wealthy.-The dire consequences of RFK Jr. and DOGE on our healthcare system-Why denying due process to anyone endangers due process for everyone.-What actions you can take now to drive change—and why waiting on Congress isn't an option. Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand -- dedicated to helping you manage your “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent. You can follow her on Instagram at Jessica Yellin.  And also, to get real time, clear and brilliant reporting, go to substack.com and search for her page newsnotnoise and subscribe there. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to We can do hard things.
0:13.7	And Jessica Yelen and I are here to say, you did it.
0:19.0	Congratulations.
0:20.4	You did the hard thing of surviving the first hundred days of the Trump administration. This is the landmark occasion that we are talking about today, both why is everyone talking about the first 100 days? What does it mean and what we can extrapolate from
0:43.1	that to expect of the next 1,600 days? It's okay. It's okay. Just chunk it day by day.
0:51.9	So Jessica, hi. Thank you for always being here and telling us what we need to know and not telling us what we don't need to know.
0:59.1	So we don't have to crowd our heads with unnecessary anxiety that we can just know what we need to know and what is useful and helpful to the world.
1:09.8	So thank you. I don't know how to say. I don't
1:13.5	want to say happy first hundred days. I want to say I'm happy to see you. I'm happy to be alive at the
1:19.4	same time as you as we endure and persevere. That is a very sweet sentiment. Thank you. I'm happy
1:26.7	to have this time when we can digest together
1:29.2	because sometimes it gets a little intense doing all this work out here. Yeah. So yeah, you're in it
1:35.3	every, every day in the weeds of it. And then we appreciate you coming to synthesize with us
1:42.2	what it means in context. So, okay, I would like to
1:47.2	start with, it seems like everyone in the world is saying, first hundred days, first hundred days.
1:52.6	And so can you talk to us about why it seems a little bit of an arbitrary marker of time. So tell us why 100 days matters. Why do we care? Why is it
2:04.5	everywhere? So just going back, the idea of a first 100 days benchmark came about from Franklin
2:11.9	D. Roosevelt's presidency. In 1933, he gave, I think it was in a radio address where he talked about the first hundred days.
2:21.8	He was referring to Congress, but it's come to refer to the president's first hundred days to see how much they can get done in 100 day period.
2:31.5	In other words, like, this is the period in which we're going to sign bills,
2:35.1	issue executive orders, launch our major programs, and have a real impact. And it's because
2:42.4	Roosevelt did actually succeed in doing all those things to a very different end, he, it was all
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