2025 Highlights | The Drill Down | Ep. 250

Peter Schweizer & Eric Eggers review the most consequential investigations, interviews, and themes covered on The Drill Down in 2025. The end-of-year episode highlights how entrenched corruption, regulatory capture, and lack of enforcement continue to define federal governance. They revisit episodes that exposed fraud in welfare and SNAP programs, Pentagon spending abuses, insider trading by members of Congress, and the influence of powerful industries over food and health regulations. Guests including Vani Hari, Andrew McClanahan, Harmeet Dhillon, Mark Levin, and Bill O’Reilly detailed how political incentives protect waste, fraud, and abuse across agencies. The episode also examines rising housing costs driven by zoning and environmental regulations, which limit homeownership and increase public dependence. The year closes with forward-looking predictions for 2026, including economic growth, political realignment, and new battles to realize effective government oversight and accountability.

Chapters
00:00 A Christmas Retrospective on 2025
01:16 Challenging the Status Quo in Washington
02:13 RFK Jr and the Fight Against Regulatory Capture
03:24 How Big Food and Big Pharma Control Policy
06:55 Fraud as the Central Story of the Year
08:21 Welfare and SNAP Fraud Exposed
12:30 DOJ Pushback on Race-Based Justice Policies
15:15 Pentagon Waste and Credit Card Abuse
21:11 Why Oversight Keeps Failing
22:33 Insider Trading in Congress
25:46 Pelosi and the Insider Trading Problem
27:05 Power, Marxism, and Islamism
33:41 Drug Cartels, China, and Fentanyl
37:22 Why America Became a Nation of Renters
41:31 How Regulation Drives Housing Costs
42:12 Bold Predictions for 2026
46:15 Final Thanks and Year-End Message

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Peter Schweizer
𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚: 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒂 𝑩𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒚𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒔 (2024)
https://a.co/d/1vVPWiW?tag=governmacco01-20

Eric Eggers
𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒖𝒅: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 (2018)
https://a.co/d/cQZzBlT?tag=governmacco01-20

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