Elon Musk and his team have taken a hacksaw to the federal bureaucracy one agency at a time, and the question has become whether he’s on a crusade that will leave the government paralyzed or deliver a shake-up it has needed for years.
Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York Times, takes us inside this hostile takeover of Washington.
Guests: Jonathan Swan (https://www.nytimes.com/by/jonathan-swan) , a White House reporter for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Inside Mr. Musk’s aggressive incursion (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html) into the federal government.
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