From Washington: The Expectations of DOGE

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🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped billionaires Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency. Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute Brian Riedl explains the new department's priorities and how excess spending can realistically be cut. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent much of this week on Capitol Hill trying to convince Senators that he is worthy enough to head the Department of Health and Human Services. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kennedy for the position over a month ago, and since then, bipartisan lawmakers have questioned his qualifications over previous comments about vaccines, abortion, and COVID-19. Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams discusses what the HHS could look like under RFK Jr. and the impact he could have on the department and the nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	Sunday, December 22nd, 2024.
0:36.4	I'm Jessica Rosenthal. The new Department of Government Efficiency or Doge is highlighting government spending, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle talk about potential cuts, but some say they may all need some help with focusing their efforts.
0:50.2	Where Doge can be most effective is looking for bipartisan examples of waste rather than ideological spending cuts that are not going to pass Congress.
1:01.4	And President-elect Trump's pick to lead health and human services had meetings on the Hill with Republican senators this week.
1:07.4	And some lawmakers had a lot of questions about farming, abortions, and vaccines for RFK Jr.
1:12.6	There's a lot that I think we could improve with the involvement of an RFK, but that is at risk because so much of the attention and in many cases well deserved is on his past statements about vaccines, about fluoride, about
1:30.6	infectious diseases.
1:31.9	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington.
1:40.0	The Doge X accounts been a go-to place now ahead of the incoming administration to remind us of how the government spends some of our money.
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