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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

DOGE is more than tough love

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the annals of government reform efforts, the efforts of Elon Musk and his task force of DOGE techies are more than tough love. Because the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has (mostly) been given access to the books of government agencies, it has spotted billions of dollars in questionable grants, make-work programs, and outright gifts to politically connected activists who provided political support to their government paymasters. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss a few examples, but also address a deeper question: “So what?”

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.0

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

0:09.0

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

0:16.0

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

0:22.6

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

0:27.6

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

0:31.6

and we're going to try to go further.

0:34.6

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

0:38.3

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

0:45.3

This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

0:49.3

Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the drill down. Doge continues to make headlines.

0:55.3

The Department of Government Efficiency is looking to save us tens of billions of dollars.

1:00.5

But you know what?

1:01.5

That's not the most valuable service they're performing.

1:04.3

What Doge is doing is uncovering massive political money laundering. And joining us here to talk about that as a co-host of this program, Eric Eggers. Eric, I'm sure you have a lot of experience with money laundering. You know, I wish I did have a lot of experience with money laundering because I think if you have experience with money laundering, that means you're good with money. Like, you have a lot of extra money. You have a lot of money to launder. I unfortunately have the opposite problem. I'm not saying I'm good with money. Like you have a lot of extra money. You have a lot of money to I unfortunately have the opposite problem. I'm not saying I'm bad with money. I'm saying to promote

1:32.3

this podcast, I took out an aggressive and expensive advertising schedule recently. Unfortunately,

1:37.5

it was on the Joy Reed television show and there's no takebacks. So see you later on that one.

1:44.0

Well, you know, Doge is a really interesting phenomenon.

1:47.3

It's getting a lot of attention, a lot of focus. They're announcing, you know, things that they've

1:53.2

uncovered every single day. And there's also a little bit of pushback. You know, you found this

1:57.9

piece from Axios where they are, you know are essentially saying, you know, their proposed

2:04.0

cuts are lots of drips of water in America's overflowing bucket of debt. And they go on to talk

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