President Trump is shrinking the size and scope of the federal government. You might have missed that little news item amid anti-Trump conservatives’ breathless reporting of each and every non-troversy the mainstream media manages to gin up. But unlike President George W. Bush, President George H.W. Bush, and even the Gipper himself, Trump in just his first year has cut Health and Human Services by 0.5%, Defense by 1.1%, Transportation by 1.4%, Justice by 1.5%, Energy by 2.3%, Commerce by 3.1%, Housing and Urban Development by 3.3%, State by 3.8%, Labor by 4.6% Education by 4.8%, and Treasury by a whopping 7.5%.
Nevertheless, anti-Trump conservatives continue to wring their hands and fret, “Sure, Trump advances the conservative political agenda in reality—but can he do it in theory?” Uncouth tweets and beltway obsessions trump good governance to the insular and parasitic political class. For ease of comparison, I’ve compiled a list of the most prominent Trump administration “scandals” that have kept frivolous analysts across the political spectrum in hysterics since election night 2016.
To begin, Democrats at each level from the grassroots to former future president Hillary Clinton herself have accused Donald Trump of colluding with Russia since November 2016. Putting aside ever-changing definitions of the nebulous term “collusion,” fourteen months have passed with no evidence that Donald Trump is secretly a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Democrat senator and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee Dianne Feintsein has admitted as much, and leading Democrat activist Van Jones has called the Russia collusion narrative a “nothing-burger.”
Donald Trump Is Shrinking The Government. Everything Else Is Noise.
Keep calm, and fire bureaucrats.
Nevertheless, anti-Trump conservatives continue to wring their hands and fret, “Sure, Trump advances the conservative political agenda in reality—but can he do it in theory?” Uncouth tweets and beltway obsessions trump good governance to the insular and parasitic political class. For ease of comparison, I’ve compiled a list of the most prominent Trump administration “scandals” that have kept frivolous analysts across the political spectrum in hysterics since election night 2016.
To begin, Democrats at each level from the grassroots to former future president Hillary Clinton herself have accused Donald Trump of colluding with Russia since November 2016. Putting aside ever-changing definitions of the nebulous term “collusion,” fourteen months have passed with no evidence that Donald Trump is secretly a puppet of Vladimir Putin. Democrat senator and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee Dianne Feintsein has admitted as much, and leading Democrat activist Van Jones has called the Russia collusion narrative a “nothing-burger.”
Donald Trump Is Shrinking The Government. Everything Else Is Noise.
Keep calm, and fire bureaucrats.
