Trump v China, Musk and DOGE, Ukraine Peace Deal

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Mike and Justin open with a discussion of yet another wild week for the world economy, largely due to instability caused by President Trump’s changing positions on trade and the economy. He hates the Fed Chair he appointed but won’t fire him (even though he claims he can), says the US is talking with China, which China denies, and is now dealing with multiple lawsuits challenging his authority to impose broad-based sanctions using emergency powers. Next they turn to what appears to be Elon Musk’s coming departure from DOGE. They look at how DOGE’s work has affected Musk, how much DOGE has actually saved, and whether it was ever about efficiency, as opposed to control. They close with a look at the latest Ukraine peace deal, which seems more like a demand that Ukraine surrender more than anything else. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Mike’s Substack: What Fresh Hell is This? Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal,
0:04.9	gulag.
0:05.1	I'm the government, hug the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government,
0:09.8	love the government, hug the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:18.7	I'm Northern Kentucky University Political Scientist, Michael
0:21.4	Barronowski. I'm joined today by University of Northern Iowa political scientist Justin Holmes.
0:27.8	Good morning. Hey, Justin. How are you doing this morning? Oh, I'm doing pretty well. How are you?
0:32.2	I'm doing it okay. I'm looking forward to doing this show with you. I'm sort of a late fill in for Jay, who had some
0:39.5	other things come up, but I am primed and pumped and ready to go. And admittedly, more than a
0:46.8	little distracted by the NFL draft, which I tend to follow far more closely than is probably
0:52.9	good for me. But I'm still up to date on what's going on politically, even with the draw of will Aaron
0:59.3	Rogers or will he not become the Steelers next quarterback?
1:03.1	God, I hope not.
1:03.8	But anyway, I'm putting that.
1:05.6	Oddly, I watch most of it too, and I'm not a sports guy.
1:08.0	So, yeah, it's been quite the thing.
1:09.9	Yeah, there you go. But on this
1:12.2	draft weekend, we have a lot to talk about politically, certainly. Before we do, though, I want to say
1:17.5	thanks to Jake. He's been a Patreon supporter for a while, recently decided to increase his level
1:23.7	support. Jake, we really do appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right. So, you know,
1:29.1	it's been yet another up and down week for financial markets that uncertainty, dare I say,
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