2025-05-03
50 分钟You're about to listen to the voices of federal employees telling you about a government takeover unlike anything in modern American history.
Three cars pull up.
Doge is in the black car.
In the Tesla and in the Jeep Renegade are members of Intercon Security.
The Department of Government Efficiency was born of a conversation between Elon Musk and podcaster Joe Rogan and named after a mean coin.
It was created by executive order to cut a trillion dollars from US federal spending in the first year of Trump's administration.
By now,
you're probably familiar with headlines about Musk taking a chainsaw to budgets and eradicating apparently mind-blowing amounts of waste and fraud.
But what is it actually like when Doge comes calling?
The first night they were smoking cigars and drinking beers walking through the office.
They unplugged the televisions in our little kitchen galleys so that we couldn't see any news about what was happening.
They covered the logo with a trash bag.
They then went into a financial office and shredded documents.
They obliterated it.
I'm Rosie Bloor, and this is the Weekend Intelligence.
For the past 100 days,
our reporter Daniel Knowles has been documenting the actions of Musk Stoge.
He's gathered first-hand accounts from the staffers who watched as teams of 20-somethings with temporary badges arrived to upend the nation's institutions.
It's hard to reconcile all the people around me acting like everything's normal.
and what I've seen about a collapsing American government.