Tag: Matthew Yglesias

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Vox co-founder and editor Matthew Yglesias and Politico reporter Eliana Johnson about embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and the fear of a "blue wave" in Wisconsin. Now let's talk about some of the ways President Trump is changing policy and Washington. YGLESIAS: Well, you know, I think you see on some of these issues that I think what the president is doing is using public statements to force members of his administration to start working on things that they've been trying to slow-walk. CORNISH: Eliana, for you? But this is a case where everybody around the president is telling him that it's time for Scott Pruitt to go, and the president is resisting. CORNISH: Getting out of Washington for a bit, there was an election in Wisconsin this week where the Democratic-backed candidate won a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court. But the results garnered a high-profile response in this case from Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker. YGLESIAS: I mean, you know, this is yet another race in a swing state this time where you see, you know, Democrats just doing really well in down-ballot races. And feelings about the president have driven a lot more interest among Democrats in these kinds of races that were falling below the radar. CORNISH: Eliana Johnson is national political reporter for Politico, Matt Yglesias of Vox.