Belt and DOGE

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE helps lead an effort to pull out the rug from under Sri Lankan pronoun education, Vietnamese inclusivity programs, Bolivian transgender operas, and more—with the U.S. Agency for International Development caught in the first sweep. An outrage! Or so say leftists. In retaliation for that and more, the liberal media unearths the qualifications of Musk’s young staff, who turn out to be…educated, accomplished, and competent. Whoops. The guys sit down to talk wasteful spending and managerial efficiency, along with Christianity's role in government.

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of the Roundtable.
0:02.5	I guess I feel like we've been funneling part of the horror of this USAID stuff is
0:09.8	like we've been funneling money as you guys are saying in service of the kind of GAE,
0:16.6	the global American empire whose flag is the trans chevron gay pride flag and which is you know
0:24.6	which attaches like actual kind of life-saving money to all sorts of psychotic leftist
0:32.3	cultural imperatives and and now we have to kind of withdraw the cultural imperatives while also figuring out like what to do with the money that we do want to send to our our allies.
0:45.0	All I'm saying is it must be very confusing right now to be a chicken farmer in darkest Africa, constantly receiving about-face directives from the cultural mission
0:57.9	on high.
0:58.6	That must be bizarre.
1:13.6	Yeah. The The Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors podcast here at the American Mind.
1:41.8	I'm your host, Spencer Claven, associate editor of the Claremont
1:45.7	Review of Books and Herculaneum Scroll editor of the American Mind. I am joined this week by
1:52.5	Seth Barron, managing editor Mike Sabo and publisher and president Ryan Williams. Well,
2:00.7	we're going to pick up almost right where we left
2:03.1	off last time. We just touched on what then was a developing story and is now still a developing
2:10.8	story, which is the pause, halt, reversal, overturning, recalibration? Who's quite to say? The something that has
2:20.8	been performed done to USAID. When we last met, this was just an order issuing a 90-day hold on basically all foreign assistance pending review. I say just
2:42.0	because it's now become about five other different things in the process. But this is what Chris Murphy,
2:48.1	the senator from Connecticut, was getting all upset about the idea that the Trump administration wanted to put a pause on foreign aid in order to review and figure out which projects did or did not align with its priorities.
3:05.6	It later seems to have turned out to be the case that the Office
3:10.1	of Management and Budget issued a memo to this effect without really clearing it with upper
3:17.7	echelon staff so that there was some confusion about exactly which programs were being paused and halted.
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