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Top DOGE: Trump Backs Musk to Cabinet

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

President Trump turns his first cabinet meeting over to Elon Musk, instructing secretaries to implement wide-ranging layoffs. A Georgia family accuses a railroad of forcing them off their land for commercial gain. And a new study shows America stopping its trend away from organized religion.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Thursday, February 27th, and Elon Musk's layoffs are just the beginning. We start here.

0:39.0

In his first cabinet meeting, President Trump instructs his secretaries to fire more workers.

0:45.2

Those people are on the bubble, as they say, you know, they're going to be gone.

0:49.5

Our Mary Bruce was one of the few reporters in the room. They've owned their land since the end of slavery.

0:55.6

Could it really be taken from them?

0:57.6

It'll be coming out of this fence line right here.

1:00.0

This will be the train.

1:01.6

The controversial move that appears perfectly legal,

1:04.9

and Christian churches have been living on a prayer.

1:07.4

They've said, if that's what religion is,

1:09.2

I don't want to have anything to do with it.

1:10.7

But could modern conservatives be more likely to take a leap of faith?

1:16.4

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

1:24.7

A central question since President Trump's inauguration has been, how much weight does Elon Musk's voice carry?

1:34.0

He'd been deemed a special government employee, but the agency he was tasked with overseeing,

1:39.0

the Department of Government Efficiency, is really just a revamped acronym.

1:42.8

Until January, it was an agency you'd likely never heard of called the U.S. Digital Agency

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