Federal Workforce Reductions, Clean Energy EO, Mamdani

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Trey and Justin are joined by Mike and begin by discussing the Supreme Court’s unsigned opinion on federal workforce reductions. The trio dissects the contrasting views of Justices Jackson and Sotomayor. Next is a look into Trump’s executive order aiming to end subsidies and tax credits for clean energy. The trio discusses the policy’s potential effects on renewable energy and Congress’ reaction, along with the future of U.S. energy policy. The show ends with a discussion of the Columbia University hack and the attack on Zohar’s Mamdani by Christopher Rufo. The Politics Guys on ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠X⁠ Mike’s Substack:⁠ What Fresh Hell is This⁠? Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at⁠patreon.com/politicsguys⁠ or⁠ politicsguys.com/support⁠. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of⁠ The Democracy Group⁠, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.4	I'm Trey Orndorff, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University.
1:20.6	And I'm joined today by both Justin Holmes, a professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa, and Mike Baranowski,
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