Luke Thomas

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1,281 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 18 Jun

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Digital Social Hour · Luke Thomas Breaks Silence on Charlie Kirk’s Death | DSH #1572 · 16 Oct 2025 podcast

They hadn't gone into effect yet.

But now they were like, well...

We don't want to cut this stuff at all.

And so the Trump administration rolled it all back and said, no, no, no, we're going to keep these capabilities in place.

I'm just pointing out that was not a mission for waste, fraud, and abuse.

That was a mission for data theft.

Yeah, of course.

I mean, I think, listen, it's a reasonable, rational concern.

Hey, man, my tax dollars are going to this.

Are they going to a project that deserves to be funded?

Are they going to a project that works?

Much less like, oh, it's a good cause, but does it even work?

These are totally reasonable, rational questions.

But the people who should be undertaking those efforts are people who understand how the government works.

The people who can spotlight and say, this project is not working.

This one is overfunded.

This one we don't even use anymore, or whatever the case may be.

That's who should have done that.

And that's what was done under the Clinton administration, where they had a huge list of recommendations that Congress ultimately voted on rather than just we're just going to tear apart USAID and then just dare the courts to stop us.

A totally different process.

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