It's Testimony Tuesday and the corruption is on full display. Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine are on the Hill asking Congress for $1.5 trillion more for the Pentagon — a Christmas tree budget designed to bankroll the unauthorized Iran war and whatever comes next, whether that's Venezuela, Greenland, Mexico, or Cuba. Buried in the same hearing: the Pentagon's own CFO admitting the Iran tab is now $29 billion and counting, $4 billion more than Americans were told. Gas is up, beef is up, tomatoes are up 40%, inflation just hit a five-year high, and 70% of the country disapproves of Trump on the economy. The pigs are at the trough and the rest of us are getting screwed.
Paul breaks down why the December defense vote is the real fight, why Hegseth's open defiance of Congress on Ukraine aid is impeachment-grade, and why FBI Director Crash Patel spending his testimony defending his sobriety is not a sign of a healthy republic. He hits the Mitch McConnell mid-hearing meltdown — fitness, not age, is the metric — calls out Kari Lake being shipped to Jamaica, flags Dan Osborn pulling ahead of Pete Ricketts in Nebraska, and closes with the people stepping up to be the vaccine: nurses on International Nurses Day, Ukrainian medics under shellfire, and the new Astronauts for America. Righteous anger, patriotic hope, no BS.
In this episode
- Hegseth and Chairman Caine ask Congress for $1.5 trillion more — the Pentagon's blank check for forever war
- The number nobody reported: Pentagon CFO admits the Iran war tab is now $29 billion, not $25 billion
- Why the real fight is the December defense vote — and which senators have the spine to vote no
- CEOs at the trough: Tim Cook, Larry Fink, Elon Musk and the China delegation cashing in while you pay more for beef
- Crash Patel's FBI testimony devolves into a sobriety defense — and what it says about national security
- 'Glitch McConnell': why fitness, not age, has to be the standard for serving in the Senate (Fetterman included)
- Hegseth openly defies Congress on $400M in Ukraine aid — Paul calls it impeachment-grade
- Trump floats Venezuela as the 51st state, ships Kari Lake to Jamaica, and keeps falling asleep in public
- Dan Osborn pulls ahead of Pete Ricketts 47-42 in Nebraska — the independent surge is real
- International Nurses Day, Ukrainian medics under fire, and Astronauts for America: who's stepping up to be the vaccine
