Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
Democrats call it a “Constitutional Crisis.”
I’d call it more of an “Adventure.”
Look, you know as well as I that modern presidents have always used executive orders to bend the government how they want. Barack Obama’s famous line — “I have a pen and a phone” — sparked no freak out by the Democratic Party. But now that it’s Donald Trump doing the bending, they’re chirping “crisis, crisis, crisis” like birds in a mango tree.
Besides the shoe-on-the-other-foot dynamic, there are legit questions. Can a congressionally funded program cease or be fundamentally changed by the president?
If Congress, say, allocates $50 billion for USAID, does the Administration have to spend all of that? Can an administration that doesn’t like what the government entity does essentially shut it down by firing most of the staff and spending substantially less?
Same questions times 10 for the Department of Education. President Donald Trump wants that piece of government shut down. Can he do that unilaterally?
Consider what’s happening at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This office was created in 2011 by President Obama at the behest of socialist-now-senator Elizabeth Warren. The CFPB is supposed to be watchdog of banks and lenders.
Anyway, President Trump fired CFPB’s director and on Saturday, Feb. 8, the 1,700 workers at CFBP were told to stop doing what they do. Doors to the CFPB were closed the following week.
DOGE is now doing a colonoscopy on CFPB. It’s fate remains undecided as of this writing.
The point this morning is how far can Trump and Elon Musk go? At the risk of once again demonstrating my superpower — firmly grasping the obvious — this review of government function looking for the proverbial “fraud, waste and abuse,” is bound to end up at the Supreme Court.
As for me, I’m rooting for Trump and Musk at this point.
They’ve found more wasteful spending in four weeks than has been found in 30 years.
MILL VALLEY DEI
This note from the City of Mill Valley: “The City of Mill Valley knows that immigration enforcement is a sensitive topic for many people in our community. We want to make it clear that we are committed to keeping everyone safe and healthy, no matter their immigration status.”
So, if an illegal immigrant wanted for rape in his home town lives in Mill Valley, the town’s moms and dads are OK with that?
Read the full column here.
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