Scott Powell - Newsmax, Sr. Fellow At The Discovery Center Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seventy two is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm not singing the blues over unemployment claims, well of
some of them, I guess. Breitbart Reporting the Department of
Government Efficiency DOGE has posted some pretty shocking findings from
a survey of unemployment insurance claims since twenty twenty, which
found individual far too young as in under the age

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of five and far too old over the age of
one hundred and fifteen, claiming some two hundred and fifty
four million dollars in unemployment benefits. Is it just inefficiencies
or is it fraud? Scott Paul joins US newsback senior
fellow at the Discovery Center. You got any theories on this, Scott?

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Is to where all this waste we're finding in all
these different departments. Is is it more about fraud or
is it more about inefficiencies inaccuracies and just not getting
the job done.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I would tend to think that it's more more of
a problem of fraud, because I think that these funds
that are distributed to non existing people, they're going somewhere
and it's been orchestrated. In other words, these these things
don't happen by accident. They happen by people that are

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gaining the system, and that's what Dog is finding out,
and that's what we need. We've needed it for years.
So people should, uh, you know what Dose is doing
because it's bringing about honest, more honest accounting accountability of government,
something that is just essential. And our country is just

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out of control with debt. We can't we can't allow
the debt to be increasing. Even even if we root
out most of the fraud, we still have to tackle
how we're going to really move to a what we
call a balanced budget where we're taking in as much
in resources as we are spending by government agencies. Yeah,

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we're a long way away.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Actually, I think they were really hoping to find more
waste and fraud than they have already. Not that they
haven't found hundreds of billions of dollars worth, but I
think the goal initially was maybe two trillion dollars worth.
I don't think they're going to get there.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
To you, no, I don't think so. No, I don't
think there's.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
That being the case. And given how large our deficit
is that there really is no choice but to pare
down these departments, which is the other thing the Trump
administration is trying to do, but they run into court
battles every time it seems they've tried to get rid
of a department or employees.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, what American people are waking up to is the
politicized nature of our country. And it's not just a
traditional Democrat and Republican. We have a level of corruption
in our country that really threatens the proper functioning of
our constitutional republic. It is totally inappropriate for judges, federal

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judges whose jurisdiction is some area in the country, to
uh be involved in blocking the executive branches ability to
carry out the people's will to carry out its job.
People voted for Donald Trump for a lot of different reasons,
not the least of which was the department the deporting

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of illegal aliens, uh And what judge should stand in
the way if people are here illegally, and we know
that millions have come into our country and this is
just a it's unacceptable. So we've we've got the we
we've we've we've got constitutional cases on our separation of

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powers cases. And I suppose we could say this is
all good, because it's it. You know, we have to
have legal battles in order to get to in order
to get to a proper functioning or you know, traffic
has to stay in its own lane, right If you're
out of your lane, you get into an accident. And

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that's really what's happened, is that our constitution, which has
a separation of powers, is not functioning as it should
because we have the judiciary in the involved in both now,
not just legislating law, but also blocking the executive branch
from carrying out its duty.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
And that includes, by the way, the Supreme Court. If
you want to talk about that so called Maryland man
who is whether or not he's a gang member or
secretary of the fact that he was sent back to
his country of origin, El Salvador, and he was here illegally.
That should be the end of it, shouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
It should be absolutely.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
All right, sir, Thank you for your time today. Appreciate it.
Scott Powell Newsmack, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Center at
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