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Good morning, everyone.

Hope you turned all the analog, non-automatic clocks you might still have ahead over the weekend.

You know, we once had a guest who wasn't here at 10 o'clock when we were starting the show.

And we called them at home. I think we woke them up. And he said, what? It's 10 o'clock when we were starting the show. And we called them at home.

I think we woke him up.

He said, what?

It's 10 o'clock?

I thought it was 9 o'clock.

So for anybody who might be in that boat,

yeah, we sprung ahead on Saturday night.

It is 10 o'clock on Monday.

Hope you had a good weekend.

NPR Stephen Fowler is with us. He's a political reporter with NPR's Washington

desk where he currently reports on the restructuring of the federal government and the future

of the Democratic and Republican parties after Donald Trump's return to office. For his reporting

the last few weeks, I'll call him our lead Doge receipts correspondent because he's

revealed eye-poppingly big differences in what they claim to be saving the American public

and what their published receipts actually show. Stephen, thanks for your reporting and

thanks for coming on WNYC with us today in addition to your network appearances that

air on all the NPR stations. Welcome to our show. Thanks for having me. You first grabbed my

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