April 14, 2025: Inside the chaos at HHS

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

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Summary

In the two-plus months since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm at the Department of Health and Human Services, the agency has been shaken to its core — data collection has been halted, research has been cut, and more than 10,000 employees have been laid off. POLITICO White House reporter Adam Cancryn joins host Steven Overly to unpack what is happening and why it matters. Plus, Meta’s antitrust trial begins today, and President Donald Trump will meet with the president of El Salvador to discuss immigration.

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0:00.0	presented by BP.
0:05.4	Good morning, everyone. I'm Stephen Overley. It's Monday, April 14th, and there's a lot driving
0:11.7	the day, so let's dig in. Trade news isn't fading anytime soon. On Sunday, Commerce Secretary
0:18.9	Howard Lutnik told ABC news that smartphones, computers, and semiconductors
0:23.5	would be hit with tariffs in the coming weeks. This just days after President Donald Trump
0:29.1	exempted many consumer electronics from his reciprocal tariffs on China. Trump also chimed in on
0:36.2	Sunday to say the whole electronic supply chain is under review.
0:41.2	The mixed messages are sure to cause whiplash in Silicon Valley and set Wall Street up for another
0:47.0	week of market uncertainty. Another tech giant facing a tough week in Washington is meta. The company's antitrust lawsuit finally begins today.
0:57.4	Nearly six years after the Federal Trade Commission began investigating whether it has a social
1:02.8	media monopoly.
1:04.4	And if the government wins, it could try to break apart, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
1:10.6	But CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been working the
1:12.8	White House, where the only judge who matters is Trump. Since inauguration day, Zuckerberg has made
1:19.0	multiple visits to the White House, where the Wall Street Journal reported he personally lobbied
1:24.3	Trump for a settlement. The actual judge, hearing Metis case, is a name you'll surely know, U.S. District Judge
1:31.7	James Bowsberg, the same judge presiding over the lawsuit against Trump for deporting
1:37.9	Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
1:40.3	That issue will be back in the headlines today, as Trump welcomes El Salvadorian President
1:45.3	Nayib Buckele to the White House. El Salvador has taken more than 250 migrants that the White
1:51.5	House says are connected to gangs, and that's only the beginning. Politico's Dasha Burns and
1:57.8	my award reported that U.S. military contractors are pitching a plan to ramp
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