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October 16, 2025 4 mins
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You’re paying for it — and they’re laughing all the way to the NGO bank. In this episode:
  • The Democrats’ latest “shutdown” scare tactic and what’s really in the bill they’re fighting for
  • Millions for climate resilience in Honduras, LGBTQI+ democracy in the Balkans, and even locust reduction in Africa
  • How these “grants” are really just money laundering operations for DC nonprofits
  • Why Washington has become a bloated grift factory, not a government
  • And why Chris says the capital today looks more like the Hunger Games’ Capitol City than the seat of a functioning republic
Follow the money — because every dollar “for democracy” overseas somehow ends up keeping the swamp fat and happy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh, got more congressional money laundering by the donkeys, that's right?
Oh you know again mainstream media. Yeah, yeah, those Republicans
are evil. They're shutting down the government because they want
to raise everyone's health insurance costs, because they want to
subsidize it anymore. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson actually

(00:36):
came out and listed some other things that the donkeys
want to fund. Yeah, all of these things were taken out.
We're taken out. It was little tiny, Okay, the big
beautiful bill cuts some stuff, didn't cut much, didn't cut much.
And basically what the donkeys want to do is put
all of their crap back in. Now let me let

(00:59):
me give you some of the things that they're looking
to fund. Again. This is why the whatever reason why
the our armed forces are not going to get a
paycheck is because the Democrats want twenty four point six
million dollars to climate resilience in Honduras, thirteen point four

(01:21):
million to civic engagement in Zimbabwe, three point nine million
to LGBTQI, and they got they added a letter it's
LGBTQ I now well lg LGBTQI plus democracy grants in

(01:45):
the Balkans, two point nine million to Desert Locusts Reduction
in Africa, two million to Organizing for Feminist Democratic Principles
in Africa. You realize this is all money laundering, right,

(02:07):
You do realize he's just going to go to some
NNGO in Washington, d C that says that they're doing
these things. It's just going to keep liberals in their jobs.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Again, I I don't I avoid Washington, d C at
all costs. I can't go there. It's it's a bad place.
It's a bad place. There's just there's no doubt about it.
That's you know, most of the people that work there,
they work in jobs like this that serve no purpose,

(02:43):
that are just stealing from the American people. And again
it's it's one big grifting operations what it is. Yeah,
it's you know, you think about it, it's kind of
like you know, Capital City in the Hunger Games, except
not as nice. That's that's what you got there, say nobody. No,

(03:04):
how many people want to live in Washington, DC. Outside
of a few neighborhoods, are all living, you know, right
outside on the outskirts, everything like that, getting fat and
happy on your dollars, not building or creating anything, maybe
working a couple hours a day. This this is Washington people.
You think I look at I mean anymore, I don't.

(03:25):
I know, they got backdrops ours Washington, and they got
the Capitol building in the back, and I look at
that with any pride whatsoever. No, I know what's going
on around there. Okay, that's part of the show, Okay,
to make make make you feel like that there's something
actually good happening. I mean, I'm sure, yep, there's some

(03:47):
good things happening. But let's be honest here, Okay, let's
be honest. Forty Second Street in the nineteen seventies in
New York City was more is more legit than Washington
DC today? Change my mind, watchdog on Wallstreet dot com.
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