"The Unraveling of Government." The Reporters' Roundtable. February 28, 2025
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
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Musk Runs the Cabinet. Town Hall Backlash. Dangerous Fed Staff Cuts. If Government Fails… GOP Medicaid Danger. No Fraud Shown. Zelensky Visit. Tariffs on Tap. Suppressing the Press. With Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief and Columnist for The Chicago Sun-Times, Jasmine Wright, Reporter for NOTUS and Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief of The National Journal.
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| 1:10.5 | Hey, it's Friday. But don't run off into the weekend yet. Not until we look back at this week's big news in today's reporter's roundtable here on the Bill Press 5. The big news actually started the last Friday when President Trump fired America's top general, |
| 1:16.6 | plus top officers of the Navy and Air Force. |
| 1:18.6 | He'd already fired the head of the Coast Guard. |
| 1:21.6 | And then Elon Musk took his chainsaw to federal employees again, |
| 1:25.6 | ordering them to tell them five things they'd |
| 1:28.3 | accomplished last week or risk losing their jobs, which went too far even for a few Trump cabinet |
| 1:35.8 | members. In just three days, Trump welcomed the president of France, the prime minister of the |
| 1:41.1 | UK, and later today, the President of Ukraine to the White House, |
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