Legislative Priorities on Capitol Hill Post-Major Bill Passage With Congressman Wesley Hunt
The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer
Government Accountability Institute
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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. |
| 0:10.0 | Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years. |
| 0:15.0 | In fact, probably done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, |
| 0:18.0 | 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. |
| 0:37.7 | Thank God. |
| 0:38.7 | Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer. |
| 0:45.8 | This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. |
| 0:50.1 | Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the Drill Down. |
| 0:52.6 | Well, they got the big, beautiful bill across the finish line. What's next on Capitol Hill? We're going to talk to one of the most insightful and important voices on Capitol Hill today. The host of this podcast, of course, is Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I want to be very clear to the audience. I'm not one of the more important, insightful voices on Capitol Hill. That voice belongs to our guest today. He is a rising star, not just, I would say, within the Republican Party, but within Congress and the United States political scene in general, Congressman Wesley Hunt from Texas, very excited to be talking to him. I met him at a party in Washington, D.C. Uh-oh. No, it was good. We had a lot of Dave Chappelle references. I don't think we're going to get there today because it's, you know, for a lot of reasons, not as relevant, but this guy has a lot to say and he's very informed. So it'll be a good, good topic. Well, we're going to now talk to Congressman Wesley Hunt. He sits on a couple of very important committees, natural resources, judiciary. His name also has been floated several times, potentially to join a Trump administration. We may ask him about that later on. But Congressman, thanks so much for joining us and tell us, where is Washington going next, particularly Capitol Hill, |
| 2:01.1 | now that the big beautiful bills cross the finish line, what are you expecting to see |
| 2:05.1 | legislatively from Congress in the next 90 days or so? Well, for starters, thank you all for |
| 2:10.7 | having me. I really appreciate it. And you ask where Congress is going, well, I'm going on |
| 2:14.3 | vacation. We can tell, actually. |
| 2:18.0 | We see that. |
| 2:19.0 | We have August recess. |
| 2:21.1 | It has been a blistering first half of the year for President Trump and for this administration for us in Congress. |
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