The Biden government hired 80,000 new IRS agents to make sure YOU followed every one of their complicated tax laws. But when President Trump ordered DOGE to audit the government, politicians and the media squealed! That should speak volumes about what their true priorities are, Glenn says. Glenn and Pat review some of the latest pushback from the establishment, including how Democrats are whining about Elon Musk and how a judge tried to block even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing Treasury data.
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GLENN: You know, it's astonishing how many people have found a very clear common sense voice and a lack of fear.
They seem to be all over this administration.
Stephen Miller is one of them, don't you think, Pat?
PAT: Definitely.
And he was talking about the angry Dems. And had some things to say about them. Deputy chief, Stephen Miller, cut 14.
VOICE: The Democrat use of the term unelected is really quite remarkable here. Donald Trump was elected in an overwhelming landslide.
These are Donald Trump staffers. It's like saying that Mike Walls, National Security adviser is unelected. Or Susan Wiles, the chief of staff is unelected. Or Donald Trump's communication team is unelected.
This is presidential staff that serves at the pleasure and for the president, just as I do. I am a staffer, for the president of the United States. He is elected. He is the one that the American people have chosen to implement his agenda. This is the agenda the American people voted for.
That he is asking his staff. His subordinates. His employees. To implement.
The unelected power in this country is the rogue bureaucracy.
USAID is unelected. The FBI, that persecuted President Trump for eight years, is unelected.
The CIA and those who have laundered intelligence to try to change the foreign policy of the United States are unelected.
President Trump is restoring democracy, by controlling the federal bureaucracy.
There is one man in the country, who is elected bit whole American people, to implement an agenda they support. That is the president.
Every other officer in this country, members of Congress and Senate are elected at the state and local level. The Constitution puts one man in charge of the federal executive branch. And that's the president.
GLENN: Understood. Understood.
PAT: Let him finish.
GLENN: He's absolutely awesome.
And absolutely right.
I mean, that's the thing -- I just don't understand. When they were -- when the federal judge tried to block and did for this weekend.
But it's not going to last long.
Tried to block the secretary of the Treasury
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: From even looking at the data, that is produced by the Treasury?
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: Who is running things? My gosh.
PAT: Well, Treasury secretary Scott Bessent was interviewed over the weekend, and he had some things to say about -- just about that!
VOICE: Mr. Secretary, we are inside the cash room in the Treasury department. It's almost impossible to overstate how important the work that's done in the US building. Is the US financial system.
Yet right now, there is widespread concern about the DOGE teams access to sensitive payment systems.
Are you worried at all, that that access and that tinkering of the payment systems, could affect the Treasury's market or cause any disruption.
VOICE: Well, good. Thank you for asking me about that.
Because there's a lot of misinformation out there.
First of all, when you say the DOGE team, these are Treasury employees. Two Treasury employees, one of whom I personally interviewed in his final round. There is no tinkering with the system. They are on read only. They are looking. They can make no changes. It is an operational program to suggest improvements. So we make 1.3 billion payments a year. And this is two employees who are working with a group of long-standing employees.
VOICE: The letter that the treasury department sent earlier this week, talked about how the team currently does not have access to change the system.
Have they, at any point this year, had the ability to make changes?
VOICE: Absolutely not. This is no different than you would have at a private company.
By the way, the ability to change the system, sits at the Federal Reserve.
So it does not even lie in this building. So they can make suggestions on how to change the system, but we don't even run the system.
VOICE: And if they ask her, they request the ability to change the system. Would you grant that?
VOICE: No. Again, they have no ability to change the system.
I have no ability to grant that change. That they can make suggestions. Then it would go to the Federal Reserve. And just like any large system. There would be tests.
There would be this. There would be that.
And then the fed will determine whether these changes are robust or not.
VOICE: As the Secretary of Treasury, you also oversee the IRS.
Do you know what kind of access the team has to IRS data or individual taxpayer data?
VOICE: Well, I'm glad you asked that too.
Because, look, the IRS, the privacy issue is one of the biggest issues. And over the past four years, we've seen a lot of leaks out of there. The IRS systems are quite poor.
When I started in college in 1980, I learned the program. I think, there are 12 different systems at the IRS that still run on COBOL. But as of now, there is no engagement at the IRS.
VOICE: Elon Musk just a few -- half an hour ago, tweeted out that Treasury needs to stop approving certain payments. Has your staff tried to block any payments at the Treasury?
VOICE: We have not.
And I'm glad you asked that too. And just to put it in perspective, Elon and I are completely aligned in terms of cutting waste and increasing accountability and transparency for the American people.
I believe that this DOGE program in my adult life is one of the most important audits of government. Or changes to government structure, we have seen.
That when I was in my 20s, we had the grace report. And there's some great suggestions that came out of that.
Never implemented under Clinton and Gore.
I think it was to government efficiency. Or to reduce government. Nothing happened.
So, you know, President Trump came in. There's a big agenda.
And I think there are gigantic cost savings for the American people here.
And I think it's unfortunate the way the media wants to lampoon what is going on.
PAT: Yes.
GLENN: Thank you.
VOICE: These are highly trained professionals. And this is not some broken band going around doing things. This is methodical, and it is going to yield big savings.
PAT: Jeez. And what's wrong with that? Is there anything wrong with that? I don't think so.
GLENN: Right. Did you hear a nonhostile question coming from the Bloomberg reporter?
PAT: No. A nonhostile? No. But he handled it in a nonhostile way.
He was great, wasn't he?
GLENN: Yeah, very well.
I mean, yeah. And it's a little scary, that the Treasury Secretary can't make any of these decisions, they're all made by the Federal Reserve.
That's a problem, which is why DOGE wants to bring Ron Paul in for an audit of the Fed, which would be fantastic.
PAT: It would be great.
GLENN: Can you imagine what we would find at the Fed now?
PAT: Oh, my gosh. I can't imagine it. And it's the fed with the power to make these changes.
That's amazing too.
That they can't even do it from the Treasury. That's kind of eye-opening.
But I think they need to use that term audit of government more. Because what's wrong with that.
GLENN: Yes. That's why they're going into the Pentagon. The seventh audit failed.
Let me ask you something: You know, she brings up the IRS.
The government hired 80,000 new IRS agents, to go over your records. To make sure nothing -- no funny business is going on with you.
That you're paying every dime that you're supposed to pay. Because there's a shortfall.
No! There's not a shortfall.
They're spending too much. When we go in, and try to send accountants in, to say, how did you spend this money?
The same thing the IRS does to you, every year, they squeal like little pigs.
I don't know.
If -- you know, you went in to the IRS every year with the attitude that the Democrats have.
You would be audited every year. Because somebody, probably rightfully so would go, wait a minute.
Why are you panicking so much. Why are you saying we can't have access to your records?
This is a legal operation. What's happening here?
And it -- it kills me that the media is sticking up for corruption.
Whose side are they on?
PAT: Well, they're on the side of corruption. Because they're benefiting from it.
And that's been the problem for how many decades now?
How many centuries now?
GLENN: I know. I know.
PAT: Have we run the nation in a way that the Founding Fathers intended, since, I don't know. 1830. Probably not.
GLENN: No. So, you know what, I have a copy of the first budget. It was on the front page of a Columbia newspaper from South Carolina.
And it -- it lays out George Washington's budget.
And it actually asks Congress to increase the budget for firewood, because the Capitol was cold.
And they needed extra firewood to keep things warm.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And I don't even know if that got passed. I have no idea if that got passed.
PAT: Jeez.
GLENN: But that's the way we should be. Oh, you know what, put a sweater on, Congress. Oh, you're a little cold in there. Put a sweater on.
PAT: Exactly.
GLENN: They're the ones that should be putting the sweater on. Not us. Not us.
PAT: Look how Thomas Jefferson struggled with the Louisiana Purchase.
I mean, we almost didn't do it. Because he thought, it wasn't proper. He thought it was unconstitutional.
But it turned out to be too good a deal, and we did it anyway.
But they had a completely different mindset. You know, the funds that the federal government had, that they got from American taxpayers, whether they pay in excise taxes, or wherever their taxes came from. Those were sacred funds.
And they didn't just throw them out to anybody for any reason.
GLENN: Yes. And look at --
PAT: We've got to get back to that.
GLENN: We can spend a trillion dollars and have it all just vanish on us.
But if Donald Trump says, let's take $2 trillion and buy Greenland.
Everybody would freak out. Which one should you freak out about?
The investment, or the loss?
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: It's -- it's -- it's an unspeakable horror, what is going on. And how the people are reacting to it.
You know, everybody in America should be happy about this.
One other truth speaker. Somebody else who is just very good at saying exactly what he means. And getting right to the truth. Is Hegseth.
Here he is, talking about our strength. Cut 22.
VOICE: I think the single dumbest phrase in military history, is our diversity is our strength.
I think our strength is our unity. Our strength is our shared purpose. Regardless of our background. Regardless of how we grew up. Regardless of our gender. Regardless of our race. In this department, we will treat everyone equally.
We will treat everyone with fairness. We will treat everyone with respect, and we will judge you as an individual by your merit. And by your commitment to the team and the mission.
That's how it has been. That's how it will be.
Any inference otherwise, is meant to divide or create complications, that otherwise should not and do not exist.
GLENN: I've got to tell you. How is that controversial at all?
We're -- you know why they keep teams together.
You go through buds and you keep that team together, because their strength is their unity. You don't send them into war with a bunch of people that are all different with each other. You send them into war that all have different skills, yes.
But are acting as one, with one purpose.
