Ten Days That Shook the World: Jeffrey Tucker on Trump’s Challenge to the Administrative State

On February 24, 2025, Darcy Schoening (Colorado State GOP), Jeffrey Tucker (Brownstone Institute), Susan Harris (Show Sponsor), and Cookie Lockhart (United Country Real Estate) joined the show. Schoening discussed her candidacy for Colorado State GOP Chair and her work raising $200,000 for the Build Our Benches initiative focused on school board elections across the state Tucker analyzed how Trump’s team spent four years planning strategic moves that challenged over a century of bureaucratic precedent, including unprecedented access.

The Administrative State Under Fire

Start listening at 30:55 – Hour 1 Tucker, author of a new Epoch Times piece titled “Ten Days That Shook the World,” explained how the Trump transition team spent four years planning strategic moves that have challenged over a century of bureaucratic precedent. The administration privately financed its transition to avoid deep state infiltration, rejected FBI vetting of appointees, and maintained complete secrecy about their plans.

Most remarkably, Tucker revealed that within minutes of taking office, Trump’s team entered the Treasury Department’s payment systems, a domain that no elected official or appointee had accessed since 1945. The fiscal assistant secretary position, which controls all federal payments, had been held exclusively by career bureaucrats for 85 years.

“What is really at issue right now is whether and to what extent, the duly elected president is allowed to be president. I mean, you wouldn’t think that would be a question, but that is the driving question of our age.”Jeffrey Tucker
Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute

Colorado GOP Leadership

Start listening at 17:10 – Hour 1 Darcy Schoening, Director of Special Initiatives for the Colorado State GOP, discussed her candidacy for State Chair. She emphasized the need for party leaders who will put in the work, noting her efforts to raise $200,000 for the Build Our Benches initiative focused on school board elections.

“We need people that are willing to do the work, the people that are willing to take the media hits, the people that are willing to take the calls at 2 in the morning.”Darcy Schoening

Bureaucracy vs. Democracy

Start listening at 72:39 – Hour 2 Show sponsor Susan Harris joined from Arizona to discuss the transformation underway in Washington. She expressed hope that Trump’s aggressive start will have lasting effects on returning government to the people.

“But the fact that they were able to get the confirmation through is, in my opinion, a real miracle.”Susan Harris
Susan Harris, Show Sponsor

Steamboat Springs Icon

Start listening at 103:20 – Hour 2 The episode concluded with Hall of Fame auctioneer Cookie Lockhart, a Steamboat Springs icon whose father was the town’s first ranch broker in the 1930s. She expressed gratitude for the direction of the country under Trump and Musk’s leadership.

Colorado Legislative Alert

Kim warned about House Bill 25-1225, the “Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act,” which she argues could prevent citizens from canvassing elections and examining vote counting processes. With 497 bills introduced this session, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers continues its volunteer work reviewing legislation.