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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

In the DOGE era, the Pentagon holds all the (credit) cards

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

“Tooth and tail.” That’s the phrase new defense secretary Pete Hegseth uses to describe how money is spent (and wasted) by the Pentagon. It captures the difference between spending money to support warfighters and spending it on the mushrooming support operations that are supposed to keep the troops ready.

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.0

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.

0:12.0

Investigations that matter.

0:14.0

If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?

0:19.0

I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't fighting. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a Medal of Freedom in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the

0:40.3

drill down. Well, it's big, fat, and out of control. And I'm not talking about your typical

0:46.0

congressman and I'm not talking about your typical career bureaucrat. I'm talking about the

0:50.6

Pentagon and they are going to be in the crosshairs of Doge, and we're going

0:54.3

to dissect it for you today and wait until you hear what they've been putting on their credit

1:00.7

cards.

1:01.9

The co-host of this program, of course, is Eric Eggers.

1:04.3

Eric, how are you?

1:05.5

By the way, do you have a company credit card?

1:08.1

How come at the beginning of each podcast you increasingly sound like you work for the IRS.

1:12.7

Like last week, you asked me if I was familiar with money laundering.

1:15.7

Now you're asking about company credit cards.

1:17.3

I have my suspicions.

1:18.6

This is after you've needlessly body shamed bureaucrats and members of Congress.

1:23.6

Peter Schweitzer woke up today and chose violence, America.

1:27.7

So, no, it is really interesting, and we will talk about, you know, I think military spending and waste.

1:33.3

And by the way, just the fact that we have had this acknowledgement that military spending is actually going to be examined, I think, in a very real way, has given me hope for a

1:46.7

different problem based in America. But it does speak to how effective the Trump administration

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