This Is How $892 Billion of Taxpayer Money Is Wasted Every Year | Kat Cammack
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Rep. Kat Cammack about how billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars are wasted on programs and agencies that are never officially greenlit by congress; how few GOP bills and executive orders have been codified despite unified control; why lawmakers avoid hard votes; how social media influencer culture is ruining politicians who are just seeking clicks; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | At some point, you just have to put your cards on the table and say, we're going to do this. |
| 0:04.4 | And if the Senate doesn't want to pick it up, that's on the Senate. |
| 0:07.4 | But that is no excuse as to why we in the House aren't moving things that we know should be going along. |
| 0:12.9 | Like the USA Act, right? |
| 0:15.3 | I got an email today from a colleague who said, I can't sign on to this bill because I'm an appropriator |
| 0:22.0 | and most of what we appropriate funds to is not authorized. It would make my entire job |
| 0:28.8 | really difficult. That as an American makes my blood boil. Like, Congress should be going through and auditing programs and agencies. |
| 0:40.8 | Half of what we authorize or half of what we appropriate is not authorized. |
| 0:46.3 | $892 billion. |
| 0:48.1 | Every single year, we are spending in programs and agencies that Congress never greenlit. |
| 0:55.0 | Kind of crazy. |
| 1:02.8 | All right, Congresswoman Kat Kamik, it's good to see you. |
| 1:05.4 | You just mentioned your four-month-old baby is here in D.C. But where now? |
| 1:11.2 | I know. |
| 1:12.1 | I know. |
| 1:12.4 | Do you know where the child is? |
| 1:13.5 | The child is with dad and is supervised. |
| 1:17.4 | But she is manning the office right now back on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:20.8 | So all things good. |
| 1:21.6 | And she's going to the voting floor with you. |
| 1:23.6 | Yes. |
| 1:24.1 | Yes. |
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