Research that resonates.

He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.

Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably

done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers.

Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.

We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,

and we're going to try to go further.

Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it. Thank God.

Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

Hello and welcome to The Drill Down, as you may be able to surmise. My name is Eric Eggers.

I'm not Peter Schweitzer.

Peter Schweitzer out one more week.

He's out there investigating cronism and corruption and can't wait to share with you his latest blockbuster findings next week.

In the meantime, I am so excited to be joined by someone who has a level of expertise

on a story that caught my eye

and can't wait to get into a kind of a surprising announcement from President Donald Trump

recently. President Trump has ordered, at least he's going to try to order, that credit card

companies are going to cap credit card interest rates at 10% starting on January 20th,

2026. Now, when I first saw this, it kind of reminded me of another pronouncement. Donald Trump

floated the idea of the 50-year mortgage, which I thought at the time, man, terrible idea,

but I could see the banks loving it. And I sort of had the opposite reaction to this idea.

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