so the uh at at a high level if you say what is the goal of Doge or or and and I think a significant part of this presidency is to restore uh democracy this may seem seem like well aren't we in a democracy well if you don't have a feedback okay we would have to if you if you sorry tell you gravitas can be difficult sometimes um so uh if if if there's not a feedback loop from the people to to the government and if if you have rule of the the bureaucrat if the bureaucracy
is in charge and then then what meaning does democracy actually have if the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the in the form of the president and and the Senate and the house then we don't live in a democracy we live in a bureaucracy so it's incredibly important that we close that feedback loop we fix that feedback loop and that the public uh the Public's elected representatives the president the house and the Senate decide what happens as opposed to an a large unelected bureaucracy this is not to
say that there aren't some good there are good people who who uh are in the federal bureaucracy but but you can't have an autonomous Federal bureaucracy you have to have one that is responsive to the people that's the whole point of a democracy um and so um and if if you looked at the if you asked looked at the founders today and said what do you think of the way things have turned out well what we have this unelected of fourth unconstitutional branch of of government which is the bureaucracy which has in a lot of
ways currently more power than any elected representative and this is uh this is not something that people want um and it's it's it's not it does not match the will of the people so it's just something we've got to we've got to fix and we've also got to address the the deficit so we've got a $2 trillion deficit and if this if we don't do something about this deficit country is going bankrupt I mean it's it's really astounding that the uh the interest payments alone on the national debt exceed the defense department budget which is
shocking because we've got a lot we spend a lot of money on defense but and and if that just keeps going we're essentially going to bankrupt the country so what what I really want to say is like it's not optional for us to sit to reduce the Federal expenses it's essential it's essential for America to remain solvent as a country and it's essential for America to have the resources necessary to provide things to its citizens and not simply be servicing vast amounts of debt and also could you mention some of the things that your team
has found some of the crazy numbers including the woman that walked away with about 30 million right Etc well we we we are we do find it sort of rather odd that um you know there there are quite a few uh people in in um in the bureaucracy who who have a ostensibly a salary of a few hundred, but somehow managed to acrew tens of millions of dollars in net worth uh while they are in that position which is you know what what happened at usaid we're just curious as to where it came from um
maybe they're very good at investing they which case we should take their investment advice perhaps um but uh just there seems to be mysteriously they they get wealth we're don't why where does it come from um and uh I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at taxpayer expense that's that's the that's the honest truth of it so
