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Our guest today is Scott Walter, President of Capital Research Center,
the excellent tracker of foundations, charities, and other nonprofits. Scott
testified earlier this week at the House Juduciary Subcommittee on
Oversight's hearing titled how this nonprofit networks exploit Federal tax
dollars to advance a radical agenda. Scott may be the
busiest man on Capitol Hill these days when it comes
to Congressional hearings. He has testified at three different congressional
hearings within a matter of six weeks, so you can
imagine he's had his share politicians of late. Scott, thank
you so much for joining us on this edition of
the Federalist Radio Hour.
Speaker 2: Well, it's great to be with you and yes, the
ranking members I've had to deal with on some of
the committees and include Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Russia and Jamie
Raskin go.
Speaker 1: You should get casualty pay, my friend, no doubt about it.
But you are doing the good work, and I think
this is a critical issue moving forward forward, let us
delve into it. Your opening testimony really got at the
point here and if I could just read a bit
from your opening testimony that I think just really nails
the point. Tax dollars should never go to nonprofits best
known for pushing controversial social issues or meddling in politics
here and abroad. Yet that is what so many federally
funded nonprofits, especially those receiving USAID funding, have done. You
have tracked this and you gave kind of an overview,
But what is the extent of the gravy train of
federal tax dollars going to these NGOs?
Speaker 2: Well, of course that's a friendly question, and the friendly
questions are actually the toughest, right. So I was one
of the questions I got at the hearing was what's
the worst grant in the federal government to these things?
And you just ask what's the total grants in this right?
And of course the terrifying answer this is much scarier
than anything anything specific I could give you. The much
scarier answer is to your question, how much money goes
to this stuff? God only knows. We know it's in
the billions. We know with that beyond any doubt, it's
in the billions of dollars going to left wing groups.
But more than that we do not know, right And
I certainly don't know what the absolute worst grant in
the whole federal government is either, because you'd have to
know all of them, and then you'd have to try
to figure out how to rank all these horrific things.
So it's very scary that no one knows how many billions.
But I do want to say something about the hearing, right,
So it was actually this hearing that you're talking about
was not the full House Judiciary Committee. It was the
little tiny Oversight subcommittee of the full committee. And Jasmine
Crockett is the ranking member for the subcommittee. Now, but
you know who was there at that hearing the entire
time was Jamie Raskin, who is the ranking member for
the entire committee. Right now, he shouldn't be bothering with
some little you know, Penny anti subcommittee hearing like this,
But he was there for every single minute. Now, why well,
if you listen to what the words that came out
of his mouth, the answer was because this is so silly,
this is this is enoughing Burger, this is you know,
just a waste of time and nothing here to see.
In which case, why were you there the entire time,
Congressman Raskin, You're an important, powerful man. You shouldn't be
wasting your time on nothing, Burgers. And of course the
answer is the words out of his mouth were the
precise opposite of the truth, which is it is the
point of the hearing was that left wing groups get
a huge amount of funding from the government and it's
it's critical to their ability to harass ordinary Americans and
the currently elected administration. So that's why he was there.
It's very far from nothing. It's a huge hunk of
cash for him and his allies, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: It is significant, it is meaningful, and it has really
in so many cases, as you testified, given the United
States of America, the government of the United States of
America a black eye in so many of these countries
where you have these NGOs pushing initiatives and programs that
defy the cultural basis first and foremost of a lot
of these countries. But who are the if you would,
who are the leading funders that go into these sorts
of NGOs. Who are the leading NGOs we're talking about here?
Speaker 2: Well, the ones. The two issue areas where the most
billions go to are, first of all, the immigration industrial complex, right. So,
and I'm sad to say I'm a I'm a I'm
a passionate Catholic, but the you know, a lot of
Catholic charities on that gravy train, Lutheran Church World Services
although they changed their name recently, the and they're Jewish,
and other religious charities in the immigration gravy train, and
the Committee on Immigration and Human Rights there. So that's
one huge area. And then the other really huge area
is the enviro world, right, the the the human hating
environmentalist world. And that's also just billions of dollars, you know,
the most problem. You know, my friend Peter Schweitzer, who
did Cling Cash and many other wonderful books, he's he's
doing a big deep dive on on the green slush
funds under the Biden administration. And his view is that
that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was one of
the multi billion dollar things there. He thinks that's the
most corrupt. He thinks that's the most corrupt slush fund
ever created by government, which is quite the impressive achievement. Right.
We know that, for instance, Stacy Abrams was mixed up
in a group that had one hundred dollars in its
bank account before the billion dollars came in from the
federal government. Again, again, you cannot make this stuff up.
Speaker 1: Well, if you want to know the significance and the
power of these organizations, obviously there's a lot of Soros
cash and what have you, usual suspects behind this. But
if you want to know how powerful these groups are,
just check out the memos. You've gotten copies of these,
the communications between the Biden administration and the NGOs that
sat down to create something we like to call Biden Bucks,
and that is the full on government federal government sponsored
get out the vote effort for the Democratic Party. Those
NGOs were in that room setting it up. They wouldn't
be in that room, of course, if they didn't have
a red line phone to the Democrat President of the
United States.
Speaker 2: Now, the Biden Bucks is an under reported scandal, although
not at the Federalists, because you guys do probably the
best election integrity reporting of any outlet in America. God
bless you, and especially Molly. I know Molly is a
driver behind and that goodness, along with all your many
good reporters. But Demos, a left wing think tank in
New York, appears to have been the place that had
the brain wave to have the federal government become a
Democratic Party election turnout machine. The nonprofits. Soros, especially in
his group and others, had been doing this through in
the nonprofit sector for literally decades without anybody bringing any
accountability to them. But then they had the thought of, well,
my goodness, if Joe Biden's going to be president, why
shouldn't we have, you know, the Small Business Administration and
the Department of Agriculture turning out votes for our preferred
political party. So yes, it was hatched in the left
wing nonprofit world like Demos, But then they brought it
to the tax dollar world, which is just so outrageous,
and as you well know, they stonewalled everybody who was
trying to dig out information about this. They refused to
honor Foyer requests, which was completely outrageous, although I understand it,
you know, it would have been very harmful to them.
Speaker 1: Well, that's absolutely right. And the reason that they had
to block all of this information that rightly should have
been going out much sooner, and the Department of Justice
got involved in that is because exactly what you were
testifying on before this Congressional subcommittee. And I want to
get back to the immigration side of things, because one of,
if not the most disastrous portions of Joe Biden's legacy
is the invasion of the United States through his open
door policies on illegal immigration. How much were the groups
like Catholic charities and these others involved in that invasion.
Speaker 2: Well, first, just in money terms, again we are talking
billions of dollars. And then I think in my testimony,
you know, I cited one of the other hearings i'd
done recently, the testimony there of Mark Grekorian of the
Center for Immigration Studies. You know, the way that he
puts it is through cash, legal advice, mental health sessions,
and travel help. These groups constructed a de facto shadow
immigration system, and this parallel system operates in direct defiance
of US federal immigration law. GET is financed in part
by congressional appropriations. Right, So the better way to understand
it is literally, throughout the whole of Latin America, you
have all these groups that are doing everything they can
to encourage and assist people without a legal right to
enter the United States to nonetheless make their way to
and across the US border. Now, the justification these groups
want to give is like, we help you know, poor
people in struggling people and what And hey, I agree,
if the cartels smuggled you across the border, I'm sure
you're suffering and in need of some help, right. But
the point is, it's one thing to say someone is
here and struggling and suffering and needs our help. It's
another thing to have been pushing them for thousands of
miles before they got to that border. That's a very
different thing. And yet that is what so many of
these groups were doing. And by the way, the more
people who cross the border, the more tax dollars the
groups will get on this side of the border.
Speaker 1: It's a convenient situation, isn't it. It's a relationship of convenience, certainly.
And then on the other side of that, when you
have a President Trump two point oh, this administration that
is working to clean up the mess of the former administration.
You have those same groups that are involved in the protest.
Some of them are involved in the violence and the
rioting that's going on. And here is the rub against Scott.
The American taxpayer is paying for that too, are they not.
Speaker 2: That's true, and that brings up a point I should
have made earlier, arguably, so namely, when I say that
it's not possible to say all the money, I mean
it is simply not possible. And this is a great example.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So, you in some of these cities where you're seeing
riots against the ice officers, a lot of the folks
doing it are going to be like local, locally based
activist groups, not big national groups, local activist groups, and
you know, Seattle or Portland, whatnot. Now, those groups will
often be feeding at the local taxpayer trough for things
like homelessness advocacy or Sorry services, homelessness services. Right So,
I'm a little group in Portland and I'm getting some
cash out of the Portland City Council or the Portland
Mayor's office to allegedly help with the homeless problem. But
really I'm a radical activist group, and now that the
outraged doujour is the Ice folks, Well, I'm going to
take my locally tax paid folks and go attack Ice folks.
But guess what those local tax dollars that may well
be something that came from the state of Oregon, and
it's in turn may have gotten a chunk of that
money from a federal program. So you can have a
federal program going to a state, going to a city,
going to a little local activist groups throwing bricks at
ice officers.
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Speaker 1: That is a very important point, the fungible nature, of
course of all of this funding. And I'm curious are
you getting any assurances, particularly from Republicans on Capitol Hill,
that they're going to do a congressional investigation into this,
because I know, you know, obviously you guys have done
excellent work on this front, and there are others as well,
but this sounds to me like, you know, a red
light going off for congressional investigation.
Speaker 2: Well, the three testimonies in six weeks have all been
roughly connected to this sort of thing, the nonprofit abuses
and their connections to you know, heavily funded groups. So
and I was in the Senate Judiciary, the House Judiciary,
and the House Oversight doge folks. So so there clearly
is growing uproar in Congress about this. Now having said that,
it's you know, congressional resources for investigations are limited and
they're really going to need a lot of cooperation, which
I think this in this administration may just happen. Like
you mentioned Biden Bucks, like the appropriate committees in Congress
should be demanding that every department of the federal government
because they all were mixed up in Biden Bucks to
one degree, or another. All of that stuff ought to
be ought to come out and go on the public record. Yes,
And to the extent that there were you know, career
bureaucrats inviting their good buddies at places like the Voter
Participation Center and League of Conservation Voters and whatnot, those
people ought to be in danger. Well, they ought to
receive accountability and therefore be in danger of, you know,
maybe not being career bureaucrats anymore. But as I said,
Congress has limited investigative investigative powers, and to be perfectly on,
they don't score a plus's in it. You know. One
of the complaints I make is I'll testify any time.
But you know you ought to be having the actual
bad guys here too, right, So why not have Church
World Services have to come and justify what they've done
that's not a crazy thing. Or if it's like the
Voter Participation Center, well that's a C three public charity
not supposed to be doing anything partisan, including doing partisan
voter registration. They ought to be on the hot seat,
and then their donors ought to be you know, the
first panel lot to be the actual activist doing bad stuff,
and the second panel ot to be the people giving
the money from the private sector, including private foundations getting
that benefit from tax exemption. Those folkst to be the
next ones on the hot seat. Are you going to
promise me you're never going to give money to this
corrupt voter Participation Center or whoever the appropriate bad guys
are those that ought to be the first two panels.
Then you can put me in some other folks like
me on the third panel, and we'll tell you where
they lied in panel one, in panel two, and we'll
bring the receipts.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Indeed, well here is a crazy off the wall
idea for you, Scott. Congress should actually know where the
hell this money is going, right, and they don't. And
they don't because the way the system is set up
that there are big checks written in general categories and
we have executive branch bureaucrats using that money, shaping that money,
as you mentioned before, working with their buddies and their
allies and NGOs to feed in their favorites. Of course, you.
Speaker 2: Know that's absolutely true. There ought to be ruthless audits.
I mean, you know, Doze and Musk talked repeatedly about
the fact that so many checks get and sent out
of the Treasury that literally don't even say what they're for. Now,
you know, as somebody who has to run a small nonprofit,
I can tell you my auditors would have me in
jail if I did that, right, I don't get to
write checks that don't say what they're for, and don't
try because this is the thing the departments don't know.
If you told us aid in State Department, we want
to know where every penny went, they couldn't tell you
at gunpoint. That's how atrocious this system is. And it's
only possible, of course, because we have such obese government
that it's you know, it doesn't even know what it's doing,
literally doesn't know what it's doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it truly is breathtaking where all of this stands.
But you're you're absolutely right. Because of this morbidly obese
government that we we have added to and added to
over many, many years, we find ourselves in the same
problem over and over again. Our guest today is Scott Walter,
president of Capital Research Center, the excellent tracker of foundations, charities,
other nonprofits. Again, Scott testified earlier this week at the
House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversights hearing titled how leftist nonprofit
networks exploit federal tax dollars to advance a radical agenda,
an extremely radical agenda. You said this during your testimony.
The same improper funding hurts our politics as well. We
hear a lot about so called dark money in politics,
But what is darker than the funding of alleged charities
that work in foreign countries to elect politicians they like
to say, the European Parliament, or to enact government policies
involving controversial issues like prostitution and abortion. That is rampant
in these NGAs. But let's start with that first point.
We have NGOs electing, helping to elect, or countenancing people
who are direct enemies countries that are direct enemies of
the United States of America. How does that happen?
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, you know, you're right. And by the way,
one of the person next to me on the witness
panel was Mike Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation, who's brilliant
on this, and he focused a lot of his testimony
on those details. So you know, Uh, George Soros and
his leftists, well they don't they hate any government right
that's to the right of Uh, well done to the right. Yeah,
to the to the to the right of Mitt Romney,
or really to the right of Hillary Clinton, it would
be a more action true, true.
Speaker 1: And there we go.
Speaker 2: So so in country after country like Albania, Macedonia, Guatemala.
I mean, because he's active all over the world. Right,
there's no continent that doesn't have Soros on it. And
so they will be by various means. They will you know,
they'll be funding like LGBT groups that they think are
going to vote left, or youth groups that are going
to vote left, or they'll be funding investigative journalists that
only investigate the left's enemies. So this is going on
all over the world, to the outrage, of course of
the poor locals. And but under the Obama administration, Soros
was virtually the Deputy Secretary of State and his networks
were all over the world, were getting your tax dollars.
And then you had a fair bit of that reappeared
in the Biden administration, where again groups like the East
West Institute and whatnot were that are largely Soros vehicles.
We're getting tax dollars. So it's just completely outrageous. And
by the way, the the Soros leaks, which yes, probably
were hacked out by Russian intel services. Although I personally
have had things I've written the Conservative donors hacked out
by Russian intelligence services, and Sheldon white House is happy
to use the Russian intel hacked So I think it's
a fair game for all of us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: So the point is those Soros leaks showed internal memos
from the Soros private foundations in America explaining how in
their complex network abroad, because there's you may not know this,
there's an Open Society Prague, and an Open Society Macedonia,
and on and on and on. Right, they have their
own little things there that then again regrind yet again
to some other actual activist group. When you look at
their internal records, you see that they're literally saying, Okay,
we're going to give money to this group in name
your country to affect who gets elected to the European Parliament.
Now that's wildly illegal because no American five oh one
C three, whether it's a private foundation like the Open
Society Foundations, or a you know, or a think tank
like my think tank, you know, if you're a five
to one C three of any flavor, you are not
allowed to intervene in elections, and yet their own documents
explain how they're trying to get the right people, elect
the people who agree with them elected, and try to
unelect people that they don't like. They've never been held
to account for that in any way whatsoever, other than
have me talk about it for years.
Speaker 1: Soros is the socialist version of Starbucks. As you say
they are, they are literally everywhere on every continent. So really,
what you have just laid out is something that I
think all Americans should know, and that is Sorrows and
his ilk when they're when they are injecting massive amounts
of cash into these organizations, these radical organizations, it is
about power. It's it's ultimately not about helping people in need.
It is about power. It is about control, is it not.
Speaker 2: I think that that has to be the explanation. Everybody
is always asking me, like, well, he's a billionaire, what's
you know. Normal people think, Hey, if I were a billionaire,
I'd have a lot of fun and I wouldn't bother
many people, right, But apparently that's not true when you
actually have the billions, Because yeah, sorrows doesn't I mean
God Us Macedonian Albania, But right, I mean what sort
of person lies awake at night worried about the governments
of Macedonia and Albania and the answers, well, he and
his minions do, because by God, they're going to they're
interfering with him. In fact, the Albanian prime minister he
helped get elected was just at Alex Soros's you know,
obscenely wealthy wedding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it, you know. And that's
the question too, that comes up. We kind of talked
about it before with the local protest against the Trump
administration's immigration enforcement policies. But how many of these NGOs,
or are some of these NGOs involved in beyond radical
ideas but moving into violence and supporting violence and violent
actors like for instance, Hamas or hesbelat As. We talk
about those critical geopolitical issues going on, and if that's
the case, our taxpayer is funding that as well.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'll break some news for you. Our
next report on Soros is going to lay out when
as you know, Matt, if we say it, we document it.
That's my rule here. If you can't document it, and
if you work for me, you cannot say it in
public unless you can document it. Everything we say is
thoroughly documented. So we are going to thoroughly document the
all of the groups that have endorsed terrorism. I don't
mean they've said they don't like Israel or that they
think that American foreign policy in the Middle East is terrible.
I mean endorsed, supported, cheered for terrorism. And there's going
to be more than eighty million sorows dollars that have
gone into groups that do that. And there are many
more groups. You know, they're not all funded by Soros.
A lot of them are funded by tides or other
pass through entities, like this thing called Westpac that nobody's
ever heard of, but it's critical to the violent protests
in favor of Hamas around the country. So you have
all kinds. Literally, we've identified at least one hundred and
fifty lefty groups that have endorsed terrorism, not all of
them funded by Soros. And you can be sure that
some of those are getting if they're you know, they
could be getting taxpayer dollars in some instances from the
federal government. They could be getting as we talked about
state and local government moneies. One thing they definitely get is,
you know, the Students for Justice in Palestine's probably the
single most important group on violence on campus, and of
course they're on a lot there. They claim to be
on over three hundred campuses. That's probably somewhat overblown, but
they're on dozens and dozens, and some of those are
going to be private campuses like Columbia, but some of
them are going to be your local state university that
your tax dollars are going to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and I mean that ultimately is the problem,
is that these tax dollars continue to pay for radical thoughts, certainly,
but radical action ultimately is the problem. What what about
the social issues? You talk about abortion, the trans movement nationally.
You know, we've seen a lot of the crazy reports
about USA and others, you know, dumping in cash into
Latin American countries to push these social agendas and abortion.
What what can be done, you know, to to rain
that in, to stop this flow of money because there
are so many different justifications that have come before about
all of these initiatives and priorities so to speak.
Speaker 2: Well, again, you know, thorough going congressional oversight is going
to be critical to that. You know, I'm sure the
current administration will be doing a whole lot less because
the allegedly racist people in the current administration are not
trying to go kill babies of people of color around
the world, unlike say Hillary Clinton. But you know, there's well,
the so called Mexico City policy, which for bad American
money going to pro abortion groups abroad is a really
important policy. It'd be nice if that could be written
into law so that it's not a matter of you know,
whoever happens to be in the Oval office this afternoon,
and Congress again should just really be policing this sort
of thing thoroughly. Although in fairness, because it's so massive,
it is very hard to do.
Speaker 1: That, it is. And so I guess that's the question too.
How do you get a Congress to actually rewrite laws,
right laws to protect tax dollars to going to these
far left entities that have politics in mind when the
Democrats in Congress are benefiting from these organizations, partnering and
allies of these organizations.
Speaker 2: No, it's true, And that's why this last hearing was,
you know, the way they described it was so beautiful
that these are this is the left funding its own infrastructure,
the left achieving its own agenda items at home and
all over the world using other people's tax dollars. Now,
you knowmultiple Conservatives at that hearing said, look, I don't
like what George Soros does with his money, and I'm
going to criticize it. But he has a right to
spend his own money on you know, to push views,
to push his views. But the idea of billionaires common
during ordinary Americans, working Americans taxes to to you know,
make their megaphones bigger. That's again, the the injustice of it.
Let us even say, the social injustice is off the chart.
And it's so you have members of the Democratic Party
in Congress who say billionaires should not exist, who simultaneously
will defend those billionaires tax dollars that they get for
their own groups. It's I'll never understand.
Speaker 1: It, their favorite oligarchies in the parlance of Bernie Standers, right,
And that's that's that's what it boils down to. Well,
I mean, and and that's a big question as well.
We have seen the dangers, the constant dangers back to
immigration again of these cartels. The United States is effectively
in a kind of war with these cartels. How many
of these nonprofits are working with the cartels, defeating the
security of this country.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, this is something you want to talk about,
something that ought to be on the conscience of all
the religious workers in the immigration field. You know, how
many people that you urged to leave their village in
Honduras or Columbia or Peru or Mexico. How many of
those people that you urged and assisted up toward that
American border then got exploited by Cartel's right. You know,
James O'Keefe not that long ago, had you know, undercover
interviews with folks in this immigration industrial complex, and you had,
you know, some aid workers yelling at other aid workers
like you're putting you know, this fifteen year old girl
on an airplane to Minnesota, do you know have any
idea who's going to be there at the other end?
And they just didn't care.
Speaker 1: Amazing, that's heartbreaking, It's really well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but by the way, speaking of this kind of grotesque hypocrisy,
let me point out something at the hearing. I unfortunately
none of the members raised this. I'd raised it obliquely,
but you know, the Democrats had one witness, ambassador to Baca,
who was for some years under Obama head of the
anti human Trafficking Office at the State Department, right, And
he's also been a prosecutor, so he is actually a
hero in the fight against human trafficking. But he was
there to justify the money going to the Soros nonprofits.
Tax dollars going to Soros and other people like that
around the world. And that's outrageous because George Soros is
the single biggest driver of decriminalizing prostitution on the planet.
And I don't think I need to explain too long
how decriminalizing prostitution absolutely is going to drive more human trafficking.
There is absolutely, there's literally, you know, scholarly journal articles
on this, proven by people who are no Trump voters,
no donors of mine, no conservatives. They're you know, women's
activists who think it would be nice if there were
fewer women in sex slavery, and who point out that
the Soro's network is driving decriminalization for prostitution all over
the planet, which absolutely means more girls and women sold
into sex slavery. Now that ambassador to Baca should be
forced to explain how he can excuse money going to
the Soros network when that same network turns around and
fights to decriminalize the prostitution that drives human trafficking.
Speaker 1: It's just insanity, is what it is. And you know,
you think about the recent raids on the marijuana farm
in California. Not only do you have I legal immigrants
working on that farm, people who should not have been
in this country in the first place, you have miners
certainly not following California's very strict labor laws as it
relates to to minors. How do they defend these kinds
of uh, you know, twists in logic? And I guess
more importantly than that, do you believe the American people
are finally getting it, at least the majority of American
people are getting it that there are groups out there
that have been given a great deal of American fortune
to act against the interest of America.
Speaker 2: I do think that folks are understanding more and more
and again. You know, one of the things I said
in my testimony is this is, you know, funding this
left wing network is literally democracy suppression.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: They don't want to they want to have a voter suppression.
This is democracy suppression. So many left wing things that
our government has been funding with our tax dollars are
opposed by strong majorities of Americans and immigration is a
fantastic example. The left is literally in the streets rioting
about immigration enforcement, and yet the last polls I saw
from just the last forty eight hours are no, Actually,
large majorities of Americans don't want illegal immigrants violating the
law in the being and being in the country, and
they especially don't want them committing crimes against our neighbors
and ourselves. So, you know, this is the whole point.
If they had to get this approved by majorities, it couldn't.
It's critical that this all stay in the shadows where
people don't know about it. That's why Jamie Raskin was
there for every second of that hearing, because they're horrified
that Americans are going to learn the truth about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot at stake, no doubt about it.
So final question for you. You know, a lot of
people never thought that we could get to a point
where we're actually talking about defunding of Planned Parenthood, federal
funds going out of Planned Parenthood because interestingly enough, it's
not quite the women's health center that they like to
call it. Nonetheless, you know, that's been a long, hard
fight for the pro life movement in America. For a
long time. So I guess if you think about that,
you have to imagine that there is hope that we
have the will in Congress to cut the funding to
some of the more egregious NGOs out there. Do you
see that happening?
Speaker 2: Well, yes, the Planned Parenthood is a beautiful example. Now
we'll see if they can really make it stick. But
it is it is ever going to be easy, right
the Recisions Bill, which you know was not even pennies
on the dollar. Really, you know, they can barely pass that. So,
you know, concerned Americans need to keep up the pressure
on Congress about not having tax dollars wasted in all
these ways.
Speaker 1: Indeed, and there's so much waste going on, I mean
just simple waste. But then when you're looking at where
these dollars are going, the radicalization of populations. Again, money
spent not in the interest of this country for so
many reasons. This is an extremely important topic. Thanks for
joining us today, Scott.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it, really appreciate being here.
Speaker 1: Matt b. That's Scott Walter, president of Capital Research Center,
tremendous tracker of foundations, chair these other nonprofits. You've been
listening to another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm
Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the Federalist. We'll be
back soon with more. Until then, stay lovers of freedom.
I'm anxious for the fray.
Speaker 2: I heard the fame, voice the Reason, and then
Speaker 1: It faded away.