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Articles / Government / White House Trump’s art of the deal is now becoming the art of the clawback Gone are the days of leaving the past behind and moving on. “Clawing back” is the new Republican Party aesthetic and President Donald Trump is leading the charge, trying to claw back not just taxpayer money, but also culture and justice. By: The new target of the Democrats’ ire is Elon Musk, who is replacing, for the time-being, their obsessive hatred for Donald Trump. In their promise to oppose Donald Trump every step of the way, liberals across the country have found themselves in the uncomfortable position of opposing the popular initiative exacted by DOGE — rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, even going so far as suggesting a “street fight” is necessary. The latest clawback iteration lies within the working (and lodging) walls of DOGE. Elon Musk, who is heading up the department’s efforts and frequently sleeps on the floor is now launching an initiative to cut taxpayers a dividend check floated straight out of money saved by his team’s efforts.  The goal for Musk and his team of waste-finders is $2 trillion. The working breakdown is to allot 80% to reduce the deficit, 20% to service the debt and 20% to the taxpayers. With $400 billion dispersed among roughly 79 million taxpayers, that equates to a little over $5,000 per taxpaying household. They even set up a website for taxpayers to explore and learn more about the plan.  Where does the money come from? So far, DOGE has announced roughly $55 billion in cuts and posted to the social media platform X some of the already-cancelled programs, including $40 million for “gender equality and women empowerment hub,” $29 million to “strengthening political landscape in Bangladesh,” $20 million for “fiscal federalism” in Nepal, $19 million for “biodiversity conversation” in Nepal and about a dozen other items.   Skepticism in media Some news outlets have reported that the DOGE team’s “wall of receipts” shows errors in tallying billions in savings. Axios published a story casting doubt on the actual savings made by DOGE, saying DOGE claims that its “total estimated savings” to date are roughly $55 billion. But there are questions about whether that sum is inflated. Bloomberg said the website lists $16.6 billion in savings.”  While it may take quite some time for the actual savings to be tallied up, the key will be in Congress codifying these efforts. The House Oversight Committee’s Subcommitee Chairwoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Green (R-Ga.) told Just The News that “the amount of fraud and waste DOGE is exposing is unbelievable. Taxpayer money should only be spent to help Americans and I’m glad money is being returned. But Congress has to do our job. During the reconciliation process, we can put restrictions on funding to ensure that money is only spent where it’s supposed to be spent. That’s what my DOGE subcommittee is all about.” Clawing back culture Clawing back culture is a multi-tiered process. At the top of that list: removing DEI. Donald Trump has been trying to ensure that Democrat-pushed aspects like diversity, equity and inclusion are replaced with merit in his January 22 Executive Order.  Additionally, White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller said that “this includes making clear to every educational institution in this country that ending diversity, equity, and inclusion, ending unlawful race discrimination is a precondition of receiving federal funds.” Educational institutions must now choose between pushing DEI in schools and in hiring practices or receiving aid from the federal government.   Another important aspect of bringing American values back to culture is restoring our history – the good, the bad and the ugly – and learning from it. During the summer of 2020’s George Floyd riots, many historical monuments across this country were torn down. Important symbols of our history like statues of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in Portland, Oregon and President Theodore Roosevelt in New York City, were either destroyed by rioters or taken down by local municipalities in the aftermath.  In an effort to restore the history and remembrance of American figures, at the February 6 National Prayer Breakfast, Trump announced his reinstated plans to construct the National Garden of American Heroes.  “I have signed an Executive Order to resume the process of creating a new national park full of statues of the greatest Americans who ever lived. We’re going to be honoring our heroes, honoring the greatest people from our country. We’re not gonna be tearing down, we’re gonna be building up,” he said. The memorial park concept was synthesized during the violent protests that brought down the likenesses of hundreds of American figures, all flawed, but all important to this country. Some of the figures to be included in the National Garden of American Heroes include John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Douglas MacArthur, James Madison, George S. Patton, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Betsy Ross, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington. Clawing back justice  In the justice arena, it is a given that transparency for the American people must prevail. With Kash Patel confirmed Thursday as the new Director of the FBI, the investigative relationship between Congress and that agency should — it is hoped — run smoothly. Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., is one House investigator who will be continuing his quest to uncover the full scope of the crimes attributed to the Biden family and their associates.  In a recent interview on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show, he said that it will be up to the new DOJ to carry it through to a conclusion, explaining that “at the end of the day, the Department of Justice is going to have to do that. Hopefully, [Attorney General] Pam Bondi is willing, which I hope she will be. Then I can assure you the House Oversight Committee, and I hate to speak for Jim Jordan, but I’ll go on

Articles / Government / White House Velocity of early Trump action far surpasses the Gipper’s, Reagan biographer says Presidential historian Craig Shirley believes that no matter who is chronicling his time in office, historians will have to say that President Donald Trump is a consequential president. By: President Donald Trump has taken Washington by storm at the start of his second term, far surpassing the velocity of another Republican president who prided himself on speedy results, according to Ronald Reagan’s biographer. Trump’s first 30 days blow those of Reagan’s first and second terms in 1980 and 1984 out of the water “in a nice way, but times have changed,” says presidential historian Craig Shirley, who wrote one of the authoritative biographies on the 40th president. Trump also is outpacing Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a president who set the standard for the first 100 days with his New Deal agenda, he added. The 47th president is “moving faster and better, but he’s handling a different set of issues,” Shirley told Just the News. “The border was not an issue for FDR or for Ronald Reagan; the border is the number one issue and polls show it with the American people.” “He’s got to deal with inflation that Reagan had to deal with and he’s got to deal with economic malaise from the Great Depression that FDR had to deal with,” he added. Former Deputy National Security Adviser Victoria Coates agreed. “I think we all have the sense that we’re experiencing the second Trump term in dog years. He seems to be pretty determined to pack seven years of stuff in every year,” she quipped in an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday. Coates noted that foreign policy achievements often take presidents some time to assemble but that Trump has begun his second term with an unexpected flurry: a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, a thawing of icy Russia relations and a pathway to a Ukraine peace deal to name a few. “He’s got NATO suddenly pledging to get to 3.5% within three weeks of inauguration. He’s got the Russia-Ukraine talks started, he has completely changed the conversation on Israel and Gaza and Hamas. He’s the only person who’s put a plan on the table for that,” she noted Coates said Trump’s quick progress on Russia —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced formal negotiating teams for a peace deal — stands in stark contrast to France’s Emmanuel Macron who spent three years negotiating but yielded no measurable progress. Shirley said Trump’s blazing speeds can be attributed to three dynamics: 1) the dire situation the country and the world faces demanded immediate action; 2) the force of Trump’s personality; and 3) the accessibility of television, internet, podcasts, emails…coupled with the hyper speed with which information now travels. The concept of the “first 100 days” agenda began under FDR when he instituted the New Deal to tackle a crushing economy. Pushing 15 major bills through Congress, he addressed the most pressing issues of banking, manufacturing, agriculture and social welfare. By his 100th day in office, Roosevelt had signed 99 executive orders in his first three months. Reagan, who delivered his own version of FDR’s fireside chats every Saturday on radio, was trying to heal an economy left behind by one-term president Jimmy Carter. In his first 100 days in office, Reagan signed 18. Not yet even a month into this term, Trump has signed 68. In this wide-ranging Presidents’ Day interview on the Furthermore with Amanda Head podcast, Shirley also discussed the media’s coverage of the Trump White House and the president’s distrust of so-called “fake news.” Shirley compared that with the Founding Fathers, who also were distrusting and soured on the media of their day. “In the 1770’s the framers and the founders hated the pamphleteers and the newspapers of the era. They despised them,” Shirley noted, However, the founders saw value in the media’s alliance with and representation of the American people against government. That dynamic, he said, has recently changed. “Only recently have we seen the government, the press, ally with the government against the people,” he noted. “They no longer are an ally of the American people. They’re an ally of government. And of course, you have two power centers: the press and the government allied against the American people.” He predicts that the result of this phenomenon nearly 250 years after our founding is that traditional media will be eliminated and new media will move in on their market share. “Because of that, a void has been created, and so you’ve seen the growth of alternative media…what I’m telling you is that we will see in the next four or five years, the collapse of the Washington Post, the collapse of CNN, the collapse of maybe another network,” Shirley warned. Traditional news media has had a tough time coping with Trump’s barrage of actions from the Oval Office and are worried there’s no one to stop him. On the Politics War Room podcast, veteran democrat consultant James Carville mocked liberal talking heads who after their election loss in November, expressed optimism that there would be road blocks along the way. Carville teared into them saying, “they didn’t come, they’re not there, OK? Let’s just get over it. They’re not coming. The cavalry is not coming, the courts are not coming, nothing.” It’s not just the media that has lost its way. According to Shirley, historians no longer adhere to the core values of chronicling events honestly through a neutral prism. “You know that there are liberal historians. Some of them used to be friends of mine, but they really turned south over the first election of Donald Trump, and they really, let’s face it, they lost their minds,” he said. “There’s no talking to them. So the conservative historians, the common sense historians, are few and far between, but they [liberals] still control a lot of the institutions of universities and presidential libraries, things like that. So conservative historians are kind of