Friday Roundup: Trump's Efforts To Overhaul Bureaucracy, FBI

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration's offer for federal employees to resign now and keep their pay and benefits through September has been paused for now. What happens next with the so-called fork in the road.

Then, FBI agents who were involved with January 6th cases have sued their bosses at the Department of Justice.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, labor correspondent Andrea Hsu, political correspondent Susan Davis, and justice correspondent Carrie Johnson.

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0:18.7	This is Andre from Vermont.
0:20.7	I've just checked off one of my bucket list items by riding a motorcycle to the Arctic Circle on the world famous Dalton Highway in Alaska.
0:28.3	This podcast was recorded at 12.13 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, February 7th.
0:34.8	Things will likely have changed when you hear this.
0:37.3	But you can be sure that I'll be back
0:38.7	in the saddle attacking my bucket list while driving through Alaska, the Yukon, British
0:43.4	Columbia, and ending in Portland, Oregon in two weeks. Enjoy the show.
0:50.6	That is so cool. That is spectacular. Also sounds kind of cold. It does sound cold.
0:54.8	And also, I think, yeah, the saddle.
0:57.7	Just thinking that...
0:59.4	I'm going to have to suggest this.
1:00.7	My brother does these long motorcycle rides.
1:03.2	It's done down to the Keys and throughout Palacca and coast to coast.
1:05.9	He hasn't done the Arctic Circle.
1:07.1	I'm going to text him after this pod and tell him he's got his next trip.
1:09.7	There you go.
1:10.8	Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Susan Davis.
1:15.6	I cover politics. And today we are joined by labor correspondent, Andrea Shue. Andrea,
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