The DOGE Files: Tracking The Insane Things Your Tax Dollars Are Paying For

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to dive into the convoluted world of taxpayer-funded pet projects and analyze the effect President Donald Trump's Department of Goernment Efficiency will have on cutting back spending.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:22.1	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.8	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
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0:37.4	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and of course
0:40.7	to the premium version of our website as well our guest today is parker thayer investigative
0:46.4	researcher at non-profit tracker capital research center let's have a discussion about doge files, donor advised funds, and the unchecked mess
0:58.2	at USAID. It is the Mollstrom. It is all happening right here and right now. And Parker,
1:05.5	thank you so much for joining us for a little bit of perspective and clarity. Oh, it's great to be back.
1:15.1	Yeah, it's good to have you. And it's good to get an expert on these things. You folks at the Capital Research Center have been doing a lot of work on this front and it is hitting all at one time.
1:22.6	If you wouldn't mind, give me a little overview of the work that you're doing, particularly with, as you call it,
1:29.1	the Doge files. Yeah. So the Doge files, it's a really neat project we launched recently.
1:36.8	We have years and years of experience investigating the activities. And a lot of people like to call them
1:44.0	NGOs when they get government funding, but I'll
1:46.5	just call them nonprofits for broad purposes.
1:50.1	Sure.
1:50.7	We do a lot of research on political nonprofits that are trying to, you know, insert themselves
1:56.3	into the public policy space and try and dictate what you can and can't do, what laws say,
2:02.7	what regulations say, and to direct where government money goes.
2:08.5	And over the last four years, particularly we've observed that those nonprofits that we've been
2:14.0	studying for years have gotten more and more government funding with each passing year.
2:19.3	And when the announcement of Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, came out, we realized that we had a lot of really good information ready made to provide to anyone who wanted to clean up federal spending rules and try and kind of cut back
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