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TMC - Episode 47 - The Swamp, part 3

April 07, 2025 • The Mad Centrist • Season 2025 • Episode 47

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The President of the United States. Mission #1, choose a cabinet.

The question: does this help fill the swamp or drain it?

This is part 3 of a look into Donald Trump's cabinet choices, and providing information for YOU to decide if this makes Washington D.C. more corrupt, or less corrupt?

Or is the swamp being drained, or filled?

We come to the end. Well, of cabinet members anyway.

Show Notes on the news:

Transportation using marriage and birth rates (towards the end): Scanned Document (BTW, the document title is there fault, not mine!)

Why that idea isn't so cool: How has marriage in the US changed over time? | USAFacts

Linda McMahon joins in the Dem presser: Linda McMahon Crashes Dem Press Conference Outside Education Department

Kristi Noem's bad handling of immigrants: Venezuelan migrant deported from U.S. to El Salvador has no criminal record, documents show - CBS News & Autism Policy and Politics: Trump Sends Baker with Autism Tattoo to a Hellhole in El Salvador

HHS makes FEMA take a lie detector test: FEMA chief given lie detector test after leak of private meeting - POLITICO

Rubio uses Diplomats as internet snitches: Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media - The New York Times

Mike Waltz didn't get the Signal Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world - POLITICO

Is Lutnik getting fired before, or after, Mike Waltz? This Trump Cabinet secretary could be 'forced to take the fall' for tariff chaos - Alternet.org

Is Scott Bessent firing himself fisrt? MSNBC Host Stephanie Ruhle Alleges Trump’s Treasury Sec ‘Looking for an Exit Door’