Guardrails

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Massive welfare fraud in Minnesota by Somali immigrants was not supposed to happen because of government “guardrails.” Political violence by an Afghan refugee was not supposed to happen because such people were vetted before being allowed into the US. And voter fraud won’t be a problem because there are safeguards to prevent it. Those three separate issues all prompt us to ask… What happens when those “guardrails” are missing, the “vetting” is left undone, or the “safeguards” ignored?

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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.
0:15.0	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.
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 Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.3	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	Hi, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down. Well, what do Somali fraud, political violence, and voter fraud have in common?
0:58.8	In each and every case, we've been told to trust the guardrails.
1:02.6	These things aren't supposed to happen.
1:04.7	Well, we've discovered that those guardrails are actually not there.
1:09.2	We're going to unpack that today, of course, with the host of this program, Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I mean, anytime we get to blame migrants for the problems plague in American society, it's a good day, guys. Welcome to the drill down. Well, today I want to focus on the guardrails that are supposed to be there. And I was thinking about visually what this looks like. And it's kind of like
1:27.7	you're on a mountain road and you're driving on this mountain road and there's actually no apparent
1:32.4	guardrail there. And you're told, no, no, don't worry about it. There's a guardrail there. Those
1:37.6	guardrails, we've been assured by the political establishment, we're going to prevent widespread
1:42.6	fraud, welfare fraud, which happened in
1:45.7	Minneapolis, is happening in lots of places. We were told at the same time that when we had this
1:52.7	mass migration, particularly from Afghanistan elsewhere, we were going to be vetting people.
1:58.1	Turns out, based on this terrorist attack that we had against the National
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