Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your top of the week podcast, brought to you by the magazine that's been trying to abolish everything for 56 damn years.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nicholasby, Peter Soutermanman and Catherine Mangyew Ward.

Hello, everyone.

Howdy.

Hi, Matt.

Happy Monday.

Yeah, it is happy Peter.

Uh, the second Trump administration has since last we met, uh, come more into focus, uh, over a flurry of proposed cabinet picks. Things started off semi-normal,

I guess, if a bit more interventionist than most libertarians would like in foreign policy

with a selection of Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Mike Walls, for National Security

Advisor, Elise Stefonic, for for UN ambassador and so on.

Then came the Star Wars canteen of picks.

You had the ethically challenged Florida Congressman Matt Gates for Attorney General.

Fox Newsbro Pete Hegzeth for defense, idiosyncratic, Tulsi Gabbard, for Director of National Intelligence,

and Robert F.

Mother Lovin Kennedy Jr.

For Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Meanwhile, a brand spanking new non-cabinet department called Doge.

Department of Government

of Government Efficiency, I guess,

was trolled into being

starring none other than

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