It used to be that Americans were ashamed to be dependent upon others – but today people seem to embrace Government Dependency as if they're entitled to it. This is best described as an addiction that's destructive to liberty, and personal virtue. But, there's a new sheriff in town – in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump and his DOGE team are bringing an inspiring, no-nonsense message to government, AND its citizens — and Americans are thirsting for it. It’s time to cut the gravy train.

“After a 6-week review, we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio early Monday morning. “The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States," said Rubio, announcing that those programs being kept will fall under the purview of the State Department.  Democrats are losing their minds.

Fable One: President Trump is... appeasing Russia? But, of the last four U.S. Presidents, under whose watch did Putin not invade another country? Which president sold offensive weapons to Ukraine first? Who warned Germany NOT to become dependent on the Russian Nord Stream II Pipeline deal? Who withdrew from an unfair missile deal with the Russians? Who cajoled and berated NATO members to meet their military investment promises made following the 2014 invasion of Ukraine? Who?

Sometimes stupid and insanity are hard to differentiate – but it sure was apparent during President Trump's Tuesday Night Speech that Democrats haven't learned a thing and can be both at the same time. Applaud for a heroic orphan getting into West Point? Nope. Applaud for finding & cutting waste in the Federal Budget? Are you crazy? I don’t know what genius came up with the strategy of only adopting positions normal Americans hate, but it sure is a bold one. I’m just eager to see how it works out for them.

During his last “State of the Union” speech on February 4th, 2020, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was so out-of-control that she tore up her copy of his speech for everyone to see. This act of defiance was highly inappropriate and unprecedented – House Leaders had never acted in such a despicable way, yet today Pelosi’s childish tantrum typifies how Democrats feel about President Trump. Their mean and childish case of Trump Derangement Syndrome benefits not a single American... And they're getting worse.

One of the more baffling lawsuits in the final days of the Biden Administration was the complaint against Zelle, the popular money transfer network. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau argued that – despite Zelle's service being free – the network's users were being ripped off. Now that the Trump White House has all but closed the CFPB down, the lingering lawsuit is the first of many that should be tossed out. The very people CFPB purports to be protecting, would be the victims here.

Everything about President Donald Trump & Vice President JD Vance kicking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sorry, begging, petulant, pompous, entitled ass out of the White House last Friday is the perfect encapsulation of an "America First" foreign policy in practice – not just theory. This is exactly what I voted for, and I couldn’t be more proud of our leaders for practicing what they preach – consequences and optics be damned. If anyone can succeed, Americans are believing Donald Trump can.

It's time for all of us to ensure that those working tirelessly to root out waste, fraud and abuse in Washington, D.C. don't fall for the “fake news” that the media and others are spreading. Nationwide political chatter is focused on cleaning up the D.C. Swamp, cutting billions of fat in absentee employees, and stopping the Scandalous Boondoggle Spending – which is long, long overdue. Here's one effective tool to help working-class patients and providers – and prevent further stains on the American Taxpayer.

At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commanders-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad. But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled. And so none did -- until now.

President Donald Trump entered his 2nd Term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. Joe Biden left Donald Trump with a shaky economy. So, what should Team Trump do? First, the focus should quickly shift toward cutting regulations – the true sand in the gears of American Consumers and Commerce. Second, the Republican Congress must make Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts permanent. And third, there is only one path forward toward economic prosperity for the United States.

Despite losing the 2024 Election, Democrats continue to try and claim Donald Trump represents "a Constitutional Crisis." But if there is one – which there isn't – they should know by now that most Americans blame THEM for violating the Constitution's boundaries and restrictions against excess government. A majority now sympathizes with our nation's 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, who a century ago said: "Unless the people – through unified action – arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them."

In neighborhoods across America, families go about their daily lives never imagining the shadow of violent cartels could be creeping into their communities. But make no mistake, ruthless gangs and cartels are not just a border problem – they are here exploiting loopholes to traffic drugs, launder money, and destroy lives. When states are inactive, drug cartels and human traffickers thrive. Criminals exploit weak policies and political inaction to sustain their operations. It's time to take a stand.

There’s something about being exposed that causes stupidity; a kneejerk reaction to push back against reality, no matter how obvious. As DOGE and President Donald Trump work to expose and fight government waste, fraud and abuse (how sad is it that they have to FIGHT Democrats to end those things?), more ways in which the federal government has been doing those things is coming to light.  As a result of this disinfecting glow of sunlight, people are losing their jobs. While that’s never fun, those jobs are simply unnecessary

Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of President Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the venom only further marginalizes the left. In its too-long 50th anniversary spectacle, Saturday Night Live offered a skit in which marquee actor Tom Hanks did an impression of what the left thinks is a supposedly Neanderthal Trump supporter.

President Trump correctly points out that tariffs, at one time, served as the principal source of federal government revenue. From the nation's founding until the Civil War, tariffs generated 90% of federal revenue. From the Civil War until 1913, when the Constitution was amended to provide an income tax, tariffs produced 50%. In 1900, government at all three levels -- federal, state & local -- took less than 9% in taxes and fees from the American people. Today, it takes about 32%.

New York is already getting sued by the Trump administration for prioritizing illegal aliens over the safety of Americans. Get ready for New York City to be slammed with similar suits. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blusters that the legal action is a "worthless, publicity-driven lawsuit" that will "be a total failure." Hochul insists "New York is not backing not down." She's dead wrong about the merits of the lawsuit. It's a slam dunk.

The left and their comrades in the MSM are whining about Donald Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America – but notice they only bring up objections, avoiding mention of the favorable reasons. The most obvious is that “America” includes Mexico and the Lower Continents too – which I haven’t read in a single fake news article. The left rails against conservatives who refuse to call transgenders by their newly chosen opposite gender names, but yet seems to have no problem renaming landmarks. 

Here are some of the untruths being told about Elon Musk and DOGE: "No one elected Musk. Musk has no right to cut USAID." Well, Elon Musk and his team are NOT cutting any Federal Programs. They are auditors given legal authority under no less than a Presidential Executive Order creating the Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Its mandate is to identify waste, abuse, fraud, and irrelevance in the federal budget at a time when the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt. The agency will expire on July 4th, 2026.

Now we know why DOGE, Trump & Musk are constantly under attack for the simple act of trying to make sure all of us taxpayers don’t get ripped off – turns out that dern near the entire left and Democrat Party exists because we're being ripped off! Every time a Republican sneezed in the last decade there was a mob of Democrats there to protest it. But now the laughable “protests” we’ve seen in D.C. consist of government union members, Democrat hill staffers, and party grunts. That’s all that show up!

The day after the U.S. Senate voted 99-0 to confirm Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he gave a speech to the employees of the State Department in Washington, DC. Americans had elected Donald Trump, he said, with "a very clear mission" in foreign policy. "That mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is centered on one thing – the advancement of our national interest, which they clearly defined through his campaign as anything that makes us stronger, or safer, or more prosperous." It is not to remake the world.