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The Michael Steele Podcast

A Moment Of Clarity: Project 2025: Exposing Accountability Hypocrisy

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele examines into the pressing issues surrounding FCC accountability and governance with a focus on Project 2025. The discussion highlights the irony of calls for accountability from those who resist it, as well as the ongoing deconstruction of governmental structures.

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Transcript

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And now, for a moment of clarity.

0:31.2

Welcome to the table. So if we if we could real quick put up the graphic from project 2025 again that lists the points that Simone laid out. And I want to focus on the last part, ensuring FCC accountability

0:39.7

and good governance. I find it's somewhat ironic, Senator, that, you know, they're talking about

0:45.6

accountability from people who don't want to be held accountable. And they're talking about good

0:50.1

governance when they're not governing, but deconstructing the government. And to the professor's

0:56.0

point, that's all consistent with this strategy, this longer-term strategy. Again, we've been talking

1:02.3

about Project 2025 since, what, I mean, 20... Since June of last year. June of last year. And the

1:09.6

reality of it is, it's playing out exactly as they said it would.

1:14.6

From your particular perch in the United States Senate,

1:17.5

what do you see in this moment beyond the alarm bells around, you know, the chemical firing?

1:24.0

But substantively, as a senator, what are the next things that you should be calling?

1:28.4

You think you should be calling for and expecting.

1:30.8

Since even though you're in the minority in the Senate, you have a little bit more juice, or as my friend Simone likes to say,

1:36.6

Jouge, than you may find your counterparts in the House.

1:40.5

How can you use those powers to expose more of this?

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