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As Elon Musk exits the White House and has a very public falling out with Donald Trump, the consequences of his time there won't be fully realized for a while.

But, there is one place to start where, when history looks back, may be the most talked about thing—the death toll from diseases spread around the world by Musk ending USAID.

Grant breaks down what we know about the cost of shutting the agency and revisits an interview with former Deputy Administrator of USAID Jim Kunder, whose interview from Feb. 8 is just as, if not more, relevant today.

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Back from a short hiatus!

Grant talks all about how we're seeing the White House, which has been moving as fast as it can to break things, start to come apart by picking fights with prominent groups, its own agencies, and its insiders.

He breaks down the White House fight with the influential conservative group the Federalist Society and why it matters for the future of the more than 120 court cases Trump is involved in.

Then, he talks about Stephen Miller's blow-up with Immigration officials over not arresting *enough* people and how that's causing a lot of confusion in Trump's immigration plan.

Finally, the biggest news of the week so far. Elon Musk calls for Trump to be impeached and replaced with JD Vance. Musk, having just been booted from the administration, is running a scorched earth playbook over the "Big Beautiful Bill," making its way through the Senate, and has decided to try and drag Trump down with it.

Buckle up, folks, this one's a doozy.

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The idea that manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas or across borders to other countries is a frequent explanation from both Republicans and Democrats about why the American middle class has been hollowed out.

But it's a convenient half-truth. The other side we don't talk about is the other kind of offshoring, from the shores of the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

Grant talks to Middlebury College Associate Professor Gary Winslett, whose new article for the Washington Post is all about this other offshoring and why we should be talking more about it. Their conversation is a deep dive into why manufacturing left the Midwest for the South, how the new talk of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance mindset fits into all this, and whether the leaders of both parties are just too old to see a way forward.

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Manufacturing is thriving in the South. Here's why neither party can admit it.

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