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How Science And Technology Policy Stands To Change Under Trump

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(Left to right) Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos, Larry Page of Alphabet, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, President-elect Donald Trump and Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, during meetings at Trump Tower in New York in December 2016. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
(Left to right) Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos, Larry Page of Alphabet, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, President-elect Donald Trump and Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, during meetings at Trump Tower in New York in December 2016. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

From immigration changes to broadband rules to tax law, technology leaders are carefully watching how the Trump agenda unfolds.

Under the former White House, one little-known department called the Office of Science and Technology Policy became a main resource when determining policies that would affect Silicon Valley. But the office has since shriveled.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Tony Romm (@TonyRomm), senior editor of policy and politics for Recode, about the OSTP, how it is changing and what that means for technology policy.

This segment aired on April 4, 2017.

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