Immigration, Shrinking the Federal Workforce

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Mike and Justin open the preview of this supporters’ midweek episode with a discussion of the Laken Riley Act, the first bill signed into law in the Trump administration. Justin has some serious problems with it, and while Mike shares many of those concerns, he thinks it wouldn’t be such a bad law with a few changes. They also consider President Trump’s ending the Biden-era rule that restricted ICE from entering schools, churches, shelters, and hospitals. That’s followed by a look at some of the major initiatives targeting the federal workforce, including a rule that would make it easier to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, and a ‘buyout offer’ that’s actually not a buyout offer (despite what Elon Musk might say). Mike’s New (free) Substack: What Fresh Hell is This? The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	I'm Northern Kentucky University Political Scientist Michael Baranowski. I'm joined today by University of Northern Iowa political
0:54.7	scientist, Justin Holmes. Good to be here. Yeah, Justin, I enjoy doing the weekend show with you that we
1:01.3	just finished doing literally minutes ago, but now for everyone else, it has been days, but not for
1:09.0	us. We're right back in the thick of things with
1:11.8	all of the stuff, some of the things that we didn't get a chance to talk about. And I thought
1:16.4	we would start with the, with immigration. On last Wednesday, President Trump signed into
1:24.4	law the first bill of the new administration, which is the Lincoln
1:28.7	Riley Act, which is named after a Georgia nursing school student who was killed by Jose
1:35.4	Ibarra, a Venezuelan citizen in the U.S. illegally, and he's now serving life without parole.
1:42.0	Now, Abara was arrested for illegally entering the U.S. in 2022,
1:46.4	but he was then released until his case could be heard in immigration court. And before he
1:52.2	murdered Riley, a barra was arrested for shoplifting from a Walmart, cited for misdemeanor theft,
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