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MOMocrats.com was launched in September 2007 as a national collaborative blog for progressive mom bloggers to write about politics from a mom's perspective. The MOMocrats MOMochat podcast has been produced weekly since 2010 and is hosted by Donna Schwartz Mills along with Karoli and Aliza Worthington from CrooksAndLiars.com. The podcast is part of the Demcast family of podcasts.

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Drowning in the Bathtub

January 31, 2025 • MOMocrats • Season 13 • Episode 3

The Right has been squawking about reducing the size of the Federal government for decades ("I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.")

For the last 11 days, President Musk and his elderly companion have been attempting to do just that, Twitter style. Grandpa gets the headlines for abruptly freezing all discretionary Federal spending and illegally firing Inspector Generals and other officials who are tasked with making government run smoothly (and rooting out corruption). And just to torture the country a little more, these moves keep occurring in the middle of the night.

The problem is: the Federal government is not a business. It cannot be run like one, and we certainly shouldn't be using Xitter as a model. Radically reducing the government workforce can have deadly consequences.

We're not saying that inducing the head of the FAA to resign on January 20, withholding funds, and harassing the rest of the workforce is the reason for Wednesday's deadly midair collision at National Airport -- but it can't have helped.

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills try to tackle a little of this week's chaos, which included Washington's newest reality show, "Are You Incompetent Enough to Be In Trump's Cabinet?" And a discussion on whether the loyal opposition is putting up enough of a fight (they started to show some life this week - but is it enough?)

MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the Demcast family of podcasts.