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The Bulwark Podcast

Neera Tanden: Absolute Power Corrupts

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.6 • 11.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Republicans and the Supreme Court have put basically no guardrails on Trump, so he started a global war that is costing taxpayers $1 billion a day. He shrugs about soldiers dying, and he lies about the school full of children that Americans likely killed. And he's downright giddy that because he signed off on all the bombing of Iran, he may get to choose the country's new leader. At the same time, one of the few occasions when Republicans stood up to him resulted in the firing of his first Cabinet member, the scandalous Kristi Noem. Plus, new job loss numbers show how Trump continues to hurt the working class, fuel prices are rising, the administration is again helping Russia in its war on Ukraine, Rand Paul may have an issue with Noem's chosen successor, and have the Dems' chances of retaking the Senate improved?

Neera Tanden, with the Center for American Progress, joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

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0:51.8

I'm your host Tim Miller.

1:10.9

I'd welcome back to the show, the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress. She was domestic policy advisor to Joe Biden. Has worked for a lot of other Democrats. She is not at all polarizing on the Internet. You might have heard of her. It's Nira. It's Nira Tandon. How you doing, Nira? I just want to say polarizing means people like you, too. Yeah, right, polarizing.

1:12.3

Yeah.

1:12.7

I always said that I was a polarizing child with teachers.

1:15.8

I always made this case to my mother because she'd be upset because she'd go to a parent

1:19.4

teacher conference.

1:20.1

It would be like two teachers that really hate me.

1:21.9

And I'd be like, yeah, but there are five that really, that I'm their favorite.

1:25.1

You know, I'm a polarizing figure. I'm hoping for that same ratio. Yeah, I think that feels about right to me. Excellent. Good news for you. Good news for listeners. Because we've had some downer podcasts recently. There's a lot of shot in Freud out there today for the Trump administration. Things aren't going great for the Trump administration, which also means things aren't going great for the American people. So that part sucks.

1:46.1

Yeah, that part's bad. We're going to try to focus on the political side of it and the problems for

1:51.1

Trump. And we want to start with, I think, the most joyful element of Schaude and that is

1:57.9

Christie, Nome, and her lover, Corey Lewandowski, have been expelled from the government.

2:04.4

Donald Trump posted yesterday that he is pleased to announce that Mark Wayne Mullen will become the U.S.

2:10.1

Secretary of Homeland Security, effective March 31st.

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