How DOGE Cuts Are Impacting Federal Workers

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Proposals from DOGE, Elon Musk's entity tasked with making the federal government more "efficient," have resulted in lawsuits, pushback from other federal agencies, and a lot of uncertainty for the millions of people who work for the federal government. We look at what's happened & what's to come.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, and correspondents Shannon Bond & Chris Arnold.

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