U.S. Government & Politics
Announcing “Deep Cuts,” a podcast unpacking the tearing down of the federal government—and how to build it back
“Deep Cuts” is a narrative audio documentary series from the Brookings Institution about what happens when the machinery of government is rapidly dismantled, downsized, or reshaped.
Each episode goes inside one federal agency or program affected by the Trump administration’s cuts and asks a deceptively simple set of questions: what did this thing actually do, and what happens when it stops, and what comes next?