U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi removed Pamela Hicks Thursday as general counsel for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Daily Wire reported. Hicks is just one of several holdovers from the Biden administration who have been fired in recent weeks.
President Donald Trump ordered that United States Attorneys who President Joe Biden had appointed must be terminated. This is standard procedure when a new president takes office.
"ATF’s Chief Counsel Pamela Hicks has been fired and escorted out of the Washington, D.C. headquarters. Hicks oversaw the enforcement of every Biden infringement of the Second Amendment since taking the position in 2021 " Gun Owners of America said in a post to X, formerly Twitter.
🚨BREAKING🚨
ATF’s Chief Counsel Pamela Hicks has been fired and escorted out of the Washington, D.C. headquarters.
Hicks oversaw the enforcement of every Biden infringement of the Second Amendment since taking the position in 2021. pic.twitter.com/Cvg8HN2gvP
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) February 20, 2025
Although it is standard procedure for the incoming administration to clean house, Trump had a particular mission informed by what he's been through. "Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before," Trump wrote to his Truth Social.
"Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys. We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System — THAT BEGINS TODAY!" Trump added.
Bondi agrees with Trump's assessment of the problems with the justice system and has taken up the task. While speaking on the podcast "Verdict" with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Bondi said that she was "concerned" about the extent of the rot but that they were "working on" replacing holdovers, according to Fox News.
"We're working on it. It's day by day by day, but we've got a team of great people. And on day one, I issued 14 executive orders. And number one is the weaponization ends. And it ends now. And that's what we did."
She also said that the Department of Justice has "lost its mission of fighting violent crime" while actively working against Trump. "Look what they did to President Trump. Look at the weaponization," Bondi said.
Meanwhile, although Hicks served as deputy chief counsel of the agency during Trump's first administration, she loyally carried out the Second Amendment crackdowns during her tenure with the Biden ATF. In her post to Linked In, Hicks had only positive things to say about her tenure.
"Earlier today, I was served official notice from the Attorney General of the United States that I was being removed from my position as the Chief Counsel of ATF and my employment with the Department of Justice terminated. I have had the privilege of serving in the federal civil service for almost 28 years, including 23 as an attorney for the Department of Justice," she wrote.
"Serving as ATF Chief Counsel has been the highest honor of my career and working with the people at ATF and throughout the Department has been a pleasure. I thank my colleagues for their friendship and partnership over the years," Hicks said in her post.
While Bondi chips away at the top leadership, The Hill reported that Trump has been greenlighted for mass firings in the federal government. Several government employee unions sued the president, but the court ruled this week that he could proceed with the firings.
Trump learned his lesson the hard way regarding trusting holdovers from the previous administration. Now, he's doing his best to clear out all of the dead wood and those actively trying to harm him and his agenda, and it's about time.
President Donald Trump has swapped out the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office while it's being refurbished, The Independent reported. The iconic presidential piece was used by former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama but now requires a refresh.
There are at least six options for presidents to choose from when it comes to the desk. Trump explained on Truth Social Wednesday that he decided on the historic C&O desk for now.
"President, after election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks. This desk, the 'C&O,' which is also very well-known and was used by President George H.W. Bush and others, has been temporarily installed in the White House while the Resolute Desk is being lightly refinished—a very important job. This is a beautiful, but temporary replacement!" Trump posted Wednesday.
The C&O desk Trump will temporarily use was so named for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. It was custom-made for the owners of the company and was in the Oval Office Study in 1975.
In 1987, the desk became part of the permanent presidential collection after the GSX corporation officially gifted it to the White House. Although this is a stately piece of furniture, it doesn't carry the gravitas of the desk it's replacing.
The Resolute Desk has been part of the storied Oval Office decor collection since 1880, when Queen Victoria presented it as a gift to President Rutherford Hayes. It was made from the wood salvaged from the British ship, the HMS Resolute.
President John F. Kennedy was the first to place it in the Oval Office in 1961. It was removed in 1963 by President Lyndon B. Johson after Kennedy's assassination, and the desk was displayed in the Smithsonian between 1966 and 1977.
President Jimmy Carter returned the desk to use in the White House in 1977, and every president has utilized it since then except for George H.W. Bush, who chose the C&O. Until Trump, the elder Bush was the only president to use the C&O Desk in the Oval Office.
Although this seems like a routine change for a president to make, some news outlets had fun speculating about the abrupt move. As the entertainment site E! noted, it could have something to do with Trump's notorious germaphobia.
During a taped news conference for Trump's Department of Government Efficiency on Feb. 12, the young son of Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to pick his nose and wipe it on the desk. Musk shares four-year-old X Æ A-12, known simply as X, and two other children with pop star Grimes.
Trump gushed about Musk's young son but didn't comment on the child's decision to use the desk as a tissue. "This is X, and he's a great guy—high IQ," the president told the media.
Although it's an interesting theory about the nasal secretions warranting the refresh, Trump did not indicate that there was any reason beyond simply restoring it to its former glory. The president made similar refurbishments to the White House in his first term.
Of all the recent presidents, Trump seems to have the most reverence for the treasures of the White House. The Resolute Desk will be brought to its former glory after surviving the Obama and Biden administrations, just as Trump is doing for the entire nation.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer share the names of the GOP lawmakers who will sit on President Donald Trump's task force in charge of declassified documents, Just The News reported. The committee will expose information from Jeffrey Epstein's files and the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Comer announced the Republican members on Tuesday, including his choice for chairwoman, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida. The others are Reps. Eli Craine of Arizona, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, and Brandon Gill of Texas.
These lawmakers will make up the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which will be in charge of handling the dissemination of information from the government's trove of secrets. So far, no Democrats have joined.
"Ensuring government transparency for the American people is a core mission of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The Republicans on Rep. Luna’s task force are steadfast champions of transparency, and I am confident they will vigorously pursue and deliver the truth on critical issues," Comer said in a statement.
Luna also released a statement to X, formerly Twitter, about her plans for the task force and its important mission. "First hearing will cover JFK," she wrote.
"I am looking to bring in a few people. To include an individual on the assassination record review board as well as someone on the House Select Committee on Assassinations. There will be a few more," Luna went on.
"Deep state mouthpieces are trying to take what I said and skew it. Cope harder," she added, calling out her detractors.
First hearing will cover JFK. I am looking to bring in a few people. To include an individual on the assassination record review board as well as someone on the House Select committee on Assassinations. There will be a few more. Deep state mouth pieces are trying to take what I…
— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) February 11, 2025
According to Fox News, Luna and Comer were busy sending letters to various agencies looking for documents. Some of those included the CIA over the origins of COVID-19, the Defense Department and CIA for 9/11 files, the National Security Agency and CIA over the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, and the Justice Department for Jeffrey Epstein's files.
President Donald Trump created this task force through an executive order to fulfill one of his many campaign promises. The president demanded a review to complete the release of the JFK files as well as those related to other political assassinations.
Comer believes this is important in restoring trust in the government. "For too long, the federal government has kept information of public interest classified, and the American people are demanding greater transparency," he told Fox News.
"This secrecy has sowed distrust in our institutions," Comer added. He said the task force would "build on the Trump administration’s efforts to declassify records of national importance and ensure Americans get the answers they deserve."
The Kentucky lawmaker praised Luna for her role in this assignment. "Rep. Luna is committed to shining a light on the truth and ending the era of secrecy. It’s time to let the sunlight in and finally provide answers the American public has long demanded," Comer said.
The American people have lost faith in their government after decades of lies and coverups. Trump is restoring that and showing that he's a man of his word by keeping those campaign promises.
Elon Musk said that his Department of Government Efficiency audit found millions of people in the Social Security system who would be over 100 years old, Fox News reported. As of the 2020 census, only about 80,000 centenarians exist in America.
The Telsa billionaire shared a table showing the distribution of Social Security payments for each age bracket. "According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!" Musk explained in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.
"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," he joked. The table showed 20 million people listed with ages above 100, including more than 1.3 million people aged 150-159.
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2025
Besides the troubling data, Musk has also uncovered that the program is more of an unruly beast than a well-oiled machine. "The logic flow diagram for the Social Security system looks INSANE," Musk said in another post to X.
"No one person actually knows how it works. The payment files that move between Social Security and Treasury have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled. It’s wild," he added.
Musk further charged that "there are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history."
Unfortunately, Democrats are losing their minds over the DOGE review of Social Security rather than what the audit uncovered. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned an "unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government" after Musk's task force found massive waste and abuse at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
"Republicans in Congress must join us to take action to restore the rule of law and stop any potential lawbreaking by DOGE. DOGE is spreading across the federal government like a virus, and it’s American people who will pay the price when their benefits and payments are illegally taken away," Schumer breathlessly warned in a statement from his office.
The hysteria continued as Michelle King recently resigned as acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration over the weekend in response to the DOGE investigation, the Washington Post reported. According to three sources close to the matter, King was worried about the task force accessing government data.
Despite the optics, this move is positive for Musk's effort overall. President Donald Trump has appointed Leland Dudek, who is already experienced in the fraud office of Social Security and is supportive of DOGE's mission. Trump's nominee for the permanent position, Frank Bisignano, awaits Senate confirmation.
However, panic has already set in after Trump chose Dudek over other senior leaders in the agency. "At this rate, they will break it," Martin O’Malley, former President Joe Biden's Social Security commissioner, said.
"And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits," O'Malley ominously warned. "To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency," he later added.
It's telling that people from these agencies are panicked over any sort of scrutiny of their dealings. The American people are ready for real change to cut the fat, fraud, and waste from these agencies, and that's exactly what Musk has been empowered to do.
A new docuseries about the murder of social media influencer Gabby Petito by her boyfriend Brian Laundrie in 2021 revealed that Petito texted an ex-boyfriend, Jackson, that she wanted to leave Laundrie but was afraid of what he would do.
The docuseries, which was recently released to Netflix, "American Murder: Gabby Petito," contains previously unseen text messages from Petito, Laundrie and her mother Roberta.
It also has new interviews with family members and friends, including Jackson.
"She wasn’t sure of what he would do, or what he could do," he told docuseries directors/producers Julia Willoughby Nason and Michael Gasparro.
Besides the text messages to Jackson, Petito also texted her mother just before the murder to say she thought she might do better vlogging on her own without Laundrie.
Petito's parents cooperated with the docuseries as well as creating a foundation to help other domestic violence victims.
"Looking at her text messages with Brian for the first time, knowing that he had murdered her was haunting because it was like the manipulation… was very subtle.," Nason said. "And I think that we're hoping that this series can show the subtlety of intimate partner abuse, especially among young people."
On the day authorities believe Gabby was murdered, Laundrie argued with the staff at a Tex-Mex restaurant where he and Petito ate after she said she felt sick and believed the food was responsible.
Hours later, Petito was seen alive for the last time on surveillance camera outside a Whole Foods in Wyoming.
She reportedly tried to call Jackson, but he was working and missed the call.
In a last text message to her mother, she said Laundrie had agreed to sleep outside that night while she slept in the van they were camping in.
Laundrie was never arrested for Petito's murder because police did not find the body until after he had killed himself.
The Gabby Petito Foundation is already getting feedback that people have gotten out of abusive relationships after hearing her story.
"This is how the foundation is helping," Gasparro said. "They've become a resource for people like this."
Despite relentless challenges in the courts and in the media, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is continuing its cost-cutting mission, notching significant achievements along the way.
As the Daily Mail reports, the official DOGE X account revealed that almost $2 billion in funds previously misplaced by Biden-era officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have been recovered, a scenario Musk blamed on gross mismanagement during the prior administration.
In a post to X outlining the impressive development, DOGE officials explained, “These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed.”
The fact that the funds were misplaced at all during the Biden years was, according to DOGE, a symptom of a “broken process.”
Pointing to greater efficiency that will now be possible, the post added, “@SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury.”
Referenced in the post was the new Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, who was confirmed to the role earlier this month.
Turner has already indicated his willingness to collaborate with DOGE to facilitate the transformation of the department he now leads, posting a video message on X last week announcing the creation of the task force together with DOGE.
The work, Turner said, will be “very detailed and deliberate about every dollar spend in serving trial, rural and urban communities across America.”
In keeping with President Donald Trump's commitment to streamlining every corner of the federal government, Turner noted in a press release that the group would be made up of HUD employees aiming to “examine how to best maximize the agency's budget and ensure all programs, processes and personnel are working together to advance the purpose of the department.”
An early win for the task force, as noted by Turner, was the task force's recovery of another $260 million in savings, though it was not immediately apparent where the money was found or what any related cuts might mean for HUD programming.
Adding to the potential efficiencies to be found within his agencies, reports suggest that significant layoffs of HUD staff may be on the cards, but no specifics on numbers have been released.
In addition to the recovered funds at HUD, DOGE has touted significant wins elsewhere across the federal government, announcing he cancellation of dozens of contracts related to media, DEI, and consulting services at a range of agencies including the Transportation Department and the Department of Homeland Security, as Fox News noted.
Another prime target of DOGE's cost-cutting mission has been the Department of Education, in which more than $100 million in DEI training-related grants have already been canceled.
Given the impressive pace at which DOGE is finding and rooting out wasteful spending and misappropriated funds, it seems certain that Trump, Musk, and the team leading the charge to downsize the federal government are only just getting started.
Socialite Bettina Anderson shared a touching memory while on a luxury Valentine's Day getaway with boyfriend Donald Trump Jr., the UK Daily Mail reported. The relationship recently became official with President Donald Trump's eldest son.
Anderson took to her Instagram on Friday to post from a private island getaway with the younger Trump. She reportedly shared several Instagram stories of the luxurious trip, but she also shared one sweet memory from childhood.
The post was a photo of the 38-year-old as a little girl with her entrepreneur father, Harry Loy Anderson, at a beach. The sundrenched pair are pictured standing ankle-deep in the surf while focused on a fishing pole that Harry Loy Anderson is holding.
"My first Valentine. Taught me everything I know," Bettina Anderson captioned the photo tribute to her father.
According to the Palm Beach Post, while his father made news as the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl, Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson debuted their relationship in New Orleans during the Super Bowl LIX last weekend. The pair previously had been spotted together at events, including the inauguration.
However, the fact that both posted photos from the VIP box for the big game indicates that Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson are "Instagram official." Other Trump family members were also in attendance, including three of the five children Donald Trump Jr. shares with ex-wife Vanessa Trump.
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Notably, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-fiance, also came to watch the Kansas City Chiefs play the Philadelphia Eagles. The former Fox News host and attorney is currently the ambassador to Greece after being appointed by President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle had dated for six years but called it quits late last year. The breakup in December came after Donald Trump Jr. was seen kissing and holding hands with Bettina Anderson.
President Donald Trump was known for choosing family members for positions during his first presidential term. According to the New York Post, it seems he's hoping to turn his family into a political dynasty like the Kennedys this time around.
In an interview with Time Magazine published in December, President Donald Trump said it "could be" a possibility for his legacy. "I have some very competent members of my family," President Donald Trump said.
"My kids are very competent," he added. The president lauded the input from his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, for a successful campaign, particularly his namesake.
"I think [Don Jr. would] do well, especially in certain areas. I think he’d do very well. I think he’s a very capable guy," the president said. "Eric is very capable, and a very different type," he noted of Eric Trump, who worked on the campaign alongside his wife, Lara Trump.
The Trump family has become a political powerhouse, including for the people who marry into it. There's no telling if Bettina Anderson will become the next Mrs. Trump, but going public about their relationship is undoubtedly a significant step.
Sen. Tina Smith has decided not to run for reelection at the end of her term in 2026, Breitbart reported. The Minnesota Democrat made the announcement Thursday as some speculate that she called it quits before suffering defeat.
Smith released a video message on her X page announcing her intention to leave after finishing out her term. "I’ve decided not to run for re-election to the Senate in 2026.," she captioned the post.
"This job has been the honor of a lifetime. For the rest of my term, I’ll work as hard as I can for Minnesotans and our country. Thank you so much, Minnesota," Smith wrote.
I’ve decided not to run for re-election to the Senate in 2026.
This job has been the honor of a lifetime. For the rest of my term, I’ll work as hard as I can for Minnesotans and our country.
Thank you so much, Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/3sWVib8nKJ
— Senator Tina Smith (@SenTinaSmith) February 13, 2025
In Smith's video statement, she insisted she was leaving simply to spend more time with her family. "This decision is not political. It is entirely personal," she said.
"But it’s not lost on me that our country is in need of strong, progressive leadership right now, maybe more than ever," Smith added. However, it's not necessarily what her constituents will vote for.
Although Minnesota mostly votes Democratic, President Donald Trump has fared well in the North Star State. In 2016 and 2024, Trump was within a few points of turning the state red, and the GOP hopes to gain even more ground in the home state of form Gov. Tim Walz, the former Democratic vice presidential candidate.
Senate Republicans took the opportunity of Smith's resignation to make the point about the future of her party. "Retire or lose," the official X account captioned Smith's video.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott echoed that sentiment in a statement Thursday. "Minnesota is in play, and we play to win. Minnesotans deserve a Senator who will fight for lower taxes, economic opportunity, and safer communities," he added.
It isn't just national elections where Republicans are making headway in Minnesota. According to Fox News, the state House of Representatives is now a 67-66 majority due to a power-sharing agreement.
This situation arose after it was found that Democratic House Rep.-elect Curtis Johnson "did not meet the residency requirements to represent Minnesota House District 40B, rendering him ineligible to take office," the news outlet stated. A special election will be held on March 11 to find a replacement.
In the meantime, Republican Rep. Lisa Demuth was elected Speaker of the House in Minnesota. The power-sharing agreement states that she will keep the position for a two-year term regardless of the outcome of a special election.
"We definitely have an advantage. And I think it's important to recognize that the reason that there is a special election that needed to be called is because the Democrats had a candidate that lied and cheated and couldn't take office," Demuth said.
The tide is turning throughout the U.S. for Democrats, and politicians like Smith must see the writing on the wall. Trump's election opened the floodgates for other Republicans, and Democrats are struggling to keep up.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor asserted the high court's power against challenges from President Donald Trump and his allies, The Hill reported. Although she didn't mention the president by name, the judge said that there were safeguards against turning the nation into a "monarchy."
Sotomayor made her remarks during a fireside chat with Knight Foundation CEO Maribel Pérez Wadsworth this week. The Obama-appointed justice was careful not to mention Trump.
However, her remarks come as the Trump administration pushed back on federal judges who have granted temporary injunctions against some of his executive orders. Sotomayor noted that the judiciary has "soft power" over laws in the U.S. even as Congress makes the laws.
"Our founders were hell-bent on ensuring that we didn’t have a monarchy. And the first way they thought of that was to give Congress the power of the purse, and because that’s an incredible power," Sotomayor claimed at the event in Miami Dade College in Florida.
According to the Washington Post, several of Trump's executive orders have been put on hold due to actions in federal courts. Trump's ban on birthright citizenship, his dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development, and other initiatives have been halted thanks to the judiciary.
Other edicts about allowing for transgender military members and banning transition for minors remain in limbo while the judges decide. About the only thing Trump has been granted is the buyout of federal employees.
There have been some questions about whether Trump will regard the court's decisions. From her remarks, it's clear that Sotomayor was making a point about the court's power over Trump.
"Court decisions stand. Whether one particular person chooses to abide by them or not, it doesn’t change the foundation that it’s still a court order that someone will respect at some point," the justice claimed.
"That’s the faith I have in this system. And that other actors in the system, whether it’s Congress or others, will follow the law, because it’s what we all take an oath of office to do," Sotomayor added.
Sotomayor and others insist on the judiciary's power, but the courts do not have absolute authority. Vice President J.D. Vance articulated the limits in a post to X, formerly Twitter, Sunday.
"If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal," Vance wrote.
"Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power," Vance concluded. If the judiciary is getting over its skis, these issues will need to be hashed out even while the Democrats cry foul.
If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.
If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.
Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 9, 2025
The tension between the executive and judicial branches of government was the intention of the founding of the government to ensure checks and balances. However, the fight will likely become particularly ruthless because of those who are intent on stopping Trump. He's ready for it.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to formally launch the Department of Government Efficiency's effort to streamline the government, according to a White House Fact Sheet. The initiative will focus on scaling back the federal workforce.
One of Trump's many campaign promises was to slash government waste and root out corruption. He brought in Tesla billionaire Elon Musk to help with the task, a fact which has the left apoplectic.
Reuters reported that Musk and his son, "Lil X," joined Trump in the Oval Office to sign the executive orders. An account for the America PAC run by Musk shared a photo of the occasion to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump is joined by Elon Musk and his son, ‘Lil X’, in the Oval Office as he signs an Executive Order requiring federal agencies to collaborate with @DOGE. pic.twitter.com/47FtsL5siZ
— America (@america) February 11, 2025
The order promised to make the "federal workforce more efficient and effective" through DOGE. The main priority is slashing the number of people working in the government.
"There are too many federal employees," the fact sheet for the order asserts. It noted that there are some 2.4 million workers spread over at least 400 agencies in the Federal Register.
"In fiscal year 2022, the federal government spent nearly $300 billion on compensation for civilian employees, excluding pensions.
According to a recent congressional report, only 6% of federal workers report to work in-person on a full-time basis," the document went on.
The order includes a roadmap to future hiring after the cuts so they will be more difficult to roll back. "Agency Heads will coordinate and consult with DOGE to shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions," it stated.
The order also promised to limit hiring to "no more than one employee for every four employees that depart from federal service." However, that rule included exemptions for law enforcement, public safety, and immigration.
Besides the dollars and cents of it, Trump's executive order also includes employee accountability. "The Office of Personnel Management will initiate a rulemaking to ensure federal employees are held to the highest standards of conduct," the order noted.
The order is "building on past success" that Trump believes will make America great again. "President Trump has made reforming the federal workforce a key priority for his second term," the fact sheet stated.
"President Trump has consistently worked to shrink the administrative state. His first term spurred robust economic growth and innovation through regulatory reform. Workforce reform in his second term will build on these successes," it added.
When fielding questions from the press about this initiative, Trump said that he "couldn't ask for a stronger mandate from ... the public" in terms of his electoral victory. "The people voted for major government reform. There should be no doubt about that," Trump added, according to Reuters.
Trump is proceeding full steam ahead on fulfilling the promises he made during the campaign. With the help of Musk, Trump will cut the fat from the government and leave the swamp-dwellers scurrying for the exits.