President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reduces the scope of the federal bureaucracy by eliminating nonessential government agencies and functions.
The order mandates certain agencies to reduce non-statutory functions, including:
- The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
- The United States Agency for Global Media, including Voice of America
- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services
- The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
- The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
- The Minority Business Development Agency
The order instructs the agencies, some of which are not even on the radar of most Americans, to reduce operations to the bare minimum required by law.
Trump’s approach allows the agencies to continue legally mandated duties, but eliminates superfluous activities that may divert resources from more pressing national priorities, such as shrinking the $36 trillion national debt.
The executive order also directs the heads of the affected agencies to submit a compliance report to the Office of Management and Budget within seven days. The report must detail which functions are statutorily required and assess the extent of necessary personnel and funding reductions.
OMB and other relevant executive offices will review these agencies’ budget requests as the process continues to ensure they align with the new directive, and are not spending on non-essential services.
Many of Trump’s previous executive orders have landed in the liberal District of Columbia Court as nongovernmental organizations and former employees of the federal government sue the Trump Administration. But that may be part of the Trump strategy of revealing whether the executive branch is really in charge, or if the judicial branch is actually the one running the government. Americans should have that answer, either way.
Trump continues to dismantle important Government functions, doing great harm to the Nation and its economy, not to mention your investments.
Trump is a serial liar, a con man who mocks the disabled and women. He’s a narcissist and a bully, a man with no fixed principles who has the vocabulary of an emotionally insecure nine-year-old.
You elected a convicted felon to the most powerful office in the world — broadly immune from accountability, and literally above the law in his official duties.
Now look, with the chaos bubbling all around you. On again, off again tariffs, pointless trade wars with our allies; endless graft; a slash and burn through the government that endangers everything from air travel to Social Security; pardons for rioters and crooked politicians; assaults on the rule of law and free speech; the abandonment of allies; attacks on the press, the courts, and the legal establishment, and now a crumbling stock market.
We are all winning So Bigly. Never in our history has a President so recklessly damaged and sabotaged his country. Shame on all who voted for him. When he comes for you and your benefits, don’t say we didn’t tell you.
President continues to ignore the co equal branches of Government and disregard the US Constitution while kowtowing to Putin like a Russian agent. Fixed it for ya.