The Campaign Moment: Trump’s controversial Cabinet
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
There’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz to head up the Justice Department. Former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. Trump has chosen some eyebrow-raising names to staff his Cabinet. But are there any Republicans in the Senate that would choose to block them?
Congress reporter Liz Goodwin joins hosts Aaron Blake and Elahe Izadi to dig into Trump’s Cabinet appointments, their chances in the Senate, and whether Trump could bypass the upper chamber entirely with the use of recess appointments.
Today's episode was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Rena Flores, Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | So I don't know if you remember because it feels like it was years ago, but just a few days ago, |
| 0:07.9 | President-elect Donald Trump announced a new thing, co-led by Elon Musk, called the Department of Government Efficiency, |
| 0:15.9 | which is not an actual governmental department. |
| 0:19.5 | It's an outside the government commission. |
| 0:21.1 | But if you had to create a new department of, what would it be? |
| 0:27.7 | I feel like maybe, like, I really don't like people speeding. |
| 0:32.1 | Like, now that I have kids, I'm always, like, shaking my fist. |
| 0:36.1 | You know, like, slow down. It's a neighborhood. |
| 0:39.5 | Like department of like getting those people off the streets. I was also going to go with a |
| 0:45.6 | traffic related department. It would be solely devoted to making sure that people don't camp out |
| 0:54.1 | in the left lane driving middle of the speed |
| 0:55.9 | limit. |
| 0:56.9 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:57.6 | So you're the people that Liz wants to target in her department. |
| 1:01.4 | You're top of my list, Aaron. |
| 1:06.5 | Well, welcome to the campaign moment on this Friday, November 15th. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm Ella Hay-Izzari, co-host of Post Reports. |
| 1:18.4 | And I'm Aaron Blake, senior politics reporter and author of the Campaign Moment newsletter. |
| 1:23.2 | We're also joined this week by our post-Congress reporter colleague Liz Goodwin. |
| 1:27.7 | Hey, Liz. |
| 1:28.5 | Hello. |
| 1:32.3 | Liz, I'm happy you're here because this entire week we've just been inundated with news about Donald Trump's cabinet picks. |
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