How Federalist CEO Sean Davis Wrote The Law That Opened The Door For DOGE

Federalist Radio Hour

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle dive behind the scenes into the key bipartisan legislation that paved the way for Americans to audit federal bureaucrats. T explain how agencies like USAID are still trying to hide their abuse of taxpayer funds.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:19.8	I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondentrespondent at The Federalist and your experience,
0:24.4	Sherpa, on today's quest for knowledge.
0:27.3	As always, you can email the show at radio at thefederalist.com.
0:32.0	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:34.9	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and of course to the premium version
0:39.8	of our website as well. Our guest today is Sean Davis, the Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder
0:46.7	of the Federalist on the making of the doge. There are some things you may not know about
0:53.3	Sean Davis. First, he rocks, literally. First-rate
0:57.5	guitarist, Sean is the American Jeff Beck of the American conservative movement. And I mean
1:04.3	that sincerely. He also, many years ago, wrote the law that you could say created the first Department of Government
1:13.4	efficiency, or at least it provided the Doge, the tools, and the tools that the taxpayers
1:20.7	were able to use for many years now to audit their own government.
1:26.3	Sean, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.
1:30.1	Well, that was a very generous introduction. Thank you.
1:33.2	I don't know if Jeff Beck is going to appreciate it, but I certainly did.
1:37.1	Well, what's he going to say about it now, huh?
1:40.3	I think.
1:41.6	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:42.9	We'd have to have a seance to get his opinion on this,
1:45.3	on that front. But to the point of generosity, the American taxpayer, we find out in recent weeks,
1:54.2	thanks to the Doge, has been extremely generous with all kinds of insane programs and initiatives paid out to all kinds of countries.
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