A tsunami is a gigantic tidal wave that you know is coming but are powerless to stop or alleviate. The best you can do is gird your loins and run for the hills. That is the position in which Democrats find themselves these days as the Trump executive tsunami consumes everything in its wake. The Dems are huddled together in the disintegrating shelter of the DC Swamp, decrying the inevitable but realizing they will get swept away and that the damage to their way of life will be incalculable. It is something to behold.
The volume of measures imposed by Donald Trump is so numerous that it will likely be incomplete by the time you read this because the president is ordering systemic reforms every day of his nascent second term. But let’s take a breath and attempt to recap the full scope of his first three-and-a-half historic weeks in the Oval Office. In sum, his actions represent arguably the most sweeping reforms since the New Deal or even the post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Catching Our Breath
Where to begin? Well, following the president’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, illegal crossings there have dropped by some 90%. Thousands of illegal aliens, most with criminal records, have been rounded up and deported by Border Czar Tom Homan, with the number reportedly expected to reach 25,000 in Trump’s first month in office. The president also ordered the construction of a facility in Guantanamo Bay, used to imprison terror suspects following 9/11, to hold up to 30,000 illegal immigrants who will not be returned to their native lands. He also greatly expanded the scope of enforcement by signing into law the Laken Riley Act, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal aliens arrested for theft and related offenses.
The 47th president has done everything in his power to reverse the cultural trends of the George Floyd/Joe Biden era. He ordered the dismantling of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs throughout the federal government and dismissed all DEI-related personnel. He has issued an edict requiring federal agencies to withhold funding to facilities that perform transgender surgeries for those under 19 years old. And he ordered an end to government funding for schools that permit people classified as men at birth to compete in women’s sports.
Emptying the Swamp
Pursuant to his decade-long promise to “Drain the Swamp,” the president offered buyouts to hundreds of thousands of federal bureaucrats, roughly 75,000 of whom have accepted. Many others will be subject to the president’s reinstitution of Schedule F, stripping ironclad protections from untold numbers of federal employees. He has removed several members of the board at Washington’s famed Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which he has attacked for holding “drag shows specifically targeting our youth,” and named himself Chairman. And he has reinstated some 8,000 members of the military who were fired or quit because they refused Biden’s order to take the COVID-19 vaccine. […]
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