Trump’s First 100 Days: How DOGE Has Changed Government

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Donald Trump has given Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency far-reaching authority to fire federal workers without cause and gain access to the confidential information of millions of Americans. The effect has been a wide-scale bulldozing of the federal government. In looking back on the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, we talk with reporters from Wired magazine, who have broken some of the biggest stories on what DOGE is doing, about what is going on and why. Guests: Makena Kelly, politics reporter, WIRED Zoë Schiffer, director of business and industry, WIRED; She oversees coverage of business and Silicon Valley. author, "Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter." Vittoria Elliott, platforms and power reporter, Wired Magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Donald Trump has now crossed 100 days in office during his second term.
0:51.7	Much of what he's done has not been a surprise and was part of
0:55.3	the broader Republican project described in detail in Project 2025. However, Elon Musk's so-called
1:04.2	Department of Government efficiency and the way it seized control of agency systems has come as a surprise.
1:12.2	No one has done more to document what's happening than Wired Magazine's reporters,
1:16.6	and this morning they join us.
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1:35.1	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:37.1	Before the Trump administration began, it was not at all clear what the so-called Department of Government Efficiency would be. It had two nominal heads,
1:46.8	Elon Musk and Vivek Ramoswamy, no offices, no statutory authority. Its acronym Doge suggested
1:54.3	it could be as much a joke as anything. Maybe it would be a kind of commission suggesting cuts
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