Trump’s government purge
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Donald Trump said he'd end the war in Ukraine in his first 24 hours in office. He did not. He also said he'd immediately slash grocery prices. Yet my eggs keep costing more, Donald. But he has delivered on a bunch of other promises. If you heard yesterday's Today Explained, you know the pardons are flowing as are the deportations, and he's really shaking up the federal government. He fired a dozen or maybe more inspectors general late Friday night with zero notice. That's not even legal. On Monday, he fired another dozen or so prosecutors who worked with Jack Smith, They can sue and their lawyers, so probably. And then he also just issued a pause in federal grants, loans, and financial assistance, apparently until his administration can make sure all that money is being doled out in line with their priorities. But he's also trying to deliver on that ancient promise of his to drain the swamp. And that is where we are going to focus our energy on the show today.
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Today Explained, Sean Ramos from here once again with Andrew Prokop, senior correspondent at Vox. Andrew, we've seen lots of pardons. We've seen deportation. How is Trump, too, doing so far on reshaping the federal government?
Trump has come out the gate very aggressively in his first week in office, but in ways that I believe are only the tip of the iceberg. I think that he and the people around him, most notably people from Silicon Valley, have very grandiose ambitions to reshape the federal government. And we are seeing the beginning of those plans being put into action, but not yet anywhere near the end.
When you talk about people from Silicon Valley, are you talking about Elon Musk, who, of course, is still in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, RIP Vivek Uncle, which, of course, pledged to cut two trillion from the federal workforce? Or are we talking about something else?
Elon Musk has been installed at Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, which is in practice a rebranding of the United States Digital Service. It got a mission statement, which is about modernizing government technology, but it's been pretty quiet so far from them. We don't know exactly what they're up to yet. But... Musk's efforts are being undertaken in concert with various other appointees at other agencies who have been much more aggressive getting started very quickly. So the most dramatic stuff so far has come from the United States Office of Personnel Management, OPM. This is kind of like a sleepy, process-minded agency that oversees the federal civil service government. benefits, HR, practices for hiring, and not generally an action center for big, controversial policy fights within the American government until now. So let me go through a Instruction that almost all remote work has to end and federal employees must return to government offices five days a week.
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