Mara Gay
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there is a pretty good legal case that Elon Musk should not even have access to be carrying out this purge that he is. And secondly, I would say that we have zero transparency. really, into how this is being done.
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Really, I think the message that the American people need to be hearing more is that all of this is being done, just slashing and burning, to essentially prepare the country for Donald Trump's tax cuts to the wealthy.
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and there's got to be a way to pay for that and what's going to happen is that everyday americans in their everyday lives are paying for it already we're seeing it in uh you know government services that are going to suffer already we've been seeing that the faa is really not up to the mark at the moment um they're being gutted medicaid medicare every part of the government that touches americans lives is about to be impacted and it's not clear yet that
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There's a broad realization of this outside of Washington, DC. But it's coming. And I think that's one of the questions that I have just as a journalist right now is, do everyday Americans in the rest of the country understand that this is going to impact their lives in ways they can't even imagine yet?
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That's part of our job is to explain that this is not just about government workers in Washington. This is about the IRS. This is about people's tax returns. This is about people's social security. Nothing is secure right now, and the government is not being remade to be efficient. This is an effort to destroy it.
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And I think that is the core message that Democrats need to be explaining every day in great detail. This is not an effort to make things more efficient. Every American understands there's ways to make government more efficient. Nobody is against that. But this is not an effort to do that.
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This is an effort to destroy the government so that it's easier for oligarchs and the Heritage Foundation to do whatever they wish.