July 9, 2025: SCOTUS aids in MAGA's DC makeover

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court eased the way for President Donald Trump to proceed with his plans to fire tens of thousands of federal workers by executive order. The implications for Washington — and the nation — are vast. But will the win — and the ensuing makeover of the bureaucracy — satisfy a disgruntled MAGA base? Playbook author Jack Blanchard and chief Playbook correspondent Dasha Burns talk it through. Plus, a peek at the growing daylight between the White House and members of Trump’s Cabinet.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:08.3	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:10.2	And I'm Dasha Burns.
0:11.4	It is Wednesday, July 9th.
0:13.2	And this is the Playbook podcast.
0:15.1	Good morning, everybody.
0:16.2	How are you doing?
0:16.8	Good morning.
0:17.8	We're hanging in.
0:19.3	Hanging in there.
0:19.8	This week is just grinding by, I have to say. Come on. There's loads of cool stories to talk about today. All right, all right. I'll rally for you, Jack. Come on. There's plenty going on. We've got loads of different things that the president's doing today. Why don't we talk very briefly first about trade? We knew it was going to be one of the big headlines this week, Dash, it has indeed been with all the letters that went out on Monday. Donald Trump told us last night that there's going to be a load more this morning, letters going out to countries or rather just posted on his truth social. I don't know whether he actually puts them in an envelope and sends them. Yeah, we'll see. I guess they pick up the news one way or another. It gets out there.
0:54.9	Telling them what tariffs they are supposedly going to have imposed upon them from
0:59.1	the 1st of August, which of course is the new deadline, the latest deadline.
1:03.3	I don't really know how seriously to take this.
1:05.6	When we're back in April when he first started doing the big show beers thing,
1:09.0	like it was such a massive deal.
1:10.5	It was like the biggest story of the year, right? It's pretty hard to crash the EIS bond market. The president managed to do it. That is the sign of a truly humongous story. But it hasn't happened again, even though we keep coming up on these deadlines and the day it keeps moving. The reason it hasn't happened is because no one really believes anything is going to happen happen. And I'm sitting here this morning writing playbook faithfully saying, well, he's going to impose these tariffs on this country on this day, thinking, yeah, but is he? Does anyone believe it? Do these countries believe it? Do the negotiators believe it? Do the markets believe it? I'm not sure they do really. I mean, the challenge is there's no alternative, right? Like, you can't rely on the fact
1:46.1	that he will and you can't rely on the fact that he won't, hence the chaos in the economy right now.
1:52.4	Yeah. Keep an eye on Trump's Truth Social Feed this morning, we will see a load more of those
1:56.4	announcements. And we may or may not also see a couple of trade deals. We've been told to expect
2:00.7	one or two
2:01.3	over the next 48 hours. The expectation is that a settlement is going to be reached with the European
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