The Trump Administration Sets Its Sights on the Parallel Government

DOGE has begun to have a real effect on the federal budget as the DOJ and Congress mull legal actions.

The Trump administration has started to have a real effect on the size and scope of government, thanks to its focus on wasteful and fraudulent spending doled out to non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The more the administration uncovers, the worse it looks for the institutions of the Swamp — and the better the approval polls look for Trump.
Like turning over a rock to see what creepy-crawlies live under there, the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had all sorts of unintended consequences that revealed the seedy nature of federal funding. Now, between Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Department of Justice, we’ve begun to see real investigations into where our taxpayer money goes. Via the sunlight of laptop-powered financial reconstructions and the weight of future prosecutions, we may very well see permanent changes to the way the federal government operates. (RELATED: Trump Should Shutter USAID — Development Economics Is a Hotbed for Corruption)
In fact, the preliminary budget numbers show that the monthly deficits have unexpectedly fallen.
The course has come into focus: The only way to achieve the original goals of the Tea Party and other historical reform movements is to expose the rot, eliminate the bureaucracies, prosecute those responsible for the fraud, and show American citizens just how badly their confiscated taxpayer funds have been wasted. Only then can the political will build to tear down the bloated federal government and return it to its constitutional restraints. (RELATED: DOGE Confirms That Social Security Is a Fine Mess.)
The Trump administration has found itself on the cusp of a seminal change in the relationship between America’s citizens and their government. This is how Trump has begun to have a real effect on the permanent structure of the federal government.
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