from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday,

November 13th. So America voted for change, you're going to get change. Here are a few examples of how much change is going to come or that

there now might be policy debates about. Last night, President Trump announced he would nominate

Iraq and Afghanistan war vet Pete Hegseth, best known as a Fox News host, to be Defense Secretary. On a podcast last Thursday,

Heg Seth said this about one way he would like to bring the military back to an old way of doing

things. I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. It hasn't made us

more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.

So America, are we ready to kick women out of eligibility for combat roles?

Here comes that debate, apparently. Also yesterday, Trump announced the creation of a new

Department of Government Efficiency to be led by Elon Musk and former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramoswamy.

Remember him? Here's Ramoswami from the closing statement in one of last year's Republican primary debates,

referencing what he says are the nation's unifying common ideals.

And this is our moment to revive those common ideals. God is real. There are two

genders. Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. I don't remember the fossil fuels

are only two genders, parts of the Declaration of Independence. I'll have to go back and reread it.

But what do we learn from that clip?

That it's not just about the issue in that campaign commercial, you know, the one that had

Harris supporting transgender surgeries for incarcerated people at taxpayer expense.

Here is a top Trump nominee saying no to trans or non-binary people as real human beings at all.

There are only two genders.

How might this relate to a Department of Government Efficiency?

Well, for example, Project 2025 denounces what it calls gender ideology and calls for no more

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