What Did We Learn From DOGE?

The Reason Roundtable

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Reason Roundtable.
0:09.0	This is the podcast of Free Minds, Free Markets, and Free Takes.
0:12.2	I'm your host, Peter Souterman, and we have a great show lined up for you this week.
0:16.9	In today's episode, we are going to talk about Doge.
0:19.3	Elon Musk is stepping back.
0:39.9	What, if anything, did we learn? We're also going to talk about the new GOP tax bill. Does it increase the deficit? You can probably guess. And we're going to take a big picture view of a question that is on a lot of people's minds these days. What in the world are classical liberals and libertarians supposed to do about all of this?
0:44.7	We're also going to take a listener question about manufacturing jobs and check in on the latest on Trump's China tariffs. I think they're off this week, maybe partially off. Plus so much more. Joining me to
0:50.2	talk about all of this are my illustrious colleagues, Catherine Mangy Ward, Nick Gillespie, and
0:55.4	Matt Welch. Everybody say hello. Howdy? Hey, hello.
1:02.6	Happy Monday to everyone who enjoyed the Chicago Pope memes. Good job, internet. That was so wholesome.
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