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How Musk and Ramaswamy Plan to Cut Trillions With DOGE

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for Dec. 5. WSJ White House reporter Ken Thomas talks about the ways Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have suggested trimming the federal government with the Department of Government Efficiency. And as the NYPD continues its search for the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, WSJ reporter Chip Cutter says corporate America is rethinking how it approaches security. Plus, a Texas federal judge has rejected Boeing’s guilty plea relating to two deadly crashes of its 737 MAX airplanes because of DEI requirements for an outside monitor. Tracie Hunte hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.9

Police are searching for a person of interest in the shooting death of United Health Executive Brian Thompson.

0:25.0

The murder has sent shockwaves across corporate boardrooms.

0:28.3

A lot of executives, they've told us that they really have tried to travel without a big security detail.

0:33.4

And so that's one of the questions here is, are they willing to give up some of their privacy to have more people around them if it might keep them safer?

0:39.7

And how Elon Musk and Vivek Ramoswamy plan to cut $2 trillion from the federal government.

0:45.5

Plus, a judge rejects Boeing's guilty plea related to two deadly 737 max crashes over the prosecutor's diversity requirements for an outside monitor.

0:56.4

It's Thursday, December 5th.

0:58.7

I'm Tracy Hunt for the Wall Street Journal.

1:01.0

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

1:10.5

The search for a man who shot and killed United Health Executive Brian Thompson is in its second day.

1:16.9

The New York City Police Department today released new photos of a person of interest wanted for questioning in connection with the shooting.

1:24.2

The photos show a man in a gray hood smiling and leaning against a counter. Police searched

1:29.3

in Upper West Side Hostel, they believe, is where the suspect was staying. Police also revealed

1:34.8

today that the suspect used a Sharpie to write words like, defend, on the bullets shot at Thompson.

1:41.3

The NYPD hasn't publicly identified the man who ambushed the executive early

1:45.8

Wednesday morning. He shot Thompson, 50, in the back and leg, and fled the scene. The murder

1:52.0

outside of an investor meeting at a Midtown Manhattan Hilton has prompted an immediate

1:57.3

reevaluation of long-standing security practices across corporate America.

2:03.1

WSJ reporter Chip Cutter covers workplace management and leadership issues.

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