How DOGE is Reshaping the Administrative State
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Guests: Mollie Hemingway & Mark P. Mills
Host Scot Bertram talks with Mollie Hemingway, senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College and editor-in-chief at The Federalist, about the first month of President Donald Trump's second term in office. And Mark P. Mills, senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and director of the National Center on Energy Analytics, talks about the economics and future of electric vehicles.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.4 | The Inflation Reduction Act is gushing about $30,000 per EV at the EV market, and they're still losing money. |
| 0:31.9 | So if you do the spread, you're talking about something like $100,000 cost to society. |
| 0:37.4 | It's not a sustainable. This is unsustainable. |
| 0:38.7 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:47.1 | That was Mark P. Mills, executive director at the National Center for Energy Analytics. |
| 0:53.1 | He was also on campus as part of our CCA |
| 0:55.5 | lecture series. We'll talk later about the economics and future of electric vehicles. First, |
| 1:01.8 | we're joined by Molly Hemingway. She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College, |
| 1:06.9 | editor-in-chief at the Federalist and a Fox News contributor, Molly. Very nice to see you again. |
| 1:12.5 | Great to be here with you. Thank you for joining us. We have not talked since the election, |
| 1:16.8 | in fact, since before the election in November, so we've got any number of topics we can discuss. |
| 1:21.6 | I wanted to begin by asking you about how we've seen Democrats and the left react to these first few weeks of the |
| 1:30.2 | Trump administration. And they seem to have locked on to a pair of attacks. One is a constitutional |
| 1:37.6 | crisis. Donald Trump is causing a constitutional crisis. And the other is the idea that he wants to turn the country into an |
| 1:46.3 | oligarchy, rule by the rich, and Elon Musk is taking his power, and Elon Musk is running |
| 1:52.1 | roughshod over the federal government. Why do you think that those two lines of attack are the ones |
| 1:58.3 | that have been, you know, landed on by the left as |
| 2:01.9 | they're sort of opening salvo against the new Trump administration. |
| 2:06.2 | I'm not sure I have any insight into why they chose those lines of attack. |
| 2:11.8 | I think we need to be open to the possibility that they're not very good at coming up |
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