federal government
4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 15, 2024 by Jessica Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about federal government, oldest first
Nov 15, 2024 negative
Jessica Lessin: Constitutional laws will prevent Elon Musk from slashing federal government
“Listeners of the pod should know that our very informed sources Don't think he will do the same to the federal government because the Constitution as well as many other federal statutes are very specific about how the federal budget works.”
Feb 7, 2025 bullish
Dave Morin: DOGE's technical instrumentation will improve federal government decisions
“For maybe the first time in American history, we've got a really fantastic technical team going and just instrumenting things so that there might be a dashboard that we can all just look at and ask the question, like, what is that money going to over there? Wh…”
Feb 7, 2025 positive
Jessica Lessin: Federal payments to Politico were subscriptions, not subsidies or grants
“One of these payments was to Politico, the news organization, and so instantly the narrative was that the government was subsidizing, giving grants, giving money, to Politico... So what it was, Dave, is that this agency bought a product from Politico through t…”
Aug 28, 2026 negative
Sam Lessin argues representative democracy cannot function at a 300 million scale
“The federal government isn't designed to do these types of things. States are. Communities are. They've all been blown up in favor of kind of national integrated economy, and the problem is the federal government is just not set up, and it's, you can't do a de…”