Open The Books. Just DOGE it.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Monitoring government spending should be a given. It should be transparent and easy to access. Why would anyone fight against that notion… unless they don’t want you to know how your money is being spent? John Hart is CEO of OpenThBooks.com, an amazing resource for tracking government spending. Hart joins Michele to talk DOGE, the scalpel versus the chainsaw, and why bloated government leads to shrinking liberties.
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Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl.
She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | Every dollar saved in Washington is a dream realized somewhere in America. |
| 0:05.4 | And that politicians are all, they're focused on how do we grow a federal agency? |
| 0:09.9 | But real leaders are focused on how do I grow your agency? |
| 0:13.6 | How do I help you pursue happiness on your terms so you can invest in the things you care about? |
| 0:19.3 | The charities you care about, the local groups, your family, your business. |
| 0:23.5 | And real leaders find incredible satisfaction and knowing that they're giving you an opportunity to pursue happiness on your terms. |
| 0:42.6 | John Hart is the CEO of OpenTheBooks.com. |
| 0:45.5 | We're going to get into all of this dogey stuff. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tafoy podcast. |
| 0:50.5 | Before you forget, just hit that subscribe button. |
| 0:53.9 | Wherever you're listening, wherever you're watching, just click on subscribe. It's totally |
| 0:54.5 | free for you and you'll make sure it's in your inbox every single time we drop an episode. |
| 0:59.5 | We'd love to have you on board. Openthebooks.com is sort of a precursor to Doge. It is a way to look |
| 1:07.0 | at your state, your federal government agencies and figure out just how much they're |
| 1:11.5 | spending and on what? It's an amazing website. There's a lot of news. There's a lot of video to take in. |
| 1:18.0 | There are charts and categories and maps and it's super user friendly. I recommend you give it a shot. |
| 1:24.4 | We're going to talk to John Hart about what the mission of this is, how it reflects |
| 1:29.2 | in what Doge is doing, and a lot more that's coming right up. |
| 1:36.6 | John Hart, thank you so much for joining us. You couldn't be a more timely guest. We've got this |
| 1:41.9 | thing called Doge that is driving a lot of people up the walls, |
| 1:45.7 | and many people are applauding it. We're trying to debate between a chainsaw and a scalpel. |
| 1:50.9 | You are the CEO of OpenThebooks.com, which I honestly, I don't think I was aware of before I saw |
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