Imagine you had a trillion dollars…

We know wondering that may make us “bad Republicans,” but the question is still worth asking. What does dumping all that money into the military-industrial complex accomplish?

Former State Department official Mike Benz is among America’s most knowledgeable experts on how permanent Washington really works, making him uniquely equipped to tackle this forbidden topic and plenty of others. Click the image below to watch his latest appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show, featuring insights on that, the behemoth NGOs that have more power than you realize, how everything ties back to big corporations, and more. We hope you enjoy.

Mike Benz on the trillion-dollar Pentagon budget:

“It buys votes. It buys votes in Congress. If you want to fire people in the Justice Department, if you want to get people approved by the Senate for their positions, if you want to get rid of the Department of Education, [then] hey, you might need to give [the establishment] a Pentagon bone. It’s a very dirty soup.”