Trump versus D.C.

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On this episode, President Trump has called Washington’s D.C. a ‘rat-infested…sh—hole’. Over $1 billion in city funding earmarked for 2025 has been held up by Republican lawmakers and the federal workforce is being decimated. Today, the gang is joined by local reporters Meagan Flynn and Emily Davies to make sense of the Trump administration’s complex and at times combative relationship with the nation’s capital.

Washington’s federal workforce is reeling, with mass layoffs already announced and implemented across government agencies. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, continues to create fear, chaos and confusion amongst government employees.

Plus, Trump signs an Executive Order aimed at shuttering the Department of Education. We tell you what that means, and why it matters.

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0:00.0	he's bringing back cats
0:01.9	and fan to the opera
0:05.4	and he doesn't like Hamilton.
0:07.1	Nice. Although, when I heard him in that clip
0:09.6	say, I really didn't like Hamilton,
0:11.7	I thought to myself,
0:12.8	but Hamilton is the reason why
0:14.9	you have that 1798 alien enemies act.
0:19.5	Look what happened.
0:20.9	Is this crazy?
0:22.6	We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history.
0:27.5	Make America great again.
0:30.5	How can you be against them?
0:35.5	Is President Trump at war with Washington, D.C.?
0:39.3	Now, let's separate the federal government and the beautiful capital of the nation from the city itself, the people who live here, the people who work in the District of Columbia.
0:48.3	Here's what Donald Trump said about D.C. on the campaign trail.
0:52.3	Right now, it's a rat infested, graffiti infested shi
0:57.4	all. And then Trump promised to take the city away from the mayor. But fast forward to the present
1:03.3	day, he is the president. And the DC mayor is doing this really careful dance to work with
1:08.8	the White House and she's even earning some praise from President Trump.
1:13.8	Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post. I'm your host, Libby Casey, and I'm here with Rhonda
1:18.1	Colvin, senior political correspondent, James Homan, columnist, and editorial writer. And we're also
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