Fox News Suddenly Admits to Major Trump Failure amid Fresh DOGE Fiasco

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Fox News hosts have gotten very aggressive in pinning down Trump officials over the failures of Trump’s trade agenda. Stuart Varney sharply questioned a top official over the loss of manufacturing jobs in the latest jobs report, and Maria Bartiromo usefully prodded a second official over the failure to produce trade deals. Taken together, these constitute a surprise admission that the latest machinations involving Trump’s tariffs reveal that they aren’t coming close to having their advertised effects. Meanwhile, an extraordinary Washington Post report reveals that administration officials are scrambling to reverse large numbers of firings under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, another serious admission of what a fiasco DOGE remains. On today’s episode, economist Kathryn Edwards usefully explains how all these developments reveal a deeper set of failings driving Trump’s vision and worldview, possibly putting us on a slow drift toward recession. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:00.0	The economic news has not been great for President Trump.
1:05.6	The new Labor Department report found that hiring has slowed, with the economy adding 139,000 jobs in May, and we actually lost 8,000 manufacturing jobs. Meanwhile, Trump still has yet to
1:13.9	announce any meaningful trade deals with other countries, which is forcing his advisors to undertake
1:19.1	some really creative spin to explain this away. Interestingly, on these fronts, Fox News is actually
1:26.0	putting harsher pressure on the administration
1:28.3	than you would have expected.
1:29.3	Its top anchors have been sharply questioning senior officials about the tariffs,
1:33.3	about the trade deals, and about the future of manufacturing under Trump.
1:38.3	So today we're going to try to take stock of where we are economically and what the politics of that will mean,
1:43.3	with economist Catherine
1:45.1	Edwards, one of our favorite commentators on all these issues. Catherine, thanks for coming on.
1:50.6	Thank you for having me back. Okay, Catherine, so where are we economically? A lot of the headlines
1:55.9	about the Friday jobs report said hiring has slowed. Many of the news stories said that
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