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While the Biden Administration and House Republicans make the rounds congratulating themselves for reaching a debt ceiling agreement, the debt moving forward was arguably not addressed satisfactorily. General Blain Holt talks with LTC Tony Shaffer about the massive government spending, how Washington constantly gets away with increasing the debt, excuses for throwing money around, and how these habits, if not quelled, will result in devastating consequences in the years and decades to come.
Tony also offers his take on government waste and the continued border and immigration mess to which the Biden Administration’s policies have led.
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Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt is the Deputy United States Military Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He supports the Military Representative and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in executing the U.S. political-military mission at the North Atlantic Council.
General Holt graduated from the University of Georgia in 1988. There he was commissioned and designated a distinguished graduate of the University of Georgia’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. The general’s command experience includes the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing, Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyz Republic, and the 16th Airlift and 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadrons. General Holt’s combat leadership in Kyrgyzstan during multiple crises, including a coup d’état and ethnic violence, was deemed “essential” by the Commander, U.S. Central Command. Key assignments include a previous posting as the Director of Logistics, United States European Command, a Military Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, New York, and Director of the Air Force Secretary and Chief of Staff’s Executive Action Group.
The general is a command pilot with more than 3,900 flying hours in a variety of aircraft. His dissertation, written and defended in Dutch, was awarded a “with distinction” honor at the Royal Superior College of Defense in Brussels. He has published a variety of papers across a range of national security issues and is a life member of the Wings Club and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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