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 Drilled

Down with Peter Schweitzer. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.

Hi, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down. Well, they really are coming from you.

And we've got big spending in Washington, D.C. We've got hidden campaign donations. We're going to cover all of that with the King of Oversight, who is our special guest today. The co-host of this program, of course, is Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I'm excellent, but I'm excited to learn from our very special guest, somebody that we've worked with for some time, former representative Jason Chafetz, about who's coming for whom and how scared should we be. The cover of his book, which is excellent, by the way, is frightening. Yeah, it is frightening. And Jason has a new book out. He was also, while he was in Congress, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, he's the head of the Oversight Project, which has been affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, and he is a distinguished fellow at GAI. We want to talk about this new book, Jason. We want to talk about what's going on in Washington. So here's the question. You've written a great book. It's got a lot of detailed information.

And a lot of people are going to be thinking, well, Trump's

taking care of this, right?

We've got Doge.

We've got all these sorts of people in Washington that are taking care of these issues.

You actually raise a bunch of questions that have yet to be addressed in Washington, D.C.,

specifically about how

they're coming for your information and your privacy. Explain that and why people should actually

care about their privacy. Well, listen, thanks for having me on. Look, key is to first

stop feeding the beast, and Doge did that. They started to highlight and cut the spending

that was going out to so many of these nefarious organizations. But for far too long, unfortunately,

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