President Donald Trump is the wrecking ball of the American people. And we’re swinging it full force at the bloated bureaucracy and corruption that has infected our nation’s capital. Expressions of fear are glued on the faces of the establishment hacks and vile deep state operators working within the government to destroy this wonderful country and rebuild it as a Marxist nightmare. And It’s amazing to watch.
Trump is firing political appointees, freezing all kinds of government waste spending, and going after deep state pawns in one agency after another, rooting out the corruption that has rotted away the foundation of the United States. The left isn’t sure how to respond to all the chaos. It’s left them stunned, in a complete state of shock.
Here’s a prime example. A person who claims to be a “current employee at the Office of Personnel Management” has stated that the president has started a “hostile takeover of the federal civil service.” Here’s the message from said employee from a post on Twitter.
So what’s really upsetting these folks is that the president, along with his team, have taken over control of our country’s infrastructure, which is in charge of overseeing all federal personnel decisions. And that’s not something we’ve seen before.
During Trump’s first go-around in the White House, he attempted to play ball with the establishment. He learned his lesson and is taking a much different approach this time around. On Tuesday of this week, the White House revealed there was going to be a “temporary suspension” of the vast majority of grants and loans.
President Donald Trump’s administration has enacted a temporary suspension of all federal grants and loans, effective today, Tuesday, January 28, 2025. This strategic pause, orchestrated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is designed to facilitate a comprehensive review of federal financial assistance programs, ensuring that taxpayer dollars are utilized efficiently and in accordance with the administration’s objectives. This initiative reflects President Trump’s unwavering commitment to fiscal responsibility and his dedication to eliminating wasteful spending.
This, too, is not something we’ve witnessed another president do in the past. However, it’s a sensible move. The president and his administration want to take a look at where all of the federal money is being spent so taxpayer dollars can be used efficiently and for good projects, not wokeness.
Assistance for individuals that is sent directly to them is not a part of the freeze. This is something that new Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has made quite clear. The freeze will not impact Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, etc.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the pause wouldn’t cover Social Security and Medicare benefits or food stamps – assistance that is going directly to individuals. “This is not a blanket pause on federal assistance and grant programs from the Trump administration,” Leavitt said. “However, it is the responsibility of this president and this administration to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.”
Raising concerns, however, were reports on Tuesday that Medicaid’s payment systems were not functioning.
Several lawmakers took to social media on Tuesday afternoon to confirm that that their state’s Medicaid payment systems have been shut off. “Can confirm. Connecticut’s Medicaid payment system has been turned off. Doctors and hospitals cannot get paid,” wrote Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut in a post on the social media site X. “Discussions ongoing about whether services can continue.”
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said on X that his staff has confirmed that Medicaid portals in all 50 states are down due to the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze.
Trump’s administration revealed that it’s aware of the issue and assured citizens that Medicaid payments that might have experienced a temporary delay will soon be processed.
The White House has said it is ‘aware of the Medicaid website portal outage’ but insisted no payments had been denied and were instead just delayed in being processed. But state and federal officials say the issue is already impacting providers across the country and worrying millions of people who rely on Medicaid for everything from prescription medicines and preventive screening to unexpected hospital stays and checkups.
Leftists, true to form, went completely insane and a bunch of groups ran to the courts and were able to locate a judge that was sympathetic.
A federal district judge on Tuesday granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administration’s planned freeze of federal aid, pausing the plan for a week and setting a hearing for further arguments Monday morning. The order applies only to the pause of disbursements in open grants, Judge Loren AliKhan said. And it doesn’t get into the legality of the freeze; instead, it gives her time to hear more fleshed-out arguments from a coalition of nonprofit groups about why she should issue a temporary restraining order that could block the freeze for an additional two weeks. The hearing will take place at 11 a.m. Monday.
The temporary suspension of federal grants and loans will likely be upheld. Another huge move was to temporarily freeze most foreign aid.
Internal communications reviewed by ABC News show that the Trump administration plans to strictly implement an executive order from the president mandating a 90-day freeze on almost all U.S. foreign aid amid a review, a measure that already has sparked widespread concern among humanitarian organizations.
“We get tired of giving massive amounts of money to countries that hate us, don’t we?” President Donald Trump said in a speech during the House Republicans’ annual retreat in Florida on Monday, touting a blizzard of executive actions he had taken since returning tothe White House.
Two exceptions are emergency food programs and military aid sent to Israel and Egypt. Those are the only ones, however. Why pause aid? To see where the money is really going.
And as if Trump hasn’t already blown minds with all of these unprecedented actions, he offered all federal employees who “don’t wish to return to in-person work at the office” a buyout.
The Trump administration is offering buyouts to all federal employees who don’t wish to return to in-person work at the office, a White House official confirmed to USA TODAY. The offer, which will be outlined in a memo the U.S. Office of Personnel Management intends to send on Tuesday, would give federal employees eight months of pay until September if they resign by Feb. 6.
“If you choose not to continue in your current role in the federal workforce, we thank you for your service to your country and you will be provided with a dignified, fair departure from the federal deferred resignation program,” according to a copy of the memo reviewed by the USA TODAY.
As the old song goes, it’s a new day, a new world, and well, I’m feeling good.