DataRepublican’s Mission: Uncovering Government Fraud to Save the Country with Determination

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1:35The data Republican, it almost sounds like she's a superhero, but this person is single-handedly identifying so much fraud and waste in the government. It's ridiculous. And I think, look, regardless of whether you're a Democrat or Republican or independent or whatever, everyone agrees there shouldn't be waste in the government. There shouldn't be fraud in the government. Like I remember stories of, oh, the military just bought a pencil for$6 million. I mean, these were true stories because you could track all this data. Now the data is very hard to find. So what Data Republican has done is build tools to go through all the government data, which is publicly accessible, but you kind of have to dig to find interesting things.

2:23She goes through all the government data and uses AI to find things that are potentially wasteful. Let's not say fraudulent, but at least wasteful. We want taxpayer dollars saved. But here's the interesting thing. And by the way, Data Republican's been so useful and successful that Elon Musk used her stuff to help identify waste in the government. But here's the thing. And Data Republican, by the way, you can find her on Twitter or you can go to datarepublican.com where she has all these tools where you can even help her find government waste. she's both deaf and mute. She's been deaf almost since birth.

3:03She can't hear. She's never made a phone call in her life, for instance. And she's mute. She does not speak. So we also had on the data interpreter, her translator, who you'll see the two of them in action. But I really wanted to understand, what is the fraud? And again, fraud's a strong word. What is the waste that she's been uncovering? What does she see? What is she working on? What tools can we use on her website? How did she get her start doing this? Like, I really wanted to know. I wanted to understand, is there actual deliberate waste? And so had a great conversation. We edited out a lot of the kind of silent parts as she's using sign language.

3:48The data interpreter basically was translating for her. Well, listen and learn. This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. This is the James Altucher show.

4:10My main, the main issue I want to understand is just at a very high level. Is there waste, fraud, and corruption in government? And how does it work? That's issue number one. Issue number two is her amazing story, like just how she got interested in this, particularly dealing with her various, you know, being deaf and so on. And then the main thing is I just really want to understand the fraud and possible corruption in government. And that I'm a fan. I'm coming to this from a positive place. Yes, of course. I'm so happy and it's so nice to meet you. So where should I start? I made a lot of discoveries, but I think the biggest thing that happened this week, you know, I was looking for James O 'Keefe.

5:04He's exposed people in the military. And when I got that, when that happened, the person texts me directly through my phone. and I analyzed this video where this person appeared. Well, it appeared that the video was making a strange NGO called USGLC, which is the US Global Leadership Council. And you know, it's not very big, maybe$10 million, you know, but you need to understand that this thing is full of many politicians from different parties. Sam Ritter, Nom Desker, I mean, all these people, many, many people. And a lot of corporations too, right? Oh yes, lots of corporations. Powerful corporations too.

5:53Pfizer, I mean, it's so many. It's Walmart, Pfizer, huge companies. Catholic Repos services, so many things. They took credit for what? They took credit for$95 billion, dollars, a 95 billion dollar bill to pass at the end of the year. To fund USAID, USAID? Foreign aid, whatever that means. And why did they do that? Why did they want to increase, why did all these corporations want to increase government funding to foreign aid? Because the other interesting thing that I started looking for, that I started discovering was all of these companies get money from the government, all of them. Why would, for instance, Walmart get government funding?

6:41And what does that look like? Or you mentioned Disney. I know you mentioned Disney in a post. Why would Disney get government funding for anything? Honestly, I don't know. It doesn't make any sense. Why would these huge companies need funding from the government? Disney accepted money for, I think, I'm not, I haven't looked super deep into it, But it looks like Disney specifically accepted money for film distribution to the military. Like, why does Disney need help distributing film? Yeah, why can't I get$4 million to send email or to mail films to the military? I know, it's ridiculous. But I want to share something with you that I haven't shared on Twitter yet.

7:21You ready? I figured out that USAID has an outside board full of members from private companies, and they get other benefits. And you know who sits on their boards? They say that they're an advisory board. But we know that they actually influence and give advice to where the money goes. Whoever sits on those boards decides where the money goes. The CEO of USGLC is one of the people who sits on these boards that decides where all this crazy money goes. So they decide where the USAID money goes? Yep. And so is USGLC part of the government or it's a separate? Because the US makes it seem it's part of the government.

8:06Technically, they don't accept money, but they're technically private. You know, most of their finance is from Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation, the actual Gates Foundation and Soros. So, you know, it's like an influence group. It's just a big influence club. They go to Congress and they all lobby and they all try to introduce bills, pass bills. And then they sit on the actual boards of these companies that are awarded this money from these bills. And then they get to decide where the money goes. So it's like they are introducing the bills, they're getting the money from the bill, and then they also get to decide where the money goes.

8:51Are the bills sending money to USAID or directly to Disney or Walmart or whatever? How does the money flow work? Well, I mean, in the government? I'm still trying to research that. They make it really hard to understand on purpose. It's obvious to me that it's very enmeshed and buried on purpose. And how do they make it difficult? So they're lobbying Congress. The USGLC lobbies Congress to, let's say, have some huge funding. How does it end up at Walmart or Pfizer or Disney? Let me step back a little bit. So the USGLC represents many, many top people from a variety of different companies. I mean, Walmart, Disney, these are included in this group of people.

9:40USGLC itself is quite small. Like I said, it's only around$10 million from private investors that they got. But the company itself, they spend all this money lobbying for laws that benefit them and things like this. And then they're getting paid a lot of money and donations too. It's like the money goes from the top to this little fund and then goes all the way to all of these other companies. The lobbying. People like Bill Gates and George Soros donate to USGLC and on the GLC board is executives from all these corporations. They lobby government and then the government passes bills that fund USAID or NGOs or directly to the companies.

10:28Which way does the money flow? The company lobbies, and they make Congress pass the bills. And then USGLC, which are all these leaders of these companies, sit on this committee. Then they decide where the money goes. And what they always decide is that they give it back to themselves. Because all these people on the USGLC are from these companies that are lobbying the government for money. So they just pay themselves. And what's the company? Like who's getting funded by Congress? What's the committee? Is it a USAID committee? Is it a government committee? What's the committee that's making these decisions?

11:06I'm still trying to figure that out. It's a hot topic. I was making a thread today, but it's a voluntary foreign aid. That's what they call it, a voluntary foreign aid, called ACVSA. And that influences the board on this voluntary foreign aid. And it influences other committees and people who sit on other committees that do voluntary foreign aid. Quote unquote. It's influence where USAID money goes. So we pay for influence. And who sits on the committee is CEO of USLC, also Pepsi Corporation. He's one of it sits on there and many more big names that we know. And how do they influence USAID? Well, advice, right?

11:50They give advice. They have a list of how they do things, but it's their role. They market themselves as advisors. To USAID? Sorry, I don't have details on that. I'm still looking into that. That's part of the deal, but they market themselves as advisors. And what's the most egregious example, or give an example, of a situation where it seems outlandish that Congress allocated money to USAID. USAID then funded some ridiculous organization because of the advice of these people. There's lots of examples. It's a hard choice to make. It's hard to choose because this stuff is ridiculous. I can't believe it.

12:36Yes, I have a good example. Yes, this one's good. So, yes. Good one. At some point, USAID, it's not like government money, but I would say that, you know, this morning I found out that Land O 'Lakes, yeah, the butter, Land O 'Lakes, they accepted a couple million, one million in USAID money as well. I think a hundred million. A hundred million. Yes, a hundred million. I don't know why. So USAID just gave them a hundred million and there was no purpose to it? Oh, well, no, not really. Another weird example I have is that Yale, the university, Yeah, we give money to Yale to set up a police organization in Mexico.

13:17Why do we give money to Yale for them to set up cops in Mexico? And so who benefits from this? What individuals are benefiting from it? Is there any money being taken out of the system and just put into someone's pockets to make them rich? It's hard to say. They really hide that on purpose. That's what they really want to hide. Because in my experience, it's very complicated. And normally what happens is that it's not that like one person becomes super rich really quick. Instead, it's an entire organization making itself its own stope. And then it does its own work with its government funding and becomes bigger and bigger and bigger.

13:59And it's just always about more money. And then it's the organization that they use to hide how everyone gets paid. So it's hard to see who exactly is becoming really rich or if one person is becoming really rich. It's not exactly like that. It's a little bit more. But also, then when an organization becomes bigger, like I was saying, they feel like that justifies more money because you have to pay, right? On top. So if you control$100 million in payment instead of$5 million, then the top people get paid more, right? Yeah. So from what I understand, USAID funds NGOs, these non-governmental organizations, and they don't really have to account so much for the money.

14:49Are there people there, former government officials, who are getting huge salaries at these NGOs? Or are these NGOs then taking the money and donating back to political parties, either Democrat or Republican? It's hard to explain in that way because there's no person who's individually becoming the richest and the worst. It's everyone involved. It's a whole group of people that are skimming off. And then what happens is that the NGOs grow in power because they control more things. And if it's a private company, that means the stock grows as well, which means the top people get raises. And if you're in the company, then you have stock.

15:35I see. So the NGOs that get money from USAID, that gets money from Congress, the NGOs might then hire Walmart or Land O 'Lakes or Disney to provide some services to the government that are irrational, perhaps. And then those stocks go up in the long run. It's all about collective power. You have to understand that. There's not just one big bad monster. There's no big, evil, bad person who's controlling all of this. It's not a Lex Luthor situation. And so what is the agenda of these companies or these NGOs that are benefiting from the government sending the money? Because the money goes all around.

16:22Everyone gets paid. And it's power. It's not only money. It depends on the NGO itself, really. For example, it's clear that Soros has his own motivations, right? But I think for most people, it's just getting money. It's just their job. They're just doing their job. They're just working. And it's this really small faction of people that are made up of both parties, Republican and Democrat, that are trying to control them. Is any of the money going from USAID to NGOs going back into the political parties through donations? Not directly. But this morning, I was analyzing USGLC companies, and I was looking at those.

17:10And every company I found paid donation money to Democrats more than Republicans. Especially when Harris was against Trump. Almost every single company donated a lot of money to Harris. Now, does USAID have a narrative where some of the things they are doing are against U.S. interests? No. USAID is all about, you know, soft power. It's like the opposite of that. They believe that without foreign aid, then that U.S. democracy will completely fail and that China will take us over if U.S. aid does not have that power. They call themselves a democracy and it's all in the name of protecting democracy.

18:06Because this group of people, they truly believe that if they did not exist, the world would fall and the United States would fall and China would take over everything. They really believe that, and that's why they're doing what they're doing. And what does Data Republican think? Does she think that's, could that be correct? I think that's a very hard question. I don't think it's right to influence other countries like that. We shouldn't be financing wars and color revolutions. For example, U.S. aid money. Finances of circumcisions in Africa. And I think that's just wrong. How is that our business?

18:52Why would they give money to Yale to finance prisons in Mexico? How does Yale help at all? I don't know. But part of my followers researched that. And Yale has a program where we replace police with therapists. We don't know for sure where the money went exactly. So they give the money to this program for replacing cops with therapists, and they call it a prototype. Right. And I imagine it's the same with Land O 'Lakes. Why would the U.S. government give a company, a butter company,$100 million to spread milk in other countries? I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine. And so it seems like they're shutting USAID down, or at least stopping a lot of these programs.

19:44Do you think that will stop a lot of the government waste? Or what other areas of government waste are you seeing? No, because their top priority is not at home. Their top priority is global influence. I would love to believe, and they would love to believe, that the world can't function without them. So when Congress believes their priorities are global influence, I think it can end up replacing all of Congress. I think we would have to replace all of Congress if that started to happen. And I've noticed a lot of former congressmen end up being executives of NGOs. Yep, sure do. And is that mostly Republicans?

20:28Is it mostly Democrats? Many of them are on USGLC alone. Many of them are former congressmen on USGLC itself right now, both Republicans and Democrats. It's everybody. It's both sides. And maybe companies are paying them as advisors. They're going on USGLC, lobbying USAID about where they fund the money. They all think that we need to influence outside the country so that we can have. And yeah. And so they just ignore what's at home and pay more attention to what's going on outside of our country. For instance, Sesame Street in Iraq. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That one. exactly that. Yep. And how did it get, like, there's one case where Al-Nusra, like a terrorist organization, was funded.

21:21How did that happen? I do not know. I don't know which one you're talking about specifically. Most that I've seen are from donations. From COVID.

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23:29Well, how did you get started doing this? Yeah, it's actually funny because I just started talking to the internet about charities. It was all about charity organizations. Then when I started analyzing the Girl Scouts, you know, I mean, that's a big business. That's a huge organization in the country. They're all over the country and they sell their cookies, right? We all know the Girl Scout cookies. But when I saw a local troop selling cookies on the internet, that's when the change happened. Then the Girl Scout troops stopped financing locally. And now all the money, a lot of the money is from internet sales, but they pay themselves.

24:06The money doesn't go back into the local Girl Scout troops. It just stays within the big corporation and it just gets up. And are they required to send it back to the local Girl Scout troops? They do, but only a teeny tiny bit, just enough to satisfy the requirements. And so are other charities enriching themselves that way? Like, let's say the American Heart Association, as an example. How much actually goes to helping people with heart disease? Yeah, that's why I say always search who is doing the actual work. And you have to do your own research on this, guys. You always have to do your own research.

24:46Like, my site is good, but we need to double check everything. Like, do you see people giving food to the hungry? Do you see people building houses? Like, for example, you know, my friend saw a lot of the North Carolina victims. My friend, he was helping the North Carolina victims from the hurricane. He never saw the Red Cross. He never even saw them. Where were they? And why do you think that is? Like, shouldn't they be there? Yeah, I know. Of course. But that's what they're supposed to do. I've seen people without a home. I've seen homeless people. and then people who have billion dollars. And the homeless never benefit.

25:25So then how did you go from this to government, you know, exposing government waste and fraud? Well, I went to D.C. and I got recruited. And I met with some people there because I have several patents on my work. And I was supposed to give some advice. They wanted the exact award ID. They wanted award IDs. And so I decided to build a system so that I could search for the award IDs. And that just went viral. It went absolutely viral. So on your website, there's a way I can search for award ideas. Why would I do that? Like, what do I learn? You can learn a lot. But the thing is, you have to search for the names, for the specific titles of the awards, for the people who are related.

26:09There's many, many different features on my website you can use. I have like one that you can search of actual names, one that you can search of organizations, ID numbers, things like that. And make sure when you look up something, it's not damning evidence yet. You need to make sure that everyone who uses the website really looks into it and look for the actual information. Like we said earlier, who is actually building the houses or not. Yeah. And are there examples of organizations that are getting money to build houses or provide malaria nets or whatever, and you think there's fraud occurring.

26:50You don't know for sure, but you think that there's fraud occurring. It's really hard to define what fraud actually means. Fraud can be so many things when we're talking about government. I learned that everybody can explain why they're important. Everybody has a reason why they're unexpendable and why we need them. For example, charities will pay top people huge money and say that it's a good thing because they bring in more money, more net dollars anyway. Like you're getting paid because you're making good money. Yeah. So it becomes a cycle. So what other parts of the government do you think there might be huge examples of waste?