Episodios

  • SNAP Judgments

    SNAP Judgments
    Nov 5 2025
    During the government shutdown, Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins has been reviewing data from 29 states administering the food stamp program. Rollins’s review has found EBT cards that have been carrying balances of more than $10,000. It found cards that haven’t been used in years. It found cards issued to people who never existed. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as food stamps are formally known, has been around since the 1930s but ballooned during the Biden administration years and now serves 42 million people in the US, one-eighth of the population. What’s happening? Is the program running efficiently and properly? Will the shutdown really “starve children” as the Trump administration’s critics are charging?Joining host Eric Eggers on The Drill Down podcast is returning guest Andrew McClenahan from the United Council on Welfare Fraud. McClenahan’s organization represents state-level investigators of welfare fraud. And it turns out there is a lot of it to investigate.
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    33 m
  • Schweizer: Litter Boxes in the Classroom for “Furries?” Blame our Schooling

    Schweizer: Litter Boxes in the Classroom for “Furries?” Blame our Schooling
    Oct 29 2025
    The assassination of Charlie Kirk and other killings by young and seemingly well-educated but radicalized young people has led many to ask: Why does this keep happening? The problems begin not in college, but in the K-12 schooling that is infested with a mind-altering system of control. It is called “social emotional learning” (SEL), and a new book by Priscilla West warns that it will take decades to undo the damage it has done to childhood education.
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    21 m
  • Schweizer: Rigging Elections Before the First Vote is Cast?

    Schweizer: Rigging Elections Before the First Vote is Cast?
    Oct 22 2025
    Voting security is always a hot topic around election time, but manipulation of our electoral system is a bigger problem that we have to worry about all the time. On the most recent episode of The Drill Down podcast, we are not talking about stolen ballots, “ballot harvesting,” or other shenanigans that can happen during an election, but about how congressional districts are both drawn and apportioned. Two things recently in the news raise questions about how we do those things, and whether it’s still the best way.
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    24 m
  • Riot Inc - The Hidden Networks Fueling Unrest

    Riot Inc - The Hidden Networks Fueling Unrest
    Oct 15 2025
    Riot Inc - The Hidden Networks Fueling Unrest
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    27 m
  • Schweizer: Yes, Immigrants ARE Getting Health Care Payment

    Schweizer: Yes, Immigrants ARE Getting Health Care Payment
    Oct 8 2025
    The federal government remains in a shutdown and, depending on whom you believe, it is either because Democrats want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants, or Republicans want to jack up costs on ordinary Americans. What’s going on, and who’s right?
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    28 m
  • Bannon to Schweizer: Charges Against Comey “Are Just the Appetizers.”

    Bannon to Schweizer: Charges Against Comey “Are Just the Appetizers.”
    Oct 2 2025
    The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey has raised cries of “lawfare” from Democrats declaring that President Donald Trump’s administration is going after his political opponents.It’s a rich charge to make, given the number of prosecutions against both Trump and those in his orbit during and following his first term. One of those targeted during the first Trump terms, Steve Bannon, joins The Drill Down podcast on the most recent episode.
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    33 m
  • The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making

    The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making
    Sep 24 2025
    The TikTok Dilemma - A Deal in the Making
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    27 m
  • Bill O’Reilly on Confronting Evil

    Bill O’Reilly on Confronting Evil
    Sep 16 2025
    “Evil is on the rise in America, and overseas,” says author and talk show host Bill O’Reilly. “Evil is very simple: It's when one human being hurts another human being on purpose with no remorse.” Like Charlie Kirk’s killer. Like Vladimir Putin. And about 15 percent of the world’s population, O’Reilly thinks.
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    34 m