Guest

Walter Curt is an investigative journalist, senior fellow at Restoration of America, and founder of WC Dispatch (wcdispatch.com). His investigative work focuses on government waste, fraud, and abuse, with recent coverage in Restoration News titled "Unbridled Spending: Billions for Medicaid Expansion Congress Never Approved." A former mechanic of 10 years before launching his own investigative platform, Walter combines hands-on data analysis with on-the-ground reporting. Find him on X at @WCDispatch.

Key Topics Covered

• How DOGE's 229-million-row HHS Medicaid dataset blew open the home healthcare fraud story

• The Michigan demolished building that billed $2.4 million in Medicaid claims

• Why blue-state Medicaid expansion drives the highest spending and the fewest prosecutions

• $180 billion spent on home healthcare since 2020 — and why Walter believes most of it is fraud

• The dentist office dissolved in 2004 that bills over a million dollars a year for autism treatment

• Why Vice President JD Vance's $1.5 million prosecution threshold insults every taxpayer

• Why Elon Musk's trillion-dollar DOGE savings target was right all along

• The Oregon Medicaid provider list that has only removed 8 providers in 26 years

• Dr. Oz, CMS, and the fraud task force taking 800 hospice organizations off the books in LA County

• What every taxpayer should be asking their elected officials right now

Timestamped Topic Breakdown

00:18 — Cold open — Jenny Beth introduces Walter Curt and the Medicaid home healthcare story

01:09 — What made Walter start investigating the Medicaid expansion programs

02:00 — Inside the 229-million-row HHS dataset DOGE released — what's actually in it

03:01 — Mapping the data and connecting Medicaid billing codes to providers

05:03 — What Medicaid expansion was supposed to do — and the opposite of what it's doing

07:10 — Michigan: the trifecta takeover, the changed billing codes, and the spending explosion

07:53 — The $2.4 million demolished building that's still billing Medicaid

08:56 — Theft of taxpayer dollars — Jenny Beth and Walter on the bigger picture

10:08 — 21 of 600 Michigan businesses dissolved — $118 million in fraudulent billing

10:58 — JD Vance's $1.5 million prosecution threshold and why it's insulting

14:05 — Medicaid out of your paycheck — and why hundreds of billions in fraud is likely

16:29 — Jenny Beth defends Elon Musk's trillion-dollar DOGE savings target

20:10 — Why DOGE's young engineers ran circles around the Washington bureaucracy

22:16 — Dr. Oz shuts off 800 hospice organizations in LA County — and not one called

23:45 — Why fraud is in every state, every program, and how the turnkey industry works

26:09 — Hospice fraud — corrupting the most precious end-of-life care

28:03 — Autism treatment fraud and the dentist office dissolved in 2004

29:00 — A billion dollars a year on government laundry detergent — and why no one cares

32:29 — How fraud is driving inflation and unaffordability

35:26 — Where Walter is taking the investigation next — Wisconsin, Minnesota, California

40:05 — Oregon removed only 8 providers from the Medicaid list in 26 years

41:37 — What the Trump administration is doing right — CMS, Dr. Oz, JD Vance, RFK Jr.

44:28 — Walter's background — from mechanic to investigative journalist

45:30 — The 8(a) contract pass-through scheme and government racketeering

48:01 — COVID relief fraud, Dodge Hellcat LLC, and the negligence of Washington

51:10 — What should happen to bureaucrats who refuse to do oversight

55:41 — The biggest lie Americans are being told about federal healthcare spending

57:35 — One word for Washington's spending culture: negligence

57:58 — What every taxpayer should ask their elected officials

59:50 — Fraud Watchers — Walter's open-source state-by-state spending project

1:00:58 — Where to find Walter Curt — wcdispatch.com and @WCDispatch

Links & Resources

• Visit Walter Curt at wcdispatch.com

• Follow Walter on X: @WCDispatch

• Read his Restoration News piece: "Unbridled Spending: Billions for Medicaid Expansion Congress Never Approved" at restoration-news.com

• Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

• Learn more about Tea Party Patriots Action at teapartypatriots.org

• Find more episodes at jennybethshow.com

Guests

Hayden Ludwig is the founder of restoration-news.com and host of the Restoration Spotlight Podcast. He is one of the clearest voices in conservative media covering America First foreign policy, election integrity, and the downstream political fights shaping the conservative movement.

Robert McNeely is the Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action. He has covered the Trump coalition from the ground at rallies across the country and now leads broadcast strategy for The Jenny Beth Show.

Key Topics Covered

• Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche indicts Raul Castro for the 1996 murder of four Americans

• Trump's Cuba strategy, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Cuban exile community

• Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky primary after Trump endorsement

• Texas runoff: Ken Paxton vs. John Cornyn and what's at stake for the SAVE America Act

• Senator Ron Johnson calls to end the filibuster

• Louisiana v. Callais — the Supreme Court ruling that could redraw 34 House seats

• Justice Clarence Thomas, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and conservative jurisprudence

• The abortion pill battle at the FDA

• Secretary Pete Hegseth restores service members' right to carry firearms on base

• North Carolina charter schools and the parents' bill of rights

• Mamdani's rent control plan and why socialism always fails

Timestamped Topic Breakdown

00:00 — Cold open and welcome

00:18 — Punchbowl News: Republicans consider postponing reconciliation vote

01:10 — Tea Party Patriots Action and the SAVE America Act fight

01:50 — Raul Castro indicted at the Miami Freedom Tower on Cuban Independence Day

02:55 — Acting AG Todd Blanche clip — the indictment announcement

05:44 — Why this matters: America First foreign policy with teeth

06:41 — Guest introductions: Hayden Ludwig and Robert McNeely

07:36 — Hayden on the timing and meaning of the Castro indictment

09:31 — Robert on the Monroe Doctrine and defending the Western hemisphere

10:32 — Will Cuba ever extradite? Hayden on Trump's options

13:11 — What this means for the Cuban exile community

14:15 — Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky primary

15:18 — Robert: voters want the 2024 mandate enacted

17:01 — Trump endorses Ken Paxton over John Cornyn in Texas

19:53 — Murkowski and Collins call the endorsement dangerous for the party

20:53 — The message to Senate Majority Leader Thune on the SAVE America Act

23:16 — Jenny Beth on what senators don't understand about American voters

26:19 — Call to action: Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121

28:21 — Senator Ron Johnson calls to end the filibuster

31:32 — Hayden on citizen-only voting amendments in 22-25 states

34:08 — Supreme Court ruling: Louisiana v. Callais explained

35:33 — How the 1965 Voting Rights Act created 34 majority-minority seats

37:29 — Justice Clarence Thomas and 60 years of cowardice

40:19 — 2030 census projections and the permanent MAGA majority

42:38 — Democrats spent $200 million on gerrymandering — and lost

44:40 — Lightning round: the abortion pill battle at the FDA

48:43 — Secretary Hegseth restores service members' right to carry on base

50:38 — North Carolina charter schools up 50% — school choice already won

52:02 — Mamdani's rent control plan and why socialism always fails

53:27 — Restoration News and Independence Magazine

55:04 — Final call to action and closing

56:55 — Trump's Coast Guard commencement speech: never surrender

Links

Pass the SAVE America Act: passthesaveamericaact.com

Tea Party Patriots Action: teapartypatriots.org

The Jenny Beth Show: jennybethshow.com

Restoration News: restoration-news.com

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

White House contact: whitehouse.gov/contact

GUEST:

J. Christian Adams — President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a constitutional litigator focused on election integrity, voter roll transparency, and Voting Rights Act enforcement. A former attorney in the Voting Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Adams has argued landmark cases including Petteway v. Galveston County in the Fifth Circuit. He has written for The Washington Times and The Hill on election law, civil rights enforcement, and political violence.

KEY TOPICS:

• The Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais ruling and why it ends race-based redistricting

• The 15th Amendment's 156-year journey to full enforcement

• Public Interest Legal Foundation's new lawsuits against Illinois and California

• Petteway v. Galveston County and the dismantling of racial coalition districts

• How California's racially-saturated congressional map was openly drafted

• Update on the 2024 Philadelphia and Pittsburgh death threat letters to Trump voters

• Why the FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office, and Postal Inspection Service have produced zero arrests

• Voter roll transparency, Hawaii's NVRA defiance, and the cert petition to the Supreme Court

• Why the SAVE America Act is essential to require proof of citizenship to vote

TIMESTAMPS:

00:14 — Cold open and guest introduction

00:51 — The Louisiana v. Callais ruling: a tectonic shift in voting law

03:01 — What it means when the Supreme Court holds a case for second arguments

04:04 — The 15th Amendment: 1870 to 2026

04:48 — How Democrats have weaponized the Voting Rights Act

06:39 — Race, dignity, and the way forward after Callais

07:44 — The left's outrage explained: greed for racial entitlements

09:58 — The narrow remedial step that still allows race in districting

11:29 — Political violence, assassination, and the left's business model

13:30 — Public Interest Legal Foundation sues Illinois

15:00 — Petteway v. Galveston, Texas redistricting, and the coalition district fight

16:34 — How California openly used race to draw congressional districts

19:12 — Why partisan gerrymandering is legal but racial gerrymandering is not

32:34 — Update on the 2024 Philadelphia and Pittsburgh death threats

38:39 — Why federal law enforcement has failed Trump voters

43:19 — Names attached to the bungled investigation

44:36 — $5,000 reward for information on the death threat letters

45:34 — Voter rolls, Hawaii, and the Supreme Court cert petition

47:19 — The SAVE America Act and the proof of citizenship fight

50:17 — Closing and where to learn more

LINKS:

• publicinterestlegal.org

• passthesaveamericaact.com

• teapartypatriots.org

• jennybethshow.com

• Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121