Bloat@Brown: DOGE Comes to Brown University
Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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In the first weeks of Donald Trumps second term, the Department of Government Efficiency ransacked the federal government. One student at Brown University decided to take the same approach and bring DOGE to campus.
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| 0:56.6 | now on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. The early days of 2025 were dominated by |
| 1:05.0 | coverage of the beginning of Donald Trump's second term, and particularly the work of the |
| 1:09.8 | Department of Government Efficiency, |
| 1:11.6 | or Doge. |
| 1:13.0 | Within just days of inauguration, entire agencies were gutted, budgets slashed, and programs halted. |
| 1:19.4 | The underlying philosophy of Doge is that public servants are wasteful and corrupt, at best, |
| 1:25.1 | incompetent, at worst, malicious. |
| 1:28.2 | This cynical view of government and bureaucratic inefficiency has been around for a long time, |
| 1:33.9 | but it was center stage once again in the first months of 2025, and it didn't stay contained |
| 1:39.5 | to our federal government. |
| 1:41.6 | A student at Brown University was inspired to follow in Doge's footsteps by |
| 1:45.8 | searching for waste in the administration of Brown University. In doing so, he was |
| 1:50.5 | subject to a student conduct investigation and mocked by some of his peers. But as he |
| 1:55.5 | says it, time has vindicated him. |
| 2:08.7 | I'm Ian Mont. This week on Campus Files, Bloat at Brown. Doge comes to Brown University. |
| 2:21.2 | I liked many things about Brown, such as the fact that they have the open curriculum. |
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