Day: November 20, 2024

Wall Street Journal Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections. This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers. Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem. On Nov. 5, voters decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change, and they deserve to get it. President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut the federal government down to size. The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. That’s why we’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal…

Breitbart   The chances that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees are confirmed by the Senate are quite good, according to Jeff Greenfield, a contributing writer at Politico Magazine. Greenfield’s opinion contradicts the mainstream media’s narrative on the confirmation chances of Pete Hegseth, Matt Gaetz, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.   Big media outlets have been claiming for days the three have almost a zero chance of confirmation. Punchbowl News told readers last week Gaetz “can’t get confirmed.” Greenfield, a Yale-trained lawyer and former speechwriter of President John F. Kennedy informed Politico Magazine readers that history supports the confirmation of Trump’s nominees, who he characterized as “the most unqualified individuals ever to be nominated.” READ THE FULL STORY                 

Washington Examiner   One of the first actions that President-elect Donald Trump could take come Jan. 20, 2025, is rescinding the Biden administration’s ban on the term “illegal alien.” Advisers to Trump’s transition team on homeland security matters told the Washington Examiner this week that there have already been discussions on doing away with the Biden administration’s politically correct immigration language to talk about illegal immigrants at the border and within the country. “In this [present] administration, we used ‘undocumented immigrants,’ right?” said a former high-ranking immigration official who now is involved in advising the transition team on policy. “Expect all of that to change.” READ THE FULL STORY                 

Center for Immigration Studies   With President-Elect Trump promising a “mass deportation” program for aliens here illegally, Canada is bracing for a surge of third-country migrants headed north. Expect the “world’s longest undefended border” to soon be a little more defended, as a migrant surge would likely imperil the electoral prospects of current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party. “Canada Prepares for a Rise in Border Crossings”. Two days after the November 5 U.S. presidential election, Canada’s national public broadcast outlet, the CBC, published an article headlined “Canada prepares for a rise in border crossings with threat of mass deportations under Trump”. That article noted there was a surge in illegal border crossings into Canada in 2017 after Trump was elected president the first time, and warned that something similar or worse could occur following his latest electoral victory, which was bolstered by his promises of expanded immigration enforcement: The mere threat of mass deportation could lead to a rise in both asylum claims at official ports of entry and attempts to make clandestine crossings into Canada, said Jennifer Elrick, an associate professor of sociology at McGill University who studies immigration policy. Overall, the second Trump presidency could have a “profound impact on…

The Associated Press   Danish lawmakers on Monday agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats over the next two decades in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage. The government called the agreement “the biggest change to the Danish landscape in over 100 years.” “The Danish nature will change in a way we have not seen since the wetlands were drained in 1864,” said Jeppe Bruus, head of Denmark’s Green Tripartite Ministry, created to implement a green deal reached in June among farmers, the industry, the labor unions and environmental groups. READ THE FULL STORY