Luke Rosiak
Appearances
Morning Wire
Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
Hey, John. So the first thing to understand is that these are all, quote, independent agencies, which just means that their top person nominally reports directly to the president. But you got to keep in mind, they're so tiny that nobody, including the president, ever looks at them. I don't know that I've ever seen a more wild example of out of control on accountability than FMCS. Hmm.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
This is an agency that, prior to the pandemic, had a nine-story office tower in K Street for only 60 employees. Its hallways were lined with oil paintings of those employees and other artwork purchased from the boss's wife with government funds.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
Good times, I guess. They built an in-house gym. They had a smoking lounge, showers in their office. This was an agency that was created to offer voluntary mediation services between businesses and unions. But plenty of private arbitrators already do that. So the main purpose of FMCS kind of became, as far as I could tell, just a slush fund for its employees. They had an office in Honolulu.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
And basically, they would just commit what seemed like fraud in a way that was shocking. I mean, they listed the boss, Scott Beckenbaugh, as being on a six-year-long business trip to D.C. so that his rent and all of his meals would be paid for by the government just for showing up for work every day. He wouldn't have to dip into his $174,000 salary. They put relatives on the payroll.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
Yes, and any time a whistleblower or auditor, one of which actually I think wanted to make an FBI referral, raised issues, they would fire that person. One time they escorted a lady out of the building with armed guards for calling attention to the way they were using these purchase cards.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
One accountant wrote an email to the General Services Administration warning about how they were abusing those cards, and then Director George Cohen forced her to write an email rescinding it. Now, FMCS employees actually did something called unblocking their government purchase cards, which removed restrictions against abuse, and then used them to buy whatever they wanted.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
One leased a BMW, another paid for his wife's cell phone and cable TV at his vacation home, including an extra package for the golf channel. They had a recreation fund, they called it, that they used to buy champagne and $200 coasters for that champagne.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
Yeah, and listeners might be wondering, how did you spend a year investigating this agency? It was just abolished. Well, I made these findings a decade ago, and nothing was done. This is stuff that's kind of been out there, and what's thrilling to me is that... Finally, people care. Things that kind of have been an open secret in Washington for a long time.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
Now that Doge is in town, it looks like some of those things are finally changing. And the documented behavior of this agency makes it a lot harder to argue with Doge when it says that this kind of thing does occur in government.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
I don't know if people are really going to want to know that answer. Probably true.
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Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
Thank you, John.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Hi, John. So contrary to what people initially expected, Doge is more than just an advisory commission. It's now based in the executive office of the president, repurposing an existing group called the U.S. Digital Service. That means it can have paid government employees.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Already, Doge has been mining through spending records and flagging grants it views as wasteful, and then working with the Office of Management and Budget or agencies to stop them. It said it's canceled a billion dollars in DEI contracts so far. It's also focusing on using technology to save money.
Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Then there are grants, especially through USAID, that Musk said are basically slush funds funding international liberal activism.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Oh, absolutely. Employees from Musk's businesses have taken roles at agencies that serve as the nerve centers of the federal government, specifically the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, and the General Services Administration, the GSA. Now, OPM was behind the buyout offer that will pay employees until September if they quit.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
It's also key to dealing with unions, which are going to be a big impediment to personnel reform. The Biden administration signed a contract with one union literally three days before Trump took office, and Congress's DOGE subcommittee is investigating that. Now, GSA manages real estate procurement and technology for other agencies.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Doge said it's already terminated the leases of some government buildings. And Musk knows that government employees have a vested interest in keeping the spigots of cash flowing. He said his plan is to outmaneuver them by working harder than they're willing to. Musk aides have literally been living in OPM headquarters.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Sure. So a GSA unit that develops websites for agencies across the government called the Technology Transformation Service had a former Tesla engineer installed at the top. Now, TTS and its major component called AT&F is a perfect example of the really hard-to-eradicate bias that's present in the government. Its X logo was a transgender flag.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
It spent time programming an inclusion bot that would monitor what staff typed and lecture them if they used phrases like nuts, which it said was derogatory. So a bot made to language police. Yeah. And this part of this happened, you know, including during the first Trump term. And it gets crazier at TTS.
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Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Its employee handbook said, before speaking at a meeting, employees should describe what they look like so any blind people would know if there was sufficient racial diversity. Now, OPM has ordered employees back to the office, which will have a side effect of encouraging more to accept the buyout. They expect 10% of employees to take it, which would save $100 billion.
Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
Now, you can see the changes this group makes through tools that track code, and they've been deleting the inclusion bot, sections of the handbook. a surprising portion of their work product that had more to do with employee comfort and left-wing virtue signaling than the mission. Sounds like it.
Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
He's made incredible progress. For some employees and woke policies, it appears it is over. But to some extent, DEI is the low-hanging fruit, and some things are harder to change. We'll see if the return to work orders and the buyout offers are a filtering mechanism that will result in a workforce that can be trusted to implement rather than subvert their chief executive's directive.
Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25
I think that's right. Luke, thanks so much for reporting. Anytime.
Morning Wire
Trump to Void Biden Pardons & VA Trans Service Scrutiny | Afternoon Update | 3.17.25
Internal documents from the Biden era showed the VA offering essentially everything other than surgery, including prosthetic male appendages and breasts. The documents show the VA also offered hormone therapy and voice training and used the fill-in-the-blanks form letter to convince outside surgeons to do sex changes.
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Trump to Void Biden Pardons & VA Trans Service Scrutiny | Afternoon Update | 3.17.25
It trained staff how to use a vague, unlisted procedure code to bill body hair removal to taxpayers. The Trump administration today said it's put a stop to these procedures, except for veterans already undergoing them. VA Secretary Doug Collins said the money saved would be redirected to support severely injured vets.
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Hey, John. So in the 1970s, a group of minorities objected to the federal government's use of a test called the Professional Administrative Career Examination. Now, that test accurately predicted who would go on to be an excellent employee, but a lawsuit said it was racist because blacks and Hispanics didn't score as highly as whites on average.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Now, Jimmy Carter, who was president, said the test was fair, rigorously constructed, and useful. But after he lost election, he settled with the plaintiffs and entered into something called the Luévano Consent Decree, which ended the hiring exam and gave the plaintiffs veto power over its replacement. That was only supposed to last for five years.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
But the Office of Personnel Management ran into a problem. It tried six times, but no test that accurately identified competent employees also led to what was required by the decree, which is zero statistically significant differences in hire rates by race.
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
The result is that more than 40 years later, federal agencies tasked with hiring millions of people are forbidden from using objective skills tests. to find the most skilled applicants.
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Exactly. OPM finally came up with one test that would result in a high proportion of minorities. And it's basically just a self-assessment. The government now largely relies on a 136 question quiz where applicants rate themselves on how qualified they think they are.
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Right. And so now the Trump administration is set to ask the D.C. court to end the consent decree on quite a few grounds, including that it's illegal under the Supreme Court's precedent, especially the 2023 Harvard ruling that ended affirmative action at colleges.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
The Trump administration will argue that it, quote, blatantly conflicts with current law and requires the federal government to make hiring decisions using explicit racial classifications.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
It says it amounts to one court using a nearly half-century-old agreement to block the president from using measures that any large-scale employer would use to shape his workforce, and that the OPM must be relieved of the Luivano consent decree to return common sense to federal hiring. This is a big deal because Trump could basically turn federal employees into an elite group.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
An exam could turn up the best and brightest who were evaluated objectively and hired based on merit.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Yeah, this is one of these things that could be a legacy for Trump. In many ways, it's a big surprise that this decree is still standing so many years later, especially because blacks aren't actually underrepresented in the federal government. They're actually overrepresented by 50%. Even if we weren't in a post-DEI, post-affirmative action world, this consent decree was legally hard to justify.
Morning Wire
Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
Hey, John. So the first lawsuits against Doge by government employee unions were filed literally the day of Trump's inauguration, saying an outside advisory panel would be illegal. That's when they got their first big surprise. Doge wasn't an outside panel. It was repurposing an existing White House office set up by Barack Obama.
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Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
Well, in 2014, after Obama's healthcare.gov failed, he created this technology SWAT team based within the White House. It was exempted from ordinary government hiring rules in order to attract Silicon Valley types or short stints aimed at fixing government. It was run by a political appointee, and it hired a lot of Democrat activist types. Hmm.
Morning Wire
Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
After Trump won in 2016, USDS convinced him that it should be a nonpartisan office, and Trump agreed to basically treat them like civil servants, even though they were literally within his executive office of the president. He basically left them alone to do their jobs. But the staff exploited that kindness and turned it into a weakness.
Morning Wire
Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
A pronoun-using DNC donor was put in charge, and USDS became a hotbed of radical far-left activism operating from within Trump's White House. They hired multiple people who were actually from the pornography industry. They had an entire panel of queer employees speak at a DEI conference.
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Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
Yeah. The whole thing was basically an open rebellion and staff would slow walk or undermine any projects they didn't like. And then Biden takes over. And does Trump get any credit for exercising restraint? No. Biden immediately turned it back into an office that was overtly run by a political appointee. So Obama basically built this machine with exactly the power Doge needed.
Morning Wire
Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
And then during the Trump administration, there was this over-the-top betrayal that ensured that in a second term, Trump wasn't going to be so deferential to this idea of a supposedly nonpartisan civil service. So when Biden increased political control over the office, it was basically loading the weapon and giving it to Elon Musk.
Morning Wire
Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
Yeah. Here's the crazy thing. Elon's hires are a small staff working out of a separate building right now. But the 200-odd staff inherited from the Biden administration is actually still there at USGS. On Friday, I was at the White House. And as I was leaving, I saw this poster in the window of a White House annex building that said, hate has no home here.
Morning Wire
Trump Super Bowl Buzz & New Media Rises | 2.10.25
And so I did this double take standing in the middle of the road because this was clearly a left-wing poster taunting Trump displayed in a government building within the White House's Secret Service perimeter. I looked at the address, and wouldn't you know it, this was USDS's headquarters. So that kind of removed any doubt that this was never some sort of neutral civil service group.
Morning Wire
FEMA Fires Partisans & February Jobs Growth | Afternoon Update | 3.7.25
investigation is likely to explore whether high-level officials, potentially including Harris herself, as well as Lena Kahn, Joe Biden's chair of the Federal Trade Commission, conspired to embed the vice president's deputy domestic policy advisor, Nathaniel Siegel, into a civil service job just before Trump's inauguration.
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FEMA Fires Partisans & February Jobs Growth | Afternoon Update | 3.7.25
He was placed on the payroll on direct orders of Kahn, despite the fact that he was missing essential paperwork, three Trump administration officials told the Daily Wire. In mid-February, Siegel doctored a document to try to secure the deferred resignation program buyout, despite not being eligible and its deadline having passed, the official said.
Morning Wire
FEMA Fires Partisans & February Jobs Growth | Afternoon Update | 3.7.25
The buyout program gives eligible career employees benefits worth as much as $200,000 in exchange for leaving the government.
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Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Change to turf, runway 33, runway 33, clear to land. Oh, did you see that? American 3130, go around, turn left, and 250, climb Anthony 3000.
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Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Hey, John. So the Century Foundation, which is an influential progressive group helmed by a member of Barack Obama's Domestic Policy Council, said school districts should resist deportation efforts because illegal immigrants bring in money for their budget. In other words, they're kind of saying the quiet part out loud.
Morning Wire
Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
More than a million Americans withdrew their children from public schools in the last couple of years, feeling let down because of COVID, critical race theory, and other issues. That would have meant layoffs for teachers and administrators, except that illegal immigrants have largely replaced them.
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Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Century said it makes financial logic for school districts to stand in ICE's way, saying the task is simple. Keep students in school, maintain enrollment and funding. Let me read verbatim from this education policy group. Immigrant students have helped keep the public school district budgets from shrinking due to declining enrollment.
Morning Wire
Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Public schools in the United States lost more than 1 million students between 2019 and 2022. These enrollment losses can lead to significant layoffs. However, English learner enrollment has grown significantly, making up for some losses and bringing enrollment-dependent funds back to public schools.
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Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Exactly. We spend a lot more educating a child that doesn't speak English than we do for Americans. In Fairfax County, Virginia, the cost is $20,000 per American, but $25,000 a year for school for English learners because the extra teacher's required. So what makes financial logic for teachers actually means ruin for taxpayers? That's caused huge problems throughout the country.
Morning Wire
Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Fairfax went from a budget surplus to a $300 million budget deficit, which is now threatening cuts to the fire department. leaders never point out in these pain discussions about the deficit is that the county school spent $158 million teaching English to migrant children last year, more than half the deficit. That's an unexpected cost, rising $70 million in just the last few years.
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Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Yeah, I mean, you look at an enrollment chart for, say, Denver, which came out swinging against this new Trump policy, and it's remarkable. The schools had been hemorrhaging students for years, but then they get that godsend. A lot of new students who require a lot of very labor-intensive services, even though their parents pay very little in taxes.
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Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
Yeah, and they don't need to bother with upping the quality of schools to lure back Americans. There are also questions about whether schools are essentially defrauding taxpayers. In Fairfax, they say that more than one in five students needs these English learner services. So they're either
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Plane Crash Recovery & Cabinet Hearings Clashes | 1.31.25
totally failing to actually teach them English for years, or they're falsely claiming they still don't speak it to keep getting that extra cash.
Morning Wire
Trump’s First Month & Social Security Whistleblower | 2.21.25
Hey, John. So for years, Dudek had been a mid-level manager at Social Security running its anti-fraud efforts. Now at 4.30 p.m. one day this week, he was called into his manager's office and placed on leave. He wrote in a now-deleted LinkedIn post, They want to fire me for cooperating with Doge. I confess, I helped Doge understand SSA.
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Trump’s First Month & Social Security Whistleblower | 2.21.25
I've mailed myself publicly accessible documents and explained them to Doge. I confess, I moved contractor money around to add data science resources to my anti-fraud team. But within hours, it wasn't Dudek who was fired. Instead, the head of the entire agency, Michelle King, was out. And Dudek got a big promotion to her job. Quite a reversal there.
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Trump’s First Month & Social Security Whistleblower | 2.21.25
What's your response to that? I think that's a really important point. Doge is going to need some of these career employees if they're going to be successful. They are out there, people who want to do the right thing and work for the federal government, and they're actually the ones who know where the bodies are buried. Right.
Morning Wire
Trump’s First Month & Social Security Whistleblower | 2.21.25
Well, traditionally, the Social Security Commissioner was appointed to a six-year term and retained by the next president. But Joe Biden shattered that precedent when he fired Trump's first-term pick. Biden replaced him with Martin O'Malley, who quit late last year to run for chair of the Democratic National Committee. That left King a career employee as acting commissioner.
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Trump’s First Month & Social Security Whistleblower | 2.21.25
Now, King reportedly tried to block Doge from accessing the agency's data. Now Dudek will leap up the ranks to be acting commissioner until the Senate confirms Trump's nominee.
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Trump’s First Month & Social Security Whistleblower | 2.21.25
Well, Musk said this week that there are millions of people in Social Security's system that are well over 100 years old, but aren't marked as dead. Now, a lot of people on the left attacked him for that. Some claimed that Musk just didn't understand the way that dates are stored in the COBOL programming language.
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Trump’s First Month & Social Security Whistleblower | 2.21.25
Now, not only was that theory wrong, but it highlighted that some of the most important financial systems in the U.S. government are running on a 1960s programming language, despite the agency giving out a billion-dollar tech contract. Hmm. Then they said it was no big deal because those were just social security numbers being used by illegal immigrants.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
Hey, John. So 1,200 of these administrative law judges are paid more than $200,000 each to do nothing but hear appeals from people who want to get disability benefits from Social Security despite having been ruled ineligible. They're represented, believe it or not, by a union for judges, the Association of Administrative Law Judges.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
That group is suing to prevent Doge from accessing information about Social Security staff. The president of that union, a Democrat donor named Sam Ramrup, overturned the rulings of Social Security's experts to approve payments in 94% of the cases she heard last year. Ron Herman, who overhears cases in the Detroit area, approved 95% of the nearly 1,300 cases he heard.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
In another example, Jan Leventer, hearing cases in Queens, approved 94% of 2,200 cases. Some, including actually one of the supervisory judges, approved payments in literally 100% of the cases that they heard last year.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
Yeah, so some of these rates seem basically mathematically impossible. It's evidence that the process is broken. This is important because you'll hear that it's a fool's errand to try to cut the federal deficit because so much of it is so-called non-discretionary items like Medicare and Social Security.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
But this is an example of how the Department of Government Efficiency might find waste in those areas too.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
Yeah, but the problem is these are not real judges. They're not members of the judicial branch. They work for the Social Security Administration. And disability has historically been a pretty fraud-ridden program, with some non-disabled people viewing it as essentially a way to get welfare that isn't subjected to the five-year limit on actual welfare.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
I'm not saying that the judges with those 90% plus approval ratings are all taking bribes, but a few years back, prosecutors found that one such judge was. He single-handedly steered more than half a billion dollars in benefits by ruling favorably in 3,000 cases in exchange for $600,000 in bribes from a lawyer. Wow. So this is real money, billions of dollars we're talking about here.
Morning Wire
Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
Yeah, and the process is very one-sided. People who are rejected from disability can appeal three times. There's nobody in these hearings representing the taxpayer's interests. It's usually just a lawyer arguing that the person is disabled. One of those lawyers told me that the whole thing is basically just a $200 billion crapshoot. He said, "...I don't think there's any real lawyering to it.
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Budget Bill Passes House & Rise of Teen “Sextortion” | 4.11.25
The game is to get as many hearings as I can because 50% are going to get approved no matter what if I just show up." He said the outcome basically came down to the political bent of the judge hearing it. One administrative law judge suggested that some of his colleagues viewed disability as essentially a way to give out reparations to minorities.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
It's a pretty funny story. Democrats basically spent 10 years building the biggest rake you've ever seen and then stomped on it. So it kind of starts in 2014. Obama creates something called the U.S. Digital Service that is designed to hire people from Silicon Valley and exempt them from many of the federal rules.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
And then through the first Trump administration, they convinced Trump that these are civil servants that should be left alone to be independent. And they used that status to basically completely undermine him, doing completely ridiculous things, leftist activism from within the Trump executive office of the president.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
And Biden comes in and he dispenses with the pretense of nonpartisanship and he just blatantly makes it subject to the power of a political appointee. So he basically loads a gun and then they hand it to Elon Musk. So this is definitely one of the greatest cell phones of all time. And then on top of that, just the things that they were doing inside of the Trump U.S.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
Digital Service, kind of without his knowledge but right underneath his nose, are truly shocking. They were hiring transgender activists. They were hiring multiple people from porn websites, if you can believe it. They had somebody called a kink-aware professional on staff. And this is all happening in Trump's payroll.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
They're going to DEI conferences and sending an entire panel of lesbians who work there. They hired somebody from a gender studies department who then sent an email to staff in the executive office of the president in Trump's presidency lecturing them about white cis privilege and toxic masculinity. So basically, Trump was very kind to these people.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
He wanted to give them space to operate as civil servants, and they kind of took his kindness as weakness.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
So there's a lot of lessons here, but I think the betrayal that USDS kind of committed in Trump's first term is definitely informing the way that he's going to come in and look at how Biden used and Trump and Obama used these agencies in a more partisan way and naturally say it only seems fair to do the same thing. And so he's bringing in people like, you know, it's yeah.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
So I'll leave it there on that part. But there's so many examples I could go on and on about basically how they operated a left wing activism outfit in Trump's White House and basically set up this whole thing. And now what Elon Musk is doing with it is not all that dissimilar from how Barack Obama set it up in 2014.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
Yeah, and I think one of the things that really threatens Elon, really makes Democrats scared of Elon, is that he's an outsider. And I think about even this role where the Daily Wire is now naming me the government efficiency reporter. In some ways, I've been around Washington for a while.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
My original mentor back in the day was Tom Coburn, a senator who was called Dr. No because he basically called out spending and shut down so much wasteful spending. And he actually created the website usaspending.gov for exactly the kind of thing we're now seeing. But nobody really looked at it for about 15 years. It was all out there, but nobody was really using it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
And now what we have is I just feel like a kid waking up on Christmas morning because people are suddenly using this website for exactly what they wanted them to. I almost wish Tom Coburn was still alive to see it. He would be so excited. But some of the things they're finding as outsiders We've kind of known about it on those of us who have followed Washington for years.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
Some of it we knew about, but we just felt like we couldn't change. We didn't like it, but we just were jaded and pessimistic, and we were told that nothing could ever change. And what you have is these outsiders like Elon who are coming in with his merry band of 20-year-olds and kind of waltzing into the parade and pointing at the emperor and saying, hey, why does that dude have no clothes? And...
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
Those of us who have kind of been in the alphabet soup of D.C. jargon for a long time, you're right. It doesn't have to be this way. So it's just incredible to see people using this USA spending, finding all the USA stuff that you're mentioning, and there's so much more.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2134 - Democrats Fear BIG BALLS!
Once in a while, these people who are just random people all over America who are exploring how taxpayers are spending their money, they're finding that bureaucrats spend your money in ways that they would never spend their own money. Thank you.