That list gets nowhere close even to accounting for just
reversals. Trump also signed another order expressly reversing 78 different Biden executive orders and memoranda. He canceled the “CBP One” app that allows migrants to apply for asylum with one-touch ordering, fueling tearful coporate media interviews with illegals whose free cell phones stopped working at 12:01pm.
General Milley’s cartoonish military portrait, which looked like it was drawn in crayon by a moderately skilled middle-school student, and was only hung ten days ago, has been removed.
Maybe General Milley will move to China, since he loves it so much.
Apart from “reversing the mistakes from the last four years,” Trump also turned an executive freeze-ray on large swathes of government, including all
foreign aid, all new regulations, all new refugee admissions, and all non-emergency hiring, until his Administration can get its arms around things. I’m not sure anything like that broad, operational suspension of government has ever happened before during peacetime. It will throw a monkey wrench into any resistance.
Not surprisingly, the President issued a raft of orders related to the border, which was one of
two national emergencies Trump declared (the other was on energy).
(Hilariously, hypocritical corporate media placed scare quotes around the word “emergency” yesterday reporting on Trump’s declarations, despite having had no problem using the exact same word without decoration to describe five years of an “emergency” over a mild cold virus.)
Finally, before we get to the good part, another fascinating development is worth noting. In the hours following Trump’s swearing in yesterday, the Senate
was working. It voted to confirm former Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Trump’s Secretary of State, dynamiting the disgraceful Antony Blinken out of the job. Senate committees also advanced Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) and John Ratcliffe (CIA Director).
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Hegseth and Ratcliffe both “are expected to be confirmed.”
If the first broad category of orders related to restoring a level of sanity to the Nation and undoing the woeful excesses of the Biden Regime, then second broad category addressed
draining the Swamp. The draining started with the federal workforce. First, Trump implemented “Schedule F,” an idea that came too late during his first term, which makes it much easier to fire underperforming federal employees.
The President also ordered remote workers back to the office “effective immediately.” The most recent study by Nancy Mace’s office showed an unimaginable 92% of them —nearly all— are still working remotely in pajamas. Federal office buildings will have their lights switched on this morning for the first time
in years.
Imagine the DC traffic this morning. Some of these people have never been to their offices before and aren’t even sure where they are. Surprise!
Behind the headlines and apart from the executive orders, a deep-state massacre has begun to unfold, a government-wide reorganization the New York Times hyperbolically labeled “a Day 1 blood bath.” Pink slips went out to over a thousand political appointees embedded throughout the bureaucracy, including an assistant director here, a handful of managers there,
all four judges on the immigration court, and so on.
Oh — I haven’t seen any order or news about this, but during comments yesterday Trump promised to re-direct the 88,000 new armed IRS agents to help process aliens at the border. He
might have been kidding. He probably
was kidding. But he didn’t
sound like he was kidding. And after all,
Biden reassigned special DHS investigators from child trafficking and fentanyl to the border to make sandwiches for migrants. So, there’s precedent.
Now think about just how much pre-planning and effort all of this swamp-draining represents. We can thank
the Heritage Foundation for this terrific Day One experience. Over the last four years, they’ve laboriously cataloged every federal position that needs to be changed and that can legally be changed. They painstakingly drafted many of Trump’s excellent Day One executive orders.
What we’re witnessing is the ripened fruit of the much-maligned ‘Project 2025’ that we’ve heard so much progressive whining about. Project 2025 was always designed to drain the swamp.
It’s begun. The Swamp has finally started draining. Can you hear it?
Gurgle, gurgle.
But no executive order excited us more than did the pardons of what Trump called “the January 6th hostages.” He didn’t pick those words accidentally.
The first 18 hours of the new Trump Administration might be the most transformative period in U.S. history. But that's only scratching the surface: The drains have been opened.
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