Sunday Special with Mike Benz, Rep. Andy Harris, Rep. Tim Burchett and Michael Knowles
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What is the USAID scandal about?
He's probably forgotten more about it than most people know, but it's definitely worth your time. We have him on the show as often as we can. He's got a high demand schedule these days. You can follow him on X. He's at Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z, cyber. And I encourage you to do so. Mike, welcome back to the show. Good to have you.
Dan, great to talk as always.
Mike, there's no one out there who's done more to uncover the deep state money flows in you. I mean, you can be humble about it all you want, but I think everybody's starting to recognize now that's true. It's why you're in such high demand for these shows. But this USAID scandal, I've been making the case, and I'll let you take it from here, that I think the biggest thing if we had to triage our concerns about it is that taxpayer money, very simply, was confiscated from citizens at the end of a barrel of a gun, which is what the IRS does, you pay it or else, or you're going to jail, and was then used to fund a lot of things, ideology, overseas LGBTQIA stuff. However, it was undoubtedly used to fund censorship and regime change, both abroad and here at home against populist movements.
I see those as the top two most critical things the Democrats are freaking out about. What are your thoughts on it?
How is taxpayer money being used for political influence?
Oh, absolutely. I think what you're getting at is that there is a kind of difficult tango dance about the role of the money that the government takes from U.S. taxpayers to spend on influencing the course of events in foreign countries in order to make pro-U.S. interests promulgate there. And there's different schools of thought in terms of the morality or the efficacy of those efforts. But The absolute drop dead, burn it down and salt the earth around it, you cannot do activity is when that goes back and directly affects U.S. domestic citizens. So the government is basically stealing their money in order to crush them with it. And this is what you saw in every single aspect of what USAID did.
USAID funded media institutions and then had those media institutions write hit pieces on U.S. citizens. USAID funded social media terms of service pressure groups in order to pressure the tech companies or pressure governments to pass laws on the US tech companies in order to censor the people who paid USAID to do that. USAID funds the unions and those unions turn around and do protest movements
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the USAID scandal about?
1:49–3:01
2
How is taxpayer money being used for political influence?
3:01–8:12
3
What is the role of USAID in foreign and domestic policy?
8:12–20:19
4
How does the Freedom Caucus view current spending bills?
20:19–25:45
5
What are the challenges in cutting government spending?
25:45–36:53
6
How can tax cuts impact government revenue?
36:53–1:03:31