Today's top stories in US news, politics, government, and world affairs:
There are few problems more alarming in American society today than the severe lack of citizens who can reasonably be considered “informed”. Concurrently, the information being disseminated to a vast portion of Americans has shifted from accurate, well-sourced, impartial news to a vile mixture of sensationalist click-bait garbage, coupled with charlatan Tik-Tok users masquerading their poor opinions as facts. It’s no wonder why 75% of Americans agree with the statement that “the mainstream media is more interested in making money than telling the truth”. A functioning and healthy democracy cannot sustain itself without a well-informed population, and there’s so much more we need to do as a nation to increase the rate of literacy. This is no longer just an issue of misinformation; this is a fight for our democracy, for a revival of patriotism, and for the future of American exceptionalism.
Nepotism is defined as “favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship”. We know that of course nepotism has been pervasive in politics for decades, done consistently by both parties: Democratic President John F. Kennedy famously appointed his brother Robert Kennedy to be his Attorney General in the 1960s. Now, nepotism is not supposed to happen - there are laws and regulations in place to restrict appointments based on kinship across the country. But nepotism seems to be thriving more than ever in Trump world as President-Elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next month. And the choices he’s made recently, fueled in major part by nepotism, have raised eyebrows among Republicans and Democrats in Washington.
Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are serving as the co-chairs of DOGE, an acronym for the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk & Rawaswamy have been taking meetings with legislators and policy makers, and recently held talks with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. For the past few weeks the scope of DOGE, what they had proposed to change, and any specific ideas they had were relatively a secret. But now, the public has a clearer look at the proposed changes for 2025, as the Wall Street Journal has released DOGE’s 6 big ideas to impact the federal government, which I detail in this episode.
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