Tech Bros Tasked With Gutting Government

科技兄弟的任务是摧毁政府

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2024-11-13

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President-elect Donald Trump announced more appointments on Tuesday, giving us a fuller picture of what his incoming administration is going to look like (tl;dr: It's bad). One cabinet spot that’s still open, though: Secretary of Education. Whoever gets the job, they’ll likely be tasked with implementing Trump's campaign promise to close the Department of Education, a long-time GOP goal that dates back to the Reagan Era. Erica Meltzer, national editor at Chalkbeat, explains why keeping that promise will be pretty difficult. And in headlines: Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego is headed to the Senate, the New York judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial delayed a decision on dismissing the president-elect’s conviction, and the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil says the incoming Trump administration should avoid drastic changes to American climate policy.

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  • It's Wednesday, November 13th.

  • I'm Jane Coston and this is what a day.

  • The show that is lowering our flag to half mast in observance of West Virginia Senator elect Jim Justice's canine named baby dog being barred from the Senate floor.

  • Dogs may not belong on the Senate floor, but they do belong in our hearts.

  • On today's show, the votes for the 119th Congress are still being tallied.

  • And even oil executives are asking Trump not to overhaul the country's climate change regulations.

  • Let's get into it.

  • President elect Donald Trump made up a department for his good friends Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.

  • Get it?

  • Like dogecoin.

  • I'm sure Elon finds it very funny.

  • Anyway, Trump says it'll be the, quote, Manhattan Project of our time.

  • I desperately, desperately hope it is not the Manhattan Project of our time for many, many reasons.

  • And Trump continues to fill out his Cabinet.

  • He's expected to choose Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, but that hasn't been made official yet.

  • If Trump does choose Rubio, he would be the first Latino to hold the position.

  • It would also make him the first Secretary of State to have ever been called Little Marco by the President.

  • Trump plans to nominate South Dakota governor and Trump loyalist Kristi Noem for Secretary of Homeland Security.

  • She's known for killing her puppy and writing about it in her memoir.

  • Other Cabinet picks as of Tuesday include former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for US Ambassador to Israel, former Congressman John Ratcliffe for Director of the CIA, and Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, to do the very unimportant job of Secretary of Defense.