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Feb 2025
32m 30s

How Elon Musk Is Infiltrating Washington

The New York Times
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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, a White House reporter for The New York Times.

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