Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official, joins DC EKG

Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official, joins DC EKG

Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official, joins DC EKG

CZ and the guys wrap up their talk and bring us to the current day. He now grapples with his current disability by focusing his efforts on preserving the hope and innovation that benefited him… and millions more. He sees real threats to the pipeline of breakthroughs as a result of 40 years of bipartisan public policy that unleashed 40 years of medical miracles. All that changed under “the cover of Covid” with health provisions tucked into the IRA law passed on a party line vote in 2022. Today with Survivors for Solutions he is giving voice to the forgotten stakeholders: patients. Lost in the shuffle of special interests are patient voices downstream of this policy fight; a fight that is personal for CZ.

CZ continues his discussion on DCEKG with sharing how having the hope of a breakthrough drug rescued him from a life cut short; how his MS issued a near-knockout blow, sending him to live stuck in his parents’ Long Island basement, dependent, and unproductive. Hope arrives in the form another innovative drug. Soon after he begins his second DMT, he goes from single, wheelchair bound, and alone, to married, with four kids, and career Forest Gump would find implausible. He credits the science and having multiple treatment options or holding back his MS, for what turned out to be relief from disease progression for almost 20 years. Shortly after leaving Capitol Hill, he spent ten years at Verizon followed by a move to his wife’s family’s home state of Minnesota. Until CZ and his family return from self-imposed exile after the new president’s team calls seeking help with confirming three of cabinet nominees. A brief volunteer gig turns into tours of service at the OMB, CFPB, and the West Wing; with his MS riding shotgun the whole time. When the inevitable happens and he can no longer work, he takes on a new cause and founded a nonprofit patient advocacy group, called Survivors for Solutions.

Veteran of high-stakes DC public policy and communications, co-creator of this podcast, and a good, long time friend of both Eric and Joe, John “CZ” Czwartacki maps his career with how his 30 year battle with multiple sclerosis began. Long in public service, CZ has never discussed his MS publicly… until now. This program reviews the early part of his career - Kemp, Boehner, Paxon, Dole-Kemp, and Lott - and how his diagnosis of an incurable disease, and his battle with it, played out. More from this conversation will be released next week.

Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official, joins DC EKG

Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official, joins DC EKG

Tevi Troy, best-selling presidential historian and a former senior government official, joins DC EKG

Joe and Eric continue their discussion with Tyler Goodspeed and explore disruptions that come from inflation. Tyler reveals that the best indicator of how the economy is doing in high and medium inflation environments is the consumer, better than government economists and academics. Tyler explains how the US dollar is the world's reserve currency and is not under threat by China, or any other entity at this time. But he does say that he could see other central banks diversifying into more than US Treasuries.