Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump's rapid policy rollout and reaction to his first week
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | After a relentless pace of his first week in office, President Trump is kicking off week two by signing a new slew of executive orders. |
| 0:08.3 | Here to help us keep tabs on the president's rapid policy rollout and more. |
| 0:13.0 | We're joined by our Politics Monday duo. |
| 0:15.3 | That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. |
| 0:20.1 | It's good to see you both as always. |
| 0:21.5 | Good to see you. So Donald Trump is rapidly remaking the federal government as we know it. |
| 0:25.6 | He's expected to sign two more executive orders today. One would prohibit transgender Americans |
| 0:30.3 | from serving in the military. The other would eliminate diversity programs in the armed forces. |
| 0:35.9 | Tam, how does the Trump administration view these initial |
| 0:38.2 | days? And what does all of this suggest about how the next, let's say, two years will go, |
| 0:43.5 | going into the midterm? Yeah, and those are definitely two different questions. President Trump, |
| 0:47.9 | in his remarks today to House Republicans, it was very clear that he was taking a victory lap. |
| 0:53.4 | You might as well put up the |
| 0:54.3 | Mission Accomplished banner already because he is talking about what he's done in the last week, |
| 0:59.5 | like he has already succeeded at everything he set out to do. One thing is very clear from all |
| 1:04.7 | of these executive actions. These are largely things that he talked about in the campaign. |
| 1:09.8 | These are largely things that he talked about in the campaign. These are largely things that he talked about |
| 1:11.8 | in his campaign speeches, which were very long and sometimes seemed like sidetracks, but even |
| 1:17.3 | the sidetracks are getting executive actions at this point. So he is following through on what |
| 1:23.3 | he promised to do. All of this is being done through executive action. Yes, there are legal |
| 1:29.3 | challenges. There will be more legal challenges. There will be some friction to his ability to get |
| 1:34.2 | things done. However, executive action is much easier. All you need is a Sharpie, much easier |
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