Trump’s own worst enemy: President’s rush to reform threatens his agenda
How is this acceptable?
Any honest accounting of the Trump presidency from a conservative perspective will necessarily be mixed and a study in paradox. One of the greatest paradoxes of the current administration is that, in its rush to enact President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda as quickly as possible, it risks derailing it.
Two examples come to mind. The first is the president’s Department of Government Efficiency experiment. The concept was simple, and music to a conservative’s ears: Reduce the actual size of government by cutting out the superfluous bits. Elon Musk was assigned the task and proceeded with a chainsaw (literally and figuratively). Many examples of truly absurd government spending were identified, but the slapdash and theatrical manner also led to several embarrassments, such as the firing of some 350 employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was reversed the very next day as someone realized that nuclear security might be essential even under a libertarian assessment of government’s role.
Ultimately, the haphazard approach lost public support, fizzled out, and set back the pursuit of that honorable goal at least a generation. Watch any attempt at responsible entitlement reform be tainted with the epithet of “DOGE” for years to come.
WHAT DID DOGE ACCOMPLISH?
The second example stems from another worthy endeavor: dismantling the obsession with social engineering, which is often couched in such terms as “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Among the most beneficial policies enacted by the Trump administration has been the reversal of these ideological instruments at the federal level.
Consider, for instance, the Biden-era grant to the Climate Justice Alliance. In March last year, the EPA under Trump canceled a $50 million annual grant to this left-wing group whose own website states, I kid you not, that “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.” Millions of federal taxpayer dollars had been flowing into a radical activist organization whose only concern with the environment was making sure it was conducive to supporting Palestinian terrorist activities in the Middle East. Expunging this grant was a proper reform.
But, as with DOGE, reckless application risks obscuring priorities.
The administration recently set its anti-DEI sights on the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program, created in 1978 to assist small businesses owned by disadvantaged people, mainly by fast-tracking …
How is this acceptable?
Any honest accounting of the Trump presidency from a conservative perspective will necessarily be mixed and a study in paradox. One of the greatest paradoxes of the current administration is that, in its rush to enact President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda as quickly as possible, it risks derailing it.
Two examples come to mind. The first is the president’s Department of Government Efficiency experiment. The concept was simple, and music to a conservative’s ears: Reduce the actual size of government by cutting out the superfluous bits. Elon Musk was assigned the task and proceeded with a chainsaw (literally and figuratively). Many examples of truly absurd government spending were identified, but the slapdash and theatrical manner also led to several embarrassments, such as the firing of some 350 employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was reversed the very next day as someone realized that nuclear security might be essential even under a libertarian assessment of government’s role.
Ultimately, the haphazard approach lost public support, fizzled out, and set back the pursuit of that honorable goal at least a generation. Watch any attempt at responsible entitlement reform be tainted with the epithet of “DOGE” for years to come.
WHAT DID DOGE ACCOMPLISH?
The second example stems from another worthy endeavor: dismantling the obsession with social engineering, which is often couched in such terms as “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Among the most beneficial policies enacted by the Trump administration has been the reversal of these ideological instruments at the federal level.
Consider, for instance, the Biden-era grant to the Climate Justice Alliance. In March last year, the EPA under Trump canceled a $50 million annual grant to this left-wing group whose own website states, I kid you not, that “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.” Millions of federal taxpayer dollars had been flowing into a radical activist organization whose only concern with the environment was making sure it was conducive to supporting Palestinian terrorist activities in the Middle East. Expunging this grant was a proper reform.
But, as with DOGE, reckless application risks obscuring priorities.
The administration recently set its anti-DEI sights on the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program, created in 1978 to assist small businesses owned by disadvantaged people, mainly by fast-tracking …
Trump’s own worst enemy: President’s rush to reform threatens his agenda
How is this acceptable?
Any honest accounting of the Trump presidency from a conservative perspective will necessarily be mixed and a study in paradox. One of the greatest paradoxes of the current administration is that, in its rush to enact President Donald Trump’s ambitious agenda as quickly as possible, it risks derailing it.
Two examples come to mind. The first is the president’s Department of Government Efficiency experiment. The concept was simple, and music to a conservative’s ears: Reduce the actual size of government by cutting out the superfluous bits. Elon Musk was assigned the task and proceeded with a chainsaw (literally and figuratively). Many examples of truly absurd government spending were identified, but the slapdash and theatrical manner also led to several embarrassments, such as the firing of some 350 employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was reversed the very next day as someone realized that nuclear security might be essential even under a libertarian assessment of government’s role.
Ultimately, the haphazard approach lost public support, fizzled out, and set back the pursuit of that honorable goal at least a generation. Watch any attempt at responsible entitlement reform be tainted with the epithet of “DOGE” for years to come.
WHAT DID DOGE ACCOMPLISH?
The second example stems from another worthy endeavor: dismantling the obsession with social engineering, which is often couched in such terms as “social justice” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Among the most beneficial policies enacted by the Trump administration has been the reversal of these ideological instruments at the federal level.
Consider, for instance, the Biden-era grant to the Climate Justice Alliance. In March last year, the EPA under Trump canceled a $50 million annual grant to this left-wing group whose own website states, I kid you not, that “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.” Millions of federal taxpayer dollars had been flowing into a radical activist organization whose only concern with the environment was making sure it was conducive to supporting Palestinian terrorist activities in the Middle East. Expunging this grant was a proper reform.
But, as with DOGE, reckless application risks obscuring priorities.
The administration recently set its anti-DEI sights on the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program, created in 1978 to assist small businesses owned by disadvantaged people, mainly by fast-tracking …
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