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Theodore Schleifer

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Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

of the bureaucracy by sort of taking a similar-ish institution that already existed and repurposing it for Musk's purposes.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

of the bureaucracy by sort of taking a similar-ish institution that already existed and repurposing it for Musk's purposes.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

of the bureaucracy by sort of taking a similar-ish institution that already existed and repurposing it for Musk's purposes.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

There is about 40 of these people, we think, who are working for Doge. That's funny.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

There is about 40 of these people, we think, who are working for Doge. That's funny.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

There is about 40 of these people, we think, who are working for Doge. That's funny.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

Yeah, but you can be working at 26 different agencies before breakfast. You know, a lot of these folks have multiple jobs simultaneously, multiple detail assignments simultaneously, and they sort of jump from, you know, DHS to, you know, the education department, depending on how the mood strikes them.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

Yeah, but you can be working at 26 different agencies before breakfast. You know, a lot of these folks have multiple jobs simultaneously, multiple detail assignments simultaneously, and they sort of jump from, you know, DHS to, you know, the education department, depending on how the mood strikes them.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

Yeah, but you can be working at 26 different agencies before breakfast. You know, a lot of these folks have multiple jobs simultaneously, multiple detail assignments simultaneously, and they sort of jump from, you know, DHS to, you know, the education department, depending on how the mood strikes them.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

You know, I think we're focusing a lot on the kind of the kids, as we call them, even though there are like official normal Washington types who are involved in this. I don't want to overstate it. There are also a good amount of people who are involved who are sort of just Elon friends who are maybe in unofficial capacities. Various people from Musk's social network are sort of involved.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

You know, I think we're focusing a lot on the kind of the kids, as we call them, even though there are like official normal Washington types who are involved in this. I don't want to overstate it. There are also a good amount of people who are involved who are sort of just Elon friends who are maybe in unofficial capacities. Various people from Musk's social network are sort of involved.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

You know, I think we're focusing a lot on the kind of the kids, as we call them, even though there are like official normal Washington types who are involved in this. I don't want to overstate it. There are also a good amount of people who are involved who are sort of just Elon friends who are maybe in unofficial capacities. Various people from Musk's social network are sort of involved.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

You know, Mark Andreessen has called himself an unpaid intern to Doge, the billionaire venture capitalist. You know, I think what their work is, what they're doing is pretty novel, obviously. And they're getting into lots of fights with the bureaucracy in a way that befits sort of the Silicon Valley mindset of disruption, right? That's the nice way to put it.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

You know, Mark Andreessen has called himself an unpaid intern to Doge, the billionaire venture capitalist. You know, I think what their work is, what they're doing is pretty novel, obviously. And they're getting into lots of fights with the bureaucracy in a way that befits sort of the Silicon Valley mindset of disruption, right? That's the nice way to put it.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

You know, Mark Andreessen has called himself an unpaid intern to Doge, the billionaire venture capitalist. You know, I think what their work is, what they're doing is pretty novel, obviously. And they're getting into lots of fights with the bureaucracy in a way that befits sort of the Silicon Valley mindset of disruption, right? That's the nice way to put it.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They are not believing that they need to go through the standard bureaucratic process of establishing a commission to investigate a task force to blah, blah, blah. They just want to go in and do it. A lot of the people involved share Musk's distaste and disdain for the status quo. I think we're seeing a lot of these people who have come in who have worked for Elon Musk in some capacity.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They are not believing that they need to go through the standard bureaucratic process of establishing a commission to investigate a task force to blah, blah, blah. They just want to go in and do it. A lot of the people involved share Musk's distaste and disdain for the status quo. I think we're seeing a lot of these people who have come in who have worked for Elon Musk in some capacity.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They are not believing that they need to go through the standard bureaucratic process of establishing a commission to investigate a task force to blah, blah, blah. They just want to go in and do it. A lot of the people involved share Musk's distaste and disdain for the status quo. I think we're seeing a lot of these people who have come in who have worked for Elon Musk in some capacity.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They're all kind of in Musk's image. And he's a, you know, he's a very, very divisive, polarizing leader. But there are people that surround Elon Musk have kind of a cultish devotion to him. And I think that we're seeing the reason these people are getting involved in Doge is because they love Elon Musk and they will do what Elon Musk tells them to do.

Fresh Air
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?

They're all kind of in Musk's image. And he's a, you know, he's a very, very divisive, polarizing leader. But there are people that surround Elon Musk have kind of a cultish devotion to him. And I think that we're seeing the reason these people are getting involved in Doge is because they love Elon Musk and they will do what Elon Musk tells them to do.