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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Pork Has Returned to Washington in Full force in this Omnibus Bill

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Peter and Eric shake off some holiday crud and plunge back into Washington crud. They start by breathing in the sooty exhaust of the Omnibus.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.7

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Biden's.

0:12.4

Investigations that matter.

0:14.4

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 fired me. 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

0:41.6

Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism and corruption and the abuse of power in

0:46.9

Washington, D.C. seated next to me is Eric Eggers, the co-host of this program. It's nice to be

0:52.7

back in the office for the new year, Eric. Happy New Year to you.

0:56.2

And, of course, the lights are still on, which is always a good sign. Yeah, like, you got a deeper voice for the podcast for 2023, apparently. But the good news is nothing else seems to have changed. Everything here at GAI is working effectively. the things are still running.

1:09.7

We must be still paying the bill somehow, some way.

1:12.3

Yeah, we are.

1:12.9

We are, but don't hold your breath.

1:14.1

It is only. working effectively. The things are still running. We must be still paying the bill somehow,

1:11.5

some way. Yeah, we are. We are, but don't hold your breath. It is only the first few days of

1:16.6

January. But welcome, everybody. We hope you had a wonderful holiday. We certainly did. We are

1:21.8

both getting over various ailments from the holidays. But we are great to be here. And we had a great time guest hosting

1:29.4

the Sean Hannity radio show last week. And there was something really big that happened.

1:35.7

I'm not going to say it was connected to us guest hosting, but it happened while we were guest

1:40.4

hosting. And some would say it was a necessary thing. Some would say it was a disastrous

1:46.2

thing. Well, you know, we're funding the federal government, Peter. We're keeping people employed.

1:50.4

We're making sure that the vital function of United States democracy continues to thrive.

1:56.2

But we did so with a $1.7 trillion spending bill that does prevent a government shutdown and it funds the country for the next nine months, but it also has lots and lots of things in it that some people would find highly questionable.

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