Fighting the Swamp: 100 Days of Trump
The Happy Women Podcast
Happy Women
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Happy Women podcast, hosts Jennifer Horn and Katie Gorka speaks with Mandy Gunasekara, a former chief of staff at the EPA during the Trump administration. They discuss Mandy's experiences with the deep state, her insights on federalism, and the importance of returning power to the states. Mandy shares her perspective on climate change, the role of political appointees, and the purpose of her book, 'Y'all Fired: A Southern Bell's Guide to Restoring Federalism and Draining the Swamp.' The conversation highlights the challenges faced by those in the Trump administration and the ongoing battle against the entrenched bureaucratic system in Washington, D.C.
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| 0:00.0 | There are two happy women bringing you inspiring stories, politics, pop culture, and lifestyle hacks, all with an eye to making our communities and our country a better place to live. |
| 0:13.5 | It's the Happy Women podcast with your hosts, Jen Horn and Katie Horka. |
| 0:20.1 | Fighting the Deep State, 100 days in of the Trump administration. And yes, that deep state |
| 0:26.0 | keeps rearing its head. But that's all right. There are a lot of fighters lined up that are |
| 0:30.3 | going to work on behalf of the American people and President Trump. And welcome to the Happy |
| 0:34.5 | Women podcast. I'm Jennifer Horn. And I'm Katie Gorka. And we have one of those |
| 0:38.6 | fighters with us today. Mandy Gunna Sikara. Did I do it right? Go to Sakara. Okay, good. |
| 0:45.6 | Is here. And I can do her book perfectly because she's a Southern girl. My mom's from the South. |
| 0:50.7 | And her book is called Y'all Fired, A Southern Bell's Guide to Restoring |
| 0:54.6 | Federalism and Draining the Swamp. She's former chief of staff over at the EPA during President |
| 1:00.2 | Trump's first administration. You can give her a follow right now at Mississippi M.G. And Mandy, |
| 1:06.0 | thanks so much for being with us today. Yeah, it's wonderful to be with y'all. Well, let's start talking about it because you |
| 1:12.4 | have quite this story. You saw deep state bullying close up. Tell us about that. Yeah, my first row |
| 1:19.8 | run in was I was a key part of President Trump getting out of the Paris Climate Accord. Prior to going in |
| 1:26.4 | and working at EPA, I'd been |
| 1:27.8 | sitting at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and I was tasked with international and |
| 1:32.5 | domestic climate policy. So what that ultimately meant is I was one of the few Republicans that would |
| 1:37.7 | actually go to these international climate conferences and try to talk some sense to anyone that was willing to actually listen, |
| 1:45.8 | which was very few. But nonetheless, when I went in, I helped brief the president in actually |
| 1:51.9 | getting out of the Paris Climate Accord, a campaign promise that he had made. But then when he got |
| 1:56.5 | in, he was up against that great deep state barrier of Washington, D.C., and actually taking the steps to get |
| 2:03.4 | out. And so through that process, and once President Trump made that formal announcement, it was in the |
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