Derek Thompson

I think if you talk to people at Doge or talk to people who are authors of Project 2025, who are at Heritage, who are chiefs of staff of the people working for Heritage, if you have a truth serum conversation with these folks and you say, defend what's happening. This is what they're saying. They're saying something metastatic.

has grown inside of government, not just over the last few years under Joe Biden, but over the last few decades, maybe going all the way back to FDR and even Woodrow Wilson. We have allowed an administrative state to accumulate like barnacles on a ship around the executive branch. And it's keeping the executive branch from being able to translate the democratic will into policy.

has grown inside of government, not just over the last few years under Joe Biden, but over the last few decades, maybe going all the way back to FDR and even Woodrow Wilson. We have allowed an administrative state to accumulate like barnacles on a ship around the executive branch. And it's keeping the executive branch from being able to translate the democratic will into policy.

has grown inside of government, not just over the last few years under Joe Biden, but over the last few decades, maybe going all the way back to FDR and even Woodrow Wilson. We have allowed an administrative state to accumulate like barnacles on a ship around the executive branch. And it's keeping the executive branch from being able to translate the democratic will into policy.

Because there's never any president who is purely elected by the people. They're elected into an office that is already pre-contaminated by the bureaucracy itself. And we're trying to take all of that away.

Because there's never any president who is purely elected by the people. They're elected into an office that is already pre-contaminated by the bureaucracy itself. And we're trying to take all of that away.

Because there's never any president who is purely elected by the people. They're elected into an office that is already pre-contaminated by the bureaucracy itself. And we're trying to take all of that away.

We're trying to I mean, this is this is very just explicitly the case they're going to make trying to make government more democratic, not less by allowing the democratic, the elected president guide in a lead in a pure way.

We're trying to I mean, this is this is very just explicitly the case they're going to make trying to make government more democratic, not less by allowing the democratic, the elected president guide in a lead in a pure way.

We're trying to I mean, this is this is very just explicitly the case they're going to make trying to make government more democratic, not less by allowing the democratic, the elected president guide in a lead in a pure way.

One of the big problems of the FDA is slow approval of phase three clinical trial drugs, right? Everyone in this country who believes in science and technology wants the most life-saving drugs to be brought into the public marketplace as soon as possible and competed against with other drugs so the price comes down and helps to extend people's lives and health spans.

One of the big problems of the FDA is slow approval of phase three clinical trial drugs, right? Everyone in this country who believes in science and technology wants the most life-saving drugs to be brought into the public marketplace as soon as possible and competed against with other drugs so the price comes down and helps to extend people's lives and health spans.

One of the big problems of the FDA is slow approval of phase three clinical trial drugs, right? Everyone in this country who believes in science and technology wants the most life-saving drugs to be brought into the public marketplace as soon as possible and competed against with other drugs so the price comes down and helps to extend people's lives and health spans.

I think everyone agrees that that is an outcome worth fighting for. And if they don't, certainly, Ezra and I are willing to say that's an outcome that we want. That's what we want from our science policy. What happens if you cut probationary employees at the FDA? The FDA doesn't become more efficient.

I think everyone agrees that that is an outcome worth fighting for. And if they don't, certainly, Ezra and I are willing to say that's an outcome that we want. That's what we want from our science policy. What happens if you cut probationary employees at the FDA? The FDA doesn't become more efficient.

I think everyone agrees that that is an outcome worth fighting for. And if they don't, certainly, Ezra and I are willing to say that's an outcome that we want. That's what we want from our science policy. What happens if you cut probationary employees at the FDA? The FDA doesn't become more efficient.

It becomes less efficient because the same amount of work spread over fewer people means longer delays in terms of approving phase three clinical trial drugs and deciding whether or not to approve them for public consumption. So in this really, really clear and very specific example, I think we can see the problem with not having articulated goals.

It becomes less efficient because the same amount of work spread over fewer people means longer delays in terms of approving phase three clinical trial drugs and deciding whether or not to approve them for public consumption. So in this really, really clear and very specific example, I think we can see the problem with not having articulated goals.

It becomes less efficient because the same amount of work spread over fewer people means longer delays in terms of approving phase three clinical trial drugs and deciding whether or not to approve them for public consumption. So in this really, really clear and very specific example, I think we can see the problem with not having articulated goals.

You don't know whether the job to be done is to take away employees or to add them. I think if instead what Doge had done is come in and say, you know what, Elon Musk and a bunch of other people from Silicon Valley, one thing we take very seriously is the importance of scientific and technological progress.