"Anyone Unhappy With Elon?"
Talking Feds
Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Administration and congressional republicans continued to wreak havoc with the federal workforce, international relations, limited executive power, and the constitution, not necessarily in that order. Tara Setmayer, Bob Shrum, and Jacob Weisberg join Harry to analyze the party-line House budget that seems DOA in the Senate; tension within the Executive Branch over Elon Musk; growing popular opposition to the Administration and especially to Musk’s untethered and unaccounted role; and more.
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| 1:23.9 | Are you very unhappy with you? If you are, we'll throw them out of you |
| 1:28.3 | Is anybody unhappy? |
| 1:29.3 | Welcome to Talking Fed's a roundtable |
| 1:43.3 | that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day. I'm Harry Littman. |
| 1:55.0 | Congress, well, to be precise, House Republicans took action this week, but the country might have been better off had they not. |
| 2:03.6 | After a relentless pressure campaign from Speaker Mike Johnson, the Trump-endorsed budget plan |
| 2:10.4 | squeaked through on a razor-thin, 217-215 party line vote. |
| 2:17.0 | The plan delivers on Trump's demands for yet more tax cuts for the wealthy, |
| 2:22.3 | but at the staggering cost of slashing some $2 trillion from mandatory programs, including Medicaid, |
| 2:30.6 | which Trump has repeatedly insisted would remain untouched. |
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