How Trump Has Reshaped The Federal Workforce
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This podcast: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, labor and workplace correspondent Andrea Hsu, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | When Malcolm Gladwell presented NPR's ThruLine podcast with a Peabody Award, he praised it for its historical and moral clarity. |
| 0:09.7 | On ThruLine, we take you back in time to the origins of what's in the news, like presidential power, aging, and evangelicalism. |
| 0:18.0 | Time travel with us every week on the ThruLine podcast from NPR. |
| 0:24.8 | Hey there. |
| 0:26.7 | My name's Jack. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm sitting on a boat in Gainesville, Florida, on Lake Noonan, watching the sunset and reading a book. |
| 0:36.9 | There's probably by my count, 10 or so, gators in the water around me with their heads up |
| 0:45.2 | and the dragonflies are landing on them like it's no problem. |
| 0:50.3 | This podcast was recorded at. |
| 0:52.2 | 12.38 p.m. on Thursday, May 29th, 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be watching the sunset, and there'll probably be more gators. Enjoy. |
| 1:08.5 | That might be my favorite timestamp. I hope they've changed for the better. |
| 1:12.8 | I am. |
| 1:13.8 | Whatever Jack's vibes are, I want them. |
| 1:16.0 | That was immaculate. |
| 1:16.9 | I would be so anxious sitting on that boat. |
| 1:19.9 | For a kid from Queens, I have to tell you, like being surrounded by a bunch of gators in the swamp, feels like my worst nightmare. |
| 1:26.2 | I think they're kind of cute. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. But you're also talking to somebody who saw a possum and thought it was a rat. |
| 1:33.8 | All right. Domenico, we need to get you out into the wild. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics |
| 1:38.3 | Podcast. I'm Difa Shivaram. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Montanara, senior political editor and correspondent. And NPR's labor correspondent, Andrea, is here with us today. Hey, Andrea. |
| 1:46.7 | Hey. All right. So today on the show, we want to talk about President Trump's efforts to change the way the federal government works. |
| 1:52.5 | In just four months, the Trump administration has offered employees buyouts and early retirement, exerted control over some agencies that have long been considered independent |
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