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The Daily Beans

Refried Beans | A Coup By Any Other Name (feat. Steve Vladeck) | 1/29/2025

The Daily Beans

MSW Media

News, Daily News, Politics, Comedy

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 Trump tried to seize the power of Congress by halting all appropriations - and a Biden appointed judge blocked it hours later; Trump has asked two million federal workers to voluntarily resign; the CDC has been ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization; top USAID staff have been put on administrative leave; federal employees have filed a lawsuit over the HR at OPM government wide email for privacy concerns; Republican state attorneys general are pressuring Costco to drop their DEI programs; Jim Acosta announces he’s leaving CNN; Trump has moved to fire Dem members of the EEOC and NLRB; six transgender service members are suing Trump and Pete Hegseth over the ban on trans people serving in the military; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

Transcript

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0:00.0

M SW Media.

0:05.5

Hey, everybody, it's A.G.

0:07.3

And welcome to refried beans, where we play an episode of the Daily Beans podcast from the same

0:12.6

week, either one, two, or three years ago.

0:15.7

So we can see how far we've come.

0:17.6

So please enjoy this episode from Days Gone By and note the date in the intro.

0:22.9

Refried beans. I like refried beans. That's why I want to try fried beans because maybe they're just as good

0:26.8

and we're wasting time.

0:30.5

News will swear.

0:35.1

Daily beans, daily beans, daily beans.

0:38.3

Daily beans, daily beans.

0:43.3

Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Wednesday, January 29th, 2025.

0:50.3

Today, in the middle of the night, Monday night, Trump tried to seize the power of Congress

0:55.6

by halting all appropriations, and a Biden-appointed judge has blocked it just hours later.

1:01.3

Trump has asked two million federal workers to voluntarily resign. The CDC has been ordered

1:06.9

to stop working with the World Health Organization. Top U.S. Aid staff have been put on

1:11.4

administrative leave. Federal employees have filed a lawsuit over the HR at OPM government-wide

1:17.5

email for privacy concerns. Republican State Attorneys General are pressuring Costco to drop their

1:23.5

DEI programs. Jim Acosta has announced he's going to leave CNN. Trump has moved to fire

1:29.3

Democratic members of the EEOC and NLRB, and six transgender service members are suing Trump and

1:36.3

Pete Hegseth over the ban on trans people serving in the military. I'm Allison Gill. And I'm Dana

1:41.3

Goldberg. Quite a Wednesday so far, my friend. Yeah, it sure is. And I'm Dana Goldberg.

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