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The DOGE Backlash Begins

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In town halls from Oregon to Georgia, people are letting Republicans know just how angry they are about the dramatic cuts to the federal government. And their displeasure is starting to sink Trump’s approval rating. Guest: Greg Bluestein, political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Ben Mathis-Lilley, senior writer for Slate. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You saw the clips, right? From all over the country.

0:11.0

American people voted for change in November.

0:19.0

These are recordings of one GOP congressperson after another, facing a whole lot of questions.

0:25.6

In some states, constituents were mad about the Trump administration grinding infrastructure

0:30.6

projects to a halt.

0:32.6

California's high-speed rail disaster is the worst public infrastructure failure in U.S. history.

0:40.3

In other places, the subject matter was more broad.

0:44.3

When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?

0:48.3

There were questions about separations of power, the Constitution, and Doge.

0:55.7

The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered already.

1:00.8

But in every state, voters were booing.

1:04.8

I think by and large this is moving very quickly compared to other administrations,

1:09.7

and I think across the board, he's done so very good things.

1:14.5

I think he got.

1:19.0

The first clip like this that I saw, it was from an old friend of the show, Greg Bluestin

1:28.7

from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He told me he ended up at a town hall for Representative

1:34.1

Rich McCormick because he had a little time before he had to pick up a kid from swimming.

1:39.7

Yeah, I went because there have been any town town halls in maybe six months or so in Georgia,

1:45.3

you know, not since the election. And so, you know, frankly, you go sometimes protectively.

1:49.5

You go just in case something happens. And there's plenty of events I go to that I never write

1:53.7

a word about. In this case, I walked in and I was like, oh, I will be writing about this

1:58.7

because it was such a spectacle.

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