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Every day that passes Elon Musk seems to uncover a new big of outrageousness that surpasses the outrageousness of the previous one. It’s reached the point where:
- Members of Congress are calling for the use of “actual weapons” against Musk
- Defense contractors making our jet being Chinese Intel agents.
- Elections considered meaningless if the GOP wins.
- A foreign leader resigns as USAID money keeping him in office after his term stops
- An anti mining protest fizzles when USAID money is cut off to pay protesters
- 59 Million sent to luxury hotels (owned by Pakistan) for illegals from FEMA is cut
All of this stuff is great and Kari Lake gets it
The text: Isn’t the easiest answer to why Jeffries is struggling to mount an Anti-Trump resistance is that the President, Elon, & DOGE have shut off the money tap for the astroturfed protest operations, &, it’s hard to fuel genuine opposition to an agenda that’s popular with the people?
but as I pointed out a bit ago:
All of these actions that Donald Trump has taken and he has taken many rather popular acts are completely reversible because they are by executive order.
If he wants them to stand beyond his presidency Trump needs to get these thing codified into law and the fact that the GOP house has not taken any action along those lines yet disturbs me.
Well apparently Johnson got the message:
We have a $36 trillion dollar federal debt. We have got to get ahold of these things. You’re going to see it reflected in the reconciliation package that comes forward, you’re going to see it reflected in the appropriations as we go forward, and you’re going to see it in these efforts to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
And we think the final number on that is going to be substantial and a game changer in Washington.
The clear threat was in Johnson’s final sentence. A game-changer in Washington. DOGE isn’t the weapon, it’s just the canary in the limestone mine. Now that Congress knows where the waste is —like USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Department of Education, DEI spending, the Treasury, Social Security, and the rest— legislators are working up a budget bill to nuke the Deep State from orbit.
It’s wonky, but this is very important. The fact Johnson announced a budget bill is critical. Bills related to reconciling the budget can be passed using a process called ‘budget reconciliation,’ which avoids the Senate filibuster and can be approved with a simple majority. In other words, it’s the Deep State’s worst nightmare: first, DOGE identified the bureaucratic bloat, and so now Republicans in Congress have a viable legislative path to cut the guts out of the bloated, mutant Swamp whale.
The folks at Coffee and COVID (via Insty) and that’s the bottom line.
If Johnson can keep the GOP in line (and I assume there are more than a few in on the graft) and get the bill out it’s game over for the left. Musk might get the headlines but Johnson can win the day and all the court cases against Trump will instantly become meaningless.
The irony? All of this is made possible because the can was kicked down the road on a government shutdown.
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