Trump 2.0: A Whiplash on Federal Spending

特朗普2.0:联邦支出的鞭打

The Journal.

2025-01-31

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Ryan Knutson and Molly Ball round up the week’s news including nomination hearings, inspectors general firings and the airplane crash in D.C. Plus, they speak to WSJ’s Washington coverage chief Damian Paletta about the administration's freeze on potentially trillions of dollars in government financial assistance. Further Listening: - Trump 2.0: A Fast Start to a Second Term  - Trump’s Immigration Overhaul  Further Reading: - White House Budget Freeze Tried to Flip Script on Busted Budget Process  - Trump Blames DEI, Democrats for Deadly Plane Crash  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Molly Ball, senior political correspondent.

  • How are you?

  • Pretty good, Ryan.

  • How you doing?

  • Great.

  • So Donald Trump has been president for 11 days.

  • Is it just me or does it feel like he's trying to do everything.

  • Everywhere all at once, just like the movie?

  • Which means we're also gonna get a proliferation of, like, clones with weird appendages.

  • Is that how this is gonna go?

  • Yeah, with hot hot dog fingers.

  • Is that coming soon?

  • That's right, the hot dogs.

  • Uh huh.

  • That must be the next executive order we should all look out for.

  • How would you say overall that things are going for him so far with this strategy?

  • I would say mixed.

  • I mean, Republicans and people in the administration are pretty thrilled with how it's going.

  • They feel like he's racking up wins.

  • Democrats are also sort of getting their moxie back because they see him as doing too much too fast, and they feel like this is gonna cause a backlash that's going to bring them back to relevance.