The "experts" are still trying to rewrite the narrative on the government response to COVID, and one of President Trump's picks supports the questionable PRO Act. Meanwhile, VP Vance had strong words for the Orwellian language controls in Germany, and DOGE continues to uncover corrupt and wasteful government spending.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo will discuss all of this and more on this episode of the In The Tank podcast.

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In this clip from the In the Tank Podcast from Feb. 13, The Heartland Institute's Jim Lakely and S.T. Karnick laugh at the legacy media calling everything Trump does a "constitutional crisis" since 2017. And the DOGE project to give taxpayers their first accounting of how their money is wasted in a perpetual graft cycle is hardly a "constitutional crisis."

In fact, the real constitutional crisis is how the unaccountable and un-fireable administrative state — yes, the Deep State — continues to operate outside of any executive control.

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Carefully constructed narratives and funding related to public health are being re-evaluated by this new administration, bringing sunlight to disinfect a contaminated NIH. Critics of President Trump and DOGE claim that Trump's actions represent a Constitutional crisis, Politico finally admits that Democrats were wrong to claim the economy was great under Biden, and RFK's confirmation process continues amid significant pushback.

The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Bonner Cohen, senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, will cover all of this and more on this episode of the In The Tank podcast.
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The Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the status quo continue, causing the right people to worry about their next paychecks. Nations around the world are coming to the negotiation table on subjects no one thought they would, while some very unstable individuals are attempting to incite violence in retaliation against Trump's efforts.

The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment and Unleash Prosperity, as we dig into these subjects, with a special focus on Elon Musk's DOGE and how one simple funding freeze and a little audit is making the entire deep state panic, while waking average Americans up to the true extent of wasteful government spending via groups like USAID.

It’s an understatement to say that Donald Trump hit the ground running to start his interrupted second term. The speed and precision with which he has canceled nearly every achievement of the Biden nothing this country has ever seen before. It is simply breathtaking, and happening at such a frenetic pace it is difficult to keep up.

The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo will do their best, though. Trump has issued hundreds of executive orders on all sorts of policy areas. On immigration, he closed the border, sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across America to round up and deport criminal illegal aliens, and even suggested he’ll use Gitmo to house them until flights back to their country of origin can be arranged. And he also declared that the federal government will no longer put up with “sanctuary” cities and states harboring illegals.

Trump froze all federal grants to assess whether they are worth continuing or canceling because they are wasteful or harmful to America. He demanded the federal workforce actually show up in the office again, or be fired or resign with severance. He’s frozen all foreign aid to determine its wisdom. Trump has allowed America’s energy sector to go full ahead again, and even fired the alarmist scientific advisory board at the EPA. What have we left out? Who can keep up? We will talk about what is nothing less than the most-transformative first 10 days a president has had in American history.

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Elon Musk's DOGE crew continues to shine a light on how our federal government operates, and it is exposing more climate grift than even the most cynical among us could have imagined. The latest involves the EPA giving failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams $2 billion to expand "clean energy by prioritizing housing, equity, and resilience." Her organization, Power Forward Communities, says it will install heat pumps, solar panels, EV chargers, and other "green" technology. Does Abrams have any expertise in this field? No. In fact, her organization incorporated itself with $100 in the bank just months before receiving $2 billion of our tax money. The Washington Free Beacon also reported this week that the man Biden put in charge of the EPA's "Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund" funneled $5 billion to his former employer, something called the Coalition for Green Capital.

The climate grifters are being exposed, and the EPA is trying to claw these billions of dollars back. But how deep does the corruption go? We're bringing in Steve Milloy of the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute, an EPA transition team member in Trump's first term, to get a handle on it. The Heartland Institute's Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including a look at NOAA data showing the second-biggest month-to-month temperature drop since 2009.

The good news for climate realists and better governance in the Trump administration is piling up so fast it is difficult to keep up. As we covered on this show on December 6, a bit of undercover journalism by Project Veritas exposed a left-wing staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency admitting that he and others were trying to get billions of our tax money “out as fast as possible” before the Trump administration arrived in January and put a stop to it. “It truly feels like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge,” laughed Brent Efron, former “special advisor for implementation” at EPA. Well, new EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced this week that he has jumped into his submersible and snatched the gold bars ($20 billion) out of the hands of unaccountable lefty nonprofit “NGOs” and returned them to the treasury. The endless flow of our tax money going to environmental extremists groups who advocate against America’s interest seems to be coming to an end.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely, will also talk about how the Paris Climate Agreement seems to be breaking apart, provide a media “Climate Fact Check” for January, check in on the continuing failure of EVs, show you what a “dying coyote” climate protest looks and sounds like, and more.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro and Vance ripping Greta
7:12 Dying Coyotes Protest
11:58 Paris Climate Agreement Falling Apart
20:21 EV Failure Update
30:32 Climate Fact Check for January
38:43 EPA Trying to Get Gold Bars Back
59:35 Q&A from chat

President Trump has struck the Biden administration’s climate and energy policy like a hurricane – from increasing energy exploration and extraction, to letting 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency know they could be fired at any time, to taking all mentions of climate change from the website of the Department of Agriculture, and more. But what will be the Trump Effect on the global climate agenda? Will the dedication to reorder the economies and societies of the world to “save the planet” being to crumble? And if so, which country will give up first?

President Trump has struck the Biden administration’s climate and energy policy like a hurricane—ranging from increasing energy exploration and extraction to informing 1,000 Environmental Protection Agency employees that they could be fired at any time, to removing all mentions of climate change from the Department of Agriculture’s website, and more. But what will be the "Trump Effect" on the global climate agenda? Will the dedication to reorganizing the world’s economies and societies to “save the planet” begin to crumble? And if so, which country will be the first to give up?

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The historic and devastating fires in Los Angeles exposed the incompetence of leaders such as Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass. So how do state legislators want to address that? By allowing victims who had their lives destroyed sue Big Oil. Of course. The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Gregory Wrightstone of the CO2 Coalition blow holes in that absurd political stunt and also discuss other recent to abuse the courts to push climate alarmism.

Also, Lee Zeldin has just started his first week as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and already the environmental left is terrified that the days of considering human emissions of carbon dioxide are coming to an end. We will dig deeper into the EPA’s “endangerment finding” for CO2 and whether it can be overturned in the next four years. We will also cover some of the “Crazy Climate News of the Week.”

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President Trump wasted no time after his inauguration on Monday reversing all of his predecessor’s executive orders that made climate alarmism and “green” energy the focus of American government. He didn’t just reverse bad policies, and pull us out of the Paris Climate Agreement, he went farther than he did in his first term to ramp up American energy production and rein in an Environmental Protection Agency that regulated far beyond its mandate. Among at least 47 climate- and energy-related EOs signed in the first 24 hours of his swearing-in was one tackling what has long served as the keystone of limitless environmental regulation: the “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide emissions. May we finally see the end of the EPA’s abuse of its regulatory power?

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely are joined by special guest Myron Ebell, who was on President Trump’s EPA Transition Team for his first term, to break down what these reversals of radical climate and energy policy will mean for America and the world. We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week.

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In this clip from the In the Tank Podcast from Feb. 13, The Heartland Institute's Jim Lakely and S.T. Karnick laugh at the legacy media calling everything Trump does a "constitutional crisis" since 2017. And the DOGE project to give taxpayers their first accounting of how their money is wasted in a perpetual graft cycle is hardly a "constitutional crisis."

In fact, the real constitutional crisis is how the unaccountable and un-fireable administrative state — yes, the Deep State — continues to operate outside of any executive control.

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Are wildfires becoming more severe due to climate change? Despite frequent media claims, satellite data from NASA and the European Space Agency show a steady decline in the total area burned by wildfires worldwide. In this quick climate fact check, Linnea highlights how these findings challenge the alarmist narrative, showing that historical trends and real-world data don’t support the claim that climate change is making wildfires worse.

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Are cold snaps getting worse due to climate change? This quick climate fact check examines the polar vortex and the claim that global warming is making it more unstable. The polar vortex is a natural atmospheric pattern observed since 1853, and long-term data from NOAA show that severe cold events have actually decreased over time. Even the UN’s climate panel agrees that extreme cold days are becoming less frequent.

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In this fiery highlight from The Climate Realism Show, U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and CFACT’s Chris Martz dismantle the idea that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. They explain how the misclassification of CO2 as harmful has led to misguided policies that prioritize "feel-good" climate action over real science.

From attributing the wildfires in California to climate change to the impractical push for net zero, they reveal how junk science and political agendas are driving decisions that hurt Americans while failing to deliver measurable results. Get ready for a no-nonsense breakdown of the truth about CO2 and climate policy.

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The Biden Administration spent $267 million taxpayer dollars to combat misinformation online during his presidency. This unprecedented amount largely went towards COVID-19 misinformation, which ultimately ended up being true.

In this clip from December 12, 2024's episode of the In The Tank podcast, Justin Haskins breaks down where the money went, how much previous presidents have spent, and just how insane this figure truly is.

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