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Would it surprise you that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-swamp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top Biden official</a> is accused of doling out cushy, well-paying government jobs and contracts to her liberal friends?
No, probably not, but it is surprising that the Associated Press has temporarily shed its Democrat-Media Complex credentials and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dea-corruption-fentanyl-cocaine-drugs-contracts-milgram-7fd24fe46c4b664f285773798357d418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Department of Justice&#8217;s Inspector General is investigating Anne Milgram, President Joe Biden&#8217;s Drug and Enforcement Agency chief, for allegedly rewarding her cronies with no-bid contracts.
Milgram is the former attorney general of New Jersey and a former law professor. Now, the IG is looking at millions of dollars in taxpayers&#8217; money allegedly given out for &#8220;strategic planning and communication” and other contracts to her friends. According to the AP, the pay for such contracts was given &#8220;at costs far exceeding pay for government officials.&#8221;
“Some of these deals look very swampy,” Scott Amey, general counsel of the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight, told the AP.
Also included in the report is a $1.4 million payment made to the firm WilmerHale for an outside review of DEA foreign operations and how to prevent misconduct and reduce scandals. That review, the AP noted, was widely criticized for not being as thorough as it should have been. Who helped lead that review? Well, none other than former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara&#8217;s right-hand man, Boyd Johnson. Bharara, according to the media outlet, is a close friend of Milgram.
One of the other authors of the study was 87-year-old DEA veteran John Lawn, whose knowledge of foreign practices related mostly to the 1980s. Post-government employment, Lawn was in charge of a beverage industry group that funded an alcohol research study led by Milgram&#8217;s mother.
Adding to the swampiness is the fact that the typical government-bidding process was discarded. The DEA argued that the “threat of illicit foreign drugs to the health and safety of the American public has never been greater&#8221; and required &#8220;urgency &#8221; to complete the review.
Instead, the review took nearly a year and a half to complete when it was supposed to take six months at most.
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One former DEA official, Matthew Donahue, described that review as &#8220;a complete waste of taxpayers’ money.&#8221;  Donahue had led the DEA&#8217;s foreign operations unit but retired after he allegedly &#8220;butted heads&#8221; with Milgram, according to the AP.
“It’s something that could’ve been written in three days,” Donahue said of the finished product from WilmerHale. He also added that he and other key DEA officials and used publicly available information from press reports.
At least one lawmaker is now attempting to hold Milgram and the DEA accountable. According to the AP, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent Johnson a request for records and information regarding his relationship with the DEA chief.
“Though DEA originally billed this report as a ‘comprehensive review’ of DEA’s foreign operations strategy, the report glosses over or ignores serious shortcomings at the agency and spends much of its 49 pages quoting from publicly available documents that one could have pulled off a web site,” Grassley said.
He added that WilmerHale&#8217;s review was &#8220;stunningly vague.&#8221;
There are other potential scandals, too, documented in the AP&#8217;s story.
For many, this will come as no surprise that a federal bureaucrat with connections to New Jersey and New York Democrats might be involved in corruption. It&#8217;s just another day in The Swamp.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Readers might remember ex-GOP Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri. His parting gift to the nation was to completely knee-cap the incoming Republican-controlled House as he voted to approve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-18-republicans-who-just-screwed-over-america-by-supporting-the-mcconnell-schumer-1-7-trillion-spending-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden&#8217;s $1.7 trillion omnibus bill</a> last December.
Well, Blunt is back and is providing all Americans with a perfect case study of how The Swamp works.
After not seeking re-election in 2022, he is now <a href="https://thehill.com/lobbying/3935722-former-sen-roy-blunt-joins-dc-lobbying-firm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joining a lobbying firm</a> connected to his former chief of staff and his own son.  On Wednesday, Husch Blackwell Strategies announced that Blunt joined the team &#8220;where he will launch and lead our new Leadership Strategies Advisory Services.&#8221;
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We are thrilled to welcome U.S. Sen Roy Blunt to HBS where he will launch and lead our new Leadership Strategies Advisory Services w his longtime Senate COS Stacy McBride &amp; Deputy COS Richard Eddings <a href="https://t.co/pYKZ7pWPq5">https://t.co/pYKZ7pWPq5</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/governmentrelations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#governmentrelations</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HBS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HBS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HuschBlackwellStrategies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HuschBlackwellStrategies</a> <a href="https://t.co/T10bICOsP8">pic.twitter.com/T10bICOsP8</a>
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Per The Hill, Blunt will be advising clients and is barred from registering as a lobbyist for two years after leaving Congress. Yet, Blunt told POLITICO that he <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/05/roy-blunt-gop-next-move-00090427" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doesn&#8217;t ever anticipate</a> registering as one even when he becomes eligible to do so. Perhaps that&#8217;s because if he registers as a lobbyist, as opposed to being an &#8220;adviser,&#8221; then he would have to reveal who his clients are.
Blunt, of course, took pride in his bipartisanship and spent his time as a senator under Biden working with Democrats to advance infrastructure spending, codify same-sex marriage, pass the electoral reform act, and more. Conservative base be damned, he was all too eager to link arms with the Democrats on many crucial decisions.
Now, after being in D.C. for decades, he has decided to cash in on that experience and start selling his advice.
“I’ve been giving advice for free for a long time,&#8221; he told POLITICO. &#8220;And generally, people have been willing to take it and it worked out pretty well. The media outlet added that in his new role, &#8220;Blunt will concentrate on offering advice on how to navigate both state and local government.&#8221;
So, if you want to have a long and prosperous career in D.C. it appears to work like this.
You spend your career — especially the last couple of years where you don&#8217;t have to worry about re-election— voting for bills that advance the agenda of The Establishments of the Democratic and Republican Party while managing the slow decline of the nation. During that time, you make the right connections, don&#8217;t rock the boat too much, and then have your former staffers and even your flesh-and-blood prop up a lobbying firm where a cushy job awaits you after retirement.
Then you can stay around The Beltway, enjoy some lunches paid for by the firm, and get paid even more money to block out the conservative base from D.C. decision-making. That is, as some call it, just one aspect of Permanent Washington.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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The Swamp&#8217;s reaction to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jan-6-video-changes-narrative-brings-knives-out-for-tucker-carlson-says-ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News&#8217;s Tucker Carlson</a> airing of less than two hours total of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/history-has-changed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 video footage</a> proves that at best, the powers that be think you are really dumb and cannot handle doing your own research while weighing competing narratives and drawing your own conclusions about world events.
And that is at best. 
At worst, and perhaps far more likely, the entire legacy media and leaders from both political parties are criticizing Carlson because his footage has changed the historic record and disrupted their narrative.
Yet, for the purposes of this column, let us give folks like President Joe Biden and Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) the benefit of the doubt; Let us pretend that they really do care only about protecting democracy and the unvarnished truth. Let us also say that they did not use January 6 to tarnish former President Donald J. Trump and more than 74 million voters with all their might.
Even if that were true, their reaction would still be insulting and belittling to the American people.
As reported, Schumer called for Fox News to silence its eight o&#8217;clock host and called Carlson&#8217;s first segment a &#8220;dangerous, unforgivable attempt to destabilize our democracy and rewrite the history of the worst attack on our constitution since the Civil War.&#8221;
He was not alone. McConnell also took umbrage with the news network for allowing one of its opinion commentators to go against the official government narrative.
&#8220;It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,&#8221; he said. Indeed, the U.S. Capitol Police also slammed Carlson for his coverage.
Biden also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-scolds-republicans-over-tucker-carlson-airing-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weighed</a> in on Wednesday, in part saying, &#8220;How dare anyone diminish or deny the hell they went through? I stand with the Capitol Police.&#8221;
Again, treating these folks in the most Pollyannish way possible, it is evident that they think the common man is too stupid to intelligently watch Carlson&#8217;s reporting, read the official January 6 Committee transcript, and scour the internet to make up their own opinions.
Our elected leaders — and I use that term loosely — in Washington believe that information must first flow through government hands, be packaged in a way that advances The Swamp&#8217;s interests, and then parceled out to approved &#8220;news sources&#8221; — again, using the word &#8220;news&#8221; loosely — where it will be regurgitated as propaganda.
Carlson, obviously, does not fit that bill — which is why they want to stop any more J6 content from getting out to the public — which is all nonsense and patronizing.
As left-wing radio host Jimmy Dore recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNYOJASD1w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> best-selling author Michael Malice on a similar topic,  &#8220;I don&#8217;t need a person in the government or in Silicon Valley to pre-read my news for me and decide if I can read it or not.&#8221;
You don&#8217;t need somebody to pre-read your news for you either. You are more than likely capable of reading many different sources and relying on the facts to ascertain the truth as well.
January 6th isn&#8217;t a one-off news story either. As readers well know, the lapdog media and their Beltway allies have consistently pushed the idea that there is only one accepted way to report on COVID-19 and its vaccine, the war in Ukraine, and other national news stories.
That state-supported singular messaging always seems to make Washington, D.C. stronger. Any journalist — citizen or corporate — who dares think differently is deemed a threat who must be stopped. Any American who entertains that the government is lying, or not being completely forthright, is treated with contempt and derision.
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So, on one hand, The Swamp either thinks you are a gullible rube who must be protected against &#8220;disinformation&#8221; because you are too stupid to know any better; Or, they despise the average American — doubly so if they are a Trump supporter — and push propaganda around the clock while misleading the public for their own purposes.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle — which would mean The Swamp both hates you and thinks you are mindless.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (L) and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) walk towards the House chamber to attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address at a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on February 07, 2023 in Washington, DC. The speech marks Biden’s first address to the new Republican-controlled House.HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 17: Tucker Carlson speaks during 2022 FOX Nation Patriot Awards at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood on November 17, 2022 in Hollywood, Florida.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-nancy-pelosi-will-not-seek-job-as-top-house-democrat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that she will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-republicans-win-majority-in-house-projection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>. This can only mean that the 82 year old is one step closer to retirement.
Good riddance.
Since she was elected into office, America has been ruthlessly gutted of blue-collar jobs, strong borders, and precious life spanning all ages.
This, of course, was not solely her fault. It takes two to tango in Washington, D.C., and her team was aided and abetted by a Republican Party that often seemed to pass Democrat-lite policies.
It was no surprise then that former GOP Speakers of the House John Boehner and Paul Ryan wished Pelosi well as she stepped down from leadership.
&#8220;Congratulations @SpeakerPelosi on a remarkable, historic run of service in the People&#8217;s House,&#8221; Boehner <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerBoehner/status/1593352550828412930?s=20&amp;t=SnPmL48Eh5s0gxqKFx9XIg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> Thursday. &#8220;We were able to disagree without being disagreeable. You&#8217;ve been unfailingly gracious to me and my family.&#8221;
Ryan welcomed her arrival in a special D.C. &#8220;club.&#8221;
&#8220;I tip my cap as I welcome @speakerpelosi to the former speaker’s club and congratulate her on a historic career in the House,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/1593296461172817920?s=20&amp;t=SnPmL48Eh5s0gxqKFx9XIg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
Pelosi, elected in 1987, Boehner, elected in 1990, and Ryan, elected in 1998, were intimately involved in either creating a dismal America riddled with social ailments or allowing it to happen.
In other words, their legacy has consisted of constantly putting Americans last, especially those most vulnerable among us.
For example, since 1987, nearly 40 million babies have been aborted in the womb, <a href="https://nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf">according</a> to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute.
Pelosi has constantly championed a woman&#8217;s so-called right to choose while also claiming that she is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-abortion-pelosi-describes-herself-as-devout-practicing-catholic-jokes-pro-lifers-would-like-to-throw-me-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">devout Catholic</a>.
Her support for the &#8220;right&#8221; to kill children has been so profound that her own bishop has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bishop-who-denied-pelosi-communion-said-biden-brings-about-pain-and-death-elected-leader-of-pro-life-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">barred</a> priests from allowing her to receive the Eucharist — the source and summit of the faith, reserved for those in a state of grace (without mortal sin).
On the spiritual side, her anti-life stance has been a source of confusion and scandal for millions of Catholics, adding to her egregious behavior.
Boehner and Ryan are also Catholic, but evidently thought she was still worthy of praise.
Beyond fatalities in the womb, deaths from drug overdoses — preventable and otherwise — have skyrocketed. &#8220;In 2020, 83,558 people died from preventable drug overdoses – an increase of 649% since 1999,&#8221; <a href="https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/data-details/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%2083%2C558%20people%20died,%2C%20homicide%2C%20and%20undetermined%20intents." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2021, more than 100,000 people <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/202205.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> of a drug overdose. Many of those deaths involved fentanyl.
Similarly, America has lost millions of manufacturing jobs over the past three decades. The nation has <a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/beyond-bls/the-fall-of-employment-in-the-manufacturing-sector.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen</a> 5.5 million of those positions cease to exist since the year 2000.
Except, those jobs didn&#8217;t simply go away. D.C. policies often encouraged companies to create their products in far-off countries. Cheaper products would benefit the American people. In 2016, folks like Ryan were still <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/paul-ryan-free-trade-koch-brothers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arguing</a> that virtually unlimited free trade was a good thing, pushing back against policies he deemed &#8220;protectionist.&#8221;
To her credit, Pelosi spoke out against trade deals with China in the 1990s but was ultimately unable to stop the bleeding.
In the end, the evidence shows that the loss of jobs is partly <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6606896/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responsible</a> for increased drug use since social degradation and loss of purpose lead to finding fulfillment in vices like drugs. In turn, a government <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6606896/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focused</a> on creating as cheap a product as possible with little regard for the country’s social fabric, turns out, is a bad thing.
Now, despite hundreds dying each day, there does not seem to be a concern for the matter stemming from Washington. Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45, yet that was barely mentioned during the midterm campaigns by either party.
Where do those narcotics come from?
According to a <a href="https://trone.house.gov/2022/02/08/cnn-commission-report-fentanyl/#:~:text=Fentanyl%20is%20trafficked%20principally%20by,Postal%20Service%2C%20the%20report%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, the &#8220;dominant&#8221; source of fentanyl in the U.S. is Mexico.
Pounds upon pounds of the deadly substance are stopped by border patrol every year, but the numbers have gone up dramatically under Biden.
All three — Pelosi, Boehner, and Ryan — opposed varying degrees of tighter border security and often worked for some <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/boehner-gop-immigration-plan-not-amnesty-msna261096" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amnesty</a> for illegal immigrants.
That porous border has undoubtedly contributed to the epidemic of drug overdoses, a report from the federal Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking <a href="https://trone.house.gov/2022/02/08/cnn-commission-report-fentanyl/#:~:text=Fentanyl%20is%20trafficked%20principally%20by,Postal%20Service%2C%20the%20report%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a>.
On that note, according to a 2018 Yale study, as many as 29 million illegal aliens have <a href="https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entered</a> the country since 1987. Our sovereignty has taken a dramatic hit since the 1986 amnesty bill heralded by then-Congressman Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
In recent years, Biden&#8217;s policies, supported by Pelosi, have created a tsunami of illegal immigration.
Again, how is that worthy of praise from former GOP elected officials like Boehner and Ryan?
Through it all, federal spending has also <a href="https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/federal-spending-per-person-is-skyrocketing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soared</a>, as has the size of government, yet when real conservative opposition formed in reaction to that reality — The Tea Party — Boehner, Ryan, and Pelosi threw them under the bus.
In 2021, Boehner <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/open/2021/04/john-boehners-political-memoir-disses-trump-and-tea-party-but-avoids-ohio-controversies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in his memoir, &#8220;What Nancy Pelosi and other sane Democrats — the ones who’ve been around long enough to know how things work — are dealing with from AOC and her Squad reminds me a lot of what I had to deal with during my days as Speaker from the far-right kooks of the Tea Party or the Freedom Caucus or whatever they were calling themselves.&#8221;
The Tea Party and Freedom Caucus simply wanted a government that stayed within its budget, returned power back to the states, defunded Planned Parenthood, and secured the border among other things that Republicans such as Boehner and Ryan had been promising to do for years.
To put into context how unbelievable Boehner’s remark is, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus — which would mean that Boehner thinks of him as a &#8220;kook&#8221; as well.
The trio&#8217;s gripes with former President Donald Trump are well known, yet none of them seem to realize that their failure on matters discussed in this column can explain his rise and why Americans flocked to him.
Boehner resigned as speaker in 2015 after his apparent life goal of getting the pope to speak before Congress was accomplished. There was <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/john-boehner-resigned-after-the-popes-visit-there-was-nothing-left-for-the-house-speaker-to-achieve.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nothing</a> left for him to do, he has implied numerous times. A pope speaking before Congress is nice, but it doesn’t really do anything for the American people.
Ryan decided against seeking re-election during the Trump administration and slinked away for a few years only to return in recent months to castigate Trump. Ryan is still arguing that Republicans <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-plan-to-save-americas-finances-fiscal-monetary-policy-debt-deficits-social-contract-midterm-election-healthcare-11668638378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">need</a> to focus mostly on economic issues and the threat of government in order to win big.
He says this despite social issue victories in states like Virginia and Florida. Trump’s policies, which Ryan has warned against, grew the party in ways Ryan only dreamed of. Now DeSantis and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) are expanding on Trumpism.
Yet oddly enough, Boehner and Ryan have kinder words for Pelosi than they ever have had for Trump or the Tea Party.
Sure, she held her left-wing socialists at bay in recent years, but Pelosi also enriched herself with all-too-timely stock trades that have raised eyebrows.
Americans, meanwhile, have suffered under the Swamp as multiple generations of politicians from both parties have focused on all the wrong problems as they silence any true grassroots movements to shake up the system.
She scored wins for the Democratic Party, but those don&#8217;t translate into victories for the voters.
Why the praise, unless your worldview aligns more with the Democrats than the conservative base?
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Pelosi And The Swamp: Millions Of Babies Killed, Record Overdoses, Job Loss, And Open Borders

Pelosi And The Swamp: Millions Of Babies Killed, Record Overdoses, And Open Borders

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John Boehner

Nancy Pelosi