"The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." - President Ronald Reagan
Despite Elon Musk and his dedicated DOGE team of cyber-warriors identifying both a scandalous amount of taxpayer money being spent on things that are shocking and disturbing, Congress appears apathetic if not outright antagonistic towards actually doing anything about it.
KY Congressman Thomas Massie was right to oppose the Continuing Resolution instead of trying to pass an actual America First budget, because it reauthorized spending on numerous things that the Trump Administration sought to eliminate after they were brought to light by DOGE. Massie was excoriated by fellow Republicans, and even threatened with being primaried, for showing more wisdom than they apparently possessed because activist judges are now using the CR to halt program cuts and eliminations and employee terminations with the justification that Congress just reauthorized the funding.
The November election was a mandate. Yet it appears to be falling on deaf ears in the swamp. With a Republican President and Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, many Americans hoped to see a landslide of bills cascading on to Trump’s desk to be signed. How many did they send in the first 100+ days? Five. Contrast that with his 152 Executive Orders which can be reversed by a future administration.
In his first 100 days Franklin D. Roosevelt signed 76 bills in to law. Even in Trump’s first term 24 bills quickly made their way to the Resolute Desk. Is it gross incompetence, lack of planning, or something more sinister?
Now Republican members of Congress have taken to social media to promote the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that will be crafted through the reconciliation process in order to bypass a potential Senate filibuster. It contains tax cuts, border security measures, energy policy, and among other things it raises the damn debt ceiling! Yup, you read that right, more debt for our posterity to bear. But what the reconciliation Bill doesn’t seem to do is codify the DOGE cuts.
While I haven’t had enough time to read anything more than a detailed summary, that’s probably more than many in Congress will bother doing before they vote on it. The House Ways and Means Committee has marked up the Bill, with Energy and Commerce finalizing their portions. House Speaker Mike Johnson aims for a floor vote by the end of the month but the fate of the “Big Beautiful Bill’ hinges on GOP unity. Given that 26 Republican senators just voted against codifying DOGE foreign spending cuts, I’m not sure that unity is even possible in our current political climate.
It’s almost as if uniparty grifters are happy hogs feeding at the public trough while they are simultaneously doling out the very grain they are eating through NGOs who prepare their meal away from the prying eyes of public scrutiny. After all, they don’t become millionaires on a public servants’ salary by dumb luck, do they?.
One thing is clear, the majority of American people appreciate the work that DOGE has been doing, and we won’t forget the waste, fraud, abuse and corruption they are exposing, even if our elected representatives fail us. It’s certainly been eye opening for many. And I feel it’s only the tip of a deep iceberg. Stay tuned.
If the red team loses in the mid-term election, as often happens, it will be the fault of our do-nothing GOP controlled Legislature and not Trump or his policies. And if the Democrats take even a one seat majority then nothing even remotely America First will get accomplished in the final two years of Trump’s presidency. This is our one shot, a golden opportunity, and the clock is ticking...