Is This An 'Administrative Coup'?

这是“行政政变”吗?

What A Day

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2025-02-06

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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has seemingly been waging a personal war on the federal government via his Department of Government Efficiency. In the last few weeks, he and his team have urged millions of federal workers to resign, fed the U.S. Agency for International Development 'into the wood chipper,' and gotten access the Treasury Department’s secure payment system. And on Wednesday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Musk's DOGE team would soon ‘plug in’ to the air traffic control system. Charlie Warzel, a staff writer at The Atlantic covering tech and media, says Musk's actions amount to 'an administrative coup.' Later in the show, Crooked Media’s news editor, Greg Walters, shares stories from federal workers dealing with the fallout. And in headlines: The White House does damage control over Trump’s plans for the U.S. to ‘take over the Gaza Strip,’ the president signed yet another executive order targeting trans kids, and Scotland says it’s not banning cats.
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  • It's Thursday, February 6th.

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

  • The show wondering what possibly could have motivated Greenland to ban foreign political donations ahead of its March elections,

  • beats us on today's show because it's a day that ends in y.

  • Trump signed yet another executive order targeting trans kids.

  • And the White House does some damage control over Trump's plans for the US to take over the Gaza Strip.

  • But let's start with Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a man who once offered to impregnate Taylor Swift.

  • And now he's apparently the co president of the United States of America.

  • Of course, the actual President of the United States is Donald Trump.

  • And yet it's Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or doge, that seem to be in charge.

  • On Wednesday,

  • lawmakers complained that Musk and his allies are knee deep in the payment systems of the Treasury Department.

  • And in the words of Musk himself, he's putting the United States Agency for International Development,

  • or usaid, quote, into the wood chipper.

  • He's infiltrated the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration.

  • And on Wednesday,

  • Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced that Doge is apparently taking on the US Air traffic control system.

  • An unelected billionaire and some dudes he likes, quote, plugging in to the air traffic control system.

  • What could possibly go wrong?

  • In fact, that's the thing, isn't it?