13: Private Equity Tapped to Fund US Military Infrastructure Revamp Elizabeth Peek, Fox News and The Hill, with John Batchelor Peek discusses the US Army's initiative to attract $150 billion from private equity giants for infrastructure upgrades, including da

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

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Private Equity Tapped to Fund US Military Infrastructure Revamp Elizabeth Peek, Fox News and The Hill, with John Batchelor Peek discusses the US Army's initiative to attract $150 billion from private equity giants for infrastructure upgrades, including data centers, leveraging private capital for necessary long-term investments. She notes the US economy shows accelerating growth, defying recession predictions, fueled by strategic investments in technology and domestic manufacturing. Peek also critiques the "No Kings" protest as a politically weak movement lacking a concrete agenda beyond expressing frustration with Trump.

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0:00.0	This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Betts with Elizabeth Peek of the Hill of Fox News and much on
0:10.2	Fox Business writing. Her column is in Lizpeak.com where she gathers all her columns about no kings.
0:18.0	It was a puzzle to me and what it meant for a long time. And then when they had a repeat,
0:23.7	kind of like rinse and repeat no Kings, I paid attention. It was a beautiful day in many of
0:28.0	the photographs I saw. And people were out in their casual gear. It was warm where a lot of people
0:33.8	were, carrying funny signs and big representations of the president. But I'd never quite
0:40.6	caught a theme that I understood. Liz, what was the theme besides walking around in the sunshine
0:47.6	and enjoying the company of your colleagues? What was the theme of the event? Was it a protest? Was it a
0:53.6	celebration? Was it feel good? Was it a celebration? Was it
0:54.9	feel good? How did it present itself? Well, I think it was basically a protest against Donald Trump.
1:06.2	And I think the weakness of it is that that was it. There was no, there's no agenda.
1:14.5	And of course, people like myself have been saying this all year about the Democrats.
1:20.0	They don't have leadership and they don't have an agenda.
1:23.6	And it was interesting to me to watch Democrat leaders,
1:28.3	Hakeem Jeffries comes to mind.
1:30.3	Maybe there were others sort of afterwards saying,
1:32.3	wow, we really showed them, we really showed them that we have a message going forward.
1:38.3	What was the message? I have no idea, honestly, because it,
1:43.3	because all they have is sort of hatred of Donald Trump.
1:48.5	They accuse him of being a fascist.
1:50.4	They accused him of being a king.
1:52.7	I kind of went through how actually he was democratically elected president who won a majority of the country voters in 2024. So it doesn't really look
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