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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Can't pass an FBI background check? Not a problem. That's the Trump administration's approach to top secret security clearances for some White House officials. Now Democrats are launching an investigation. Vox's Ella Nilsen explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Usually when I call my bank and need them to do me a solid, they just want to charge

0:05.5

me a bunch of money for said solid.

0:08.5

I'm too lazy to really change that situation, but if you're not, you might want to check

0:15.1

out aspiration.

0:16.1

They want to save you money while trying to save the world.

0:19.3

I'll tell you about that later.

0:20.6

You can download the aspiration app to open an account today.

0:33.6

Democrats control the house, and with that control they've been launching investigations.

0:38.4

Surely you've heard about at least one of them.

0:41.6

Mr. Trump is racist.

0:44.8

Another thing they're doing is looking into security clearances, specifically how the

0:50.0

Trump administration has been handing them out because the Trump administration has been

0:56.0

doing things a little differently.

0:58.6

Yeah, well in the White House and across the federal government, if you are a federal

1:03.0

employee or a federal contractor, pretty much everybody needs to go through an application

1:07.8

for a security clearance.

1:09.6

Ella Nilsen writes about Congress for Vox.

1:12.6

So you fill out, I think it's 127 page form.

1:18.1

And yeah, a lot of paperwork.

1:21.0

And then you get a background check.

1:24.0

You know, if you're a lower level federal employee or contractor, it's going to be done by a

1:28.5

different investigative body that doesn't have quite as much power.

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