Purge Now, Pay Later

即刻清理,事后结算

Radio Atlantic

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2025-02-06

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Parts of the federal government are being dismantled. But although the decisions from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are unusual—perhaps even unprecedented—are they constitutional? The Atlantic staff writers Jonathan Chait and Shane Harris break down the administration’s latest moves and who might really end up paying for them later. Read more from Chait and Harris about this story on The Atlantic here and here. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Today is the deadline for some 2 million federal employees to decide

  • if they want to type resign in response to that now infamous fork in the road email.

  • The email, of course, is one in a list of things that Elon Musk,

  • empowered by President Trump, has been doing in order to disrupt the federal government.

  • People were trying to shrink government and he can probably shrink it as well as anybody else else,

  • if not better.

  • Where we think there's, for example, gain access to the US Treasury's payment system.

  • Treasury Secretary Scott Besant reportedly granting Elon Musk's DOGE team access

  • to the federal government's payment system,

  • which handles trillions of dollars in payments that dismantle usaid, of which Trump is not a fan.

  • And we're getting them out.

  • Usaid, run by radical lunatics.

  • And we get.

  • And neither is Musk.

  • Go to Apple, let's go to women.

  • You can take the amount, but if.

  • You'Ve got actually just a ball of worms, it's hopeless.

  • And USID is a ball of worms.

  • There is no Apple.

  • And when there is no apple, you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing.