“We’re borrowing money from China to pay Chinese entities—that doesn’t make any sense,” says Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com.
Through tens of thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests, this government watchdog has compiled and made public almost all U.S. money taxed and spent, at every level of government, across all 50 states.
We discuss shocking payments to China and Russia, the problem of earmarks—what Mr. Andrzejewski calls Congress’s “currency of corruption, and the militarization of our federal agencies.
“There are 76 traditional, paper-pushing, regulatory, civil administrative agencies that have now armed up,” says Mr. Andrzejewski. “Who knew that the National Institutes of Health had a police force of over 100 officers?”
