By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – March 10, 2025 DOGE isn’t going to stave off or bring on the end times. On a Sunday show recently, one Republican commented that incrementalism hadn’t worked, so DOGE had to take a different approach. This isn’t right, though. In budgetary terms, DOGE is small-bore stuff, although the relatively minor scale has been masked by its lightning...

CREATING A STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE AND DIGITAL ASSET STOCKPILE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile, positioning the United States as a leader among nations in government digital asset strategy.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is one of the Democrats urging his party to resist President Donald Trump more aggressively across a broad range of issues.

President Trump suggests that state governments should have primary responsibility for handling disasters, and cutting federal taxes would allow states to access more money to address their needs.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 26, 2025 Democrats and Republican Thomas Massie endorsed a $4.5 trillion tax increase by voting against the budget resolution. The House’s budget resolution passed 217-215, and not without some last-minute drama. But Mr. Johnson and President Trump persuaded the last few grumblers, after weeks of negotiating with competing GOP factions, from moderates...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 19, 2025 Judge Chutkan says Democratic plaintiffs need evidence of harm. Fourteen Democratic state Attorneys General asked Judge Chutkan to enjoin Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from undertaking sundry actions. These include ordering changes in disbursement of public funds, making personnel decisions, accessing sensitive agency data, and directing that regulations be...

By: Audrey Fahlberg – nationalreview.com – February 18, 2025 Trump is ‘shutting down the government already. And so, we shouldn’t enable a further shutdown of services,’ Eric Swalwell said. As congressional Democrats search for a unifying message with which to resist President Trump, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) argues there is “common ground” among her colleagues around the “necessity to refuse...

A president is accountable through the election process. It is the independent federal agencies that are the true threat to democracy.

A federal judge in Washington on Friday handed Elon Musk’s government efficiency team a win by declining a request to temporarily block it from accessing sensitive data from at least three federal agencies.

Following the extraordinary joint press conference by President Trump and Elon Musk from the Oval Office, the press went on the offensive against Musk’s claims of transparency and finding billions of dollars in fraudulent or erroneous payments by the US Treasury.