Schweizer: DoGE, "Big Balls," and the End of the World (As We Know It)

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

“Big Balls,” Chris Coons and a “constitutional crisis.” For out-of-power Democrats and many in the press, the pace of Donald Trump’s new administration has them shouting, “It’s the end of the world as we know it!” Drill Down host Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers feel fine, but as Elon Musk’s small posse of DoGE analysts, including a 19-year-old hacker who goes by the name of “Big Balls” online, continues to find large examples of fraud and wasteful spending in federal agency budgets, Eggers suggests another song by the band R.E.M. for angry Democrats: “Everybody Hurts.”

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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. 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.
0:22.8	Be very prescient, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	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,
0:32.2	and we're going to try to go further.
0:34.5	Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it.
0:37.6	Thank God.
0:38.6	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,
0:43.4	The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.7	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:50.0	Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer.
0:51.6	Welcome to the Drill Down.
0:53.1	Well, the Department of Government
0:54.8	Efficiency Doge has put the pedal to the floorboards. They are firing people. They are canceling
1:01.6	contracts and they are shutting down government agencies. And if you hear the word from
1:06.1	official Washington, it is the end of the world as we know it. Well, I say it's the end of the world as we know it. And to quote REM, I feel fine. We're going to talk about Doge. We're going to talk about the chaos in D.C. And of course, we're going to do that with a co-host of this program, Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I know you're a huge REM fan, so tell me, when was the last time you heard an REM song?
1:30.9	I hear RAM songs semi regularly, but I would say, I'm glad you feel fine.
1:35.3	But I think for everybody else in Washington, D.C., they're listening to a different
1:38.8	R&M song.
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