As I wrote earlier this week, the briefly Deep State machine is fighting back like the cornered animal it is. The sheer speed with which the Trumpdozer is ramming through the Swamp caught the snakes and alligators by surprise. Stunned by the floodlight turned on their nefarious activities by the Department of Government Efficiency, the swamp monsters were briefly paralysed.
Briefly.
Blinking and snarling, they’re trying their best counter-attacks, in tried-and-true fashion. First, the media launch a counteroffensive of lies, half-truths and smears. Secondly, Democrats run screaming to their pet judges.
A Saturday court order by US District Paul Engelmayer in New York temporarily precluded officials without proper background checks and security clearances from accessing the payment system through at least next Friday, including political appointees and special government appointees affiliated with Musk’s Department of Govern mental Efficiency set up by President Trump.
Engelmayer is, it goes without saying, an Obama appointee. His justification for a sole judge in a single state thwarting the democratically-expressed will of the American people? ‘I Just Reckon’.
In keeping with the new winds of freedom blowing across America, the Trump administration is signalling an end to activist judges acting as unelected law-makers.
“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” [JD Vance] wrote on X. “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.”
President Donald Trump and the Republicans controlling both house of Congress were elected with a clear promise to slash government spending and eliminate waste and corruption. They have as close to a mandate from the American people as any elected government ever had. Unelected judges blocking that mandate is clear and undemocratic overreach.
In response to a critical post from Biden administration Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller wrote, “Hey Pete, care to show us the line in the Constitution where it says a lone unelected district judge can assume decision-making control over the entire executive branch affecting 300M citizens? Any mention of nationwide district court [temporary restraining orders] TROs? Or permanent all-powerful bureaucracy?” […]
As The Independent has reported, with Republican control of both houses of Congress, and a muted protest response to Trump in comparison to his past term, the federal courts are seen as the most likely venue where Trump’s policies may face challenges.
In other words, when the Dems lose at the ballot box, they turn to the pet judges to rule, as poet Les Murray put it, ‘unsullied by elections’.
What are the Democrats and the Deep State afraid DOGE will find? Their river of black money, it appears.
When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury’s payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism.
Simple things were left blank:
Payment categories
Payment rationales
Basic audit controls
The kind of fields any small business would require. The kind that let you track where money goes. The kind that stop a billion dollars of fraud. Every week.
You read that right: a billion dollars of fraud, every week. Of over $100 billion flowing to secret accounts without any form of identification, at least half of that was ‘unequivocal and obvious fraud’, Treasury officials admitted.
A billion dollars every week disappearing into accounts that shouldn't exist.
The kind of fraud that would shut down any bank in America. The kind that would land any business owner in federal prison […]
Almost a quarter [of government spending], vanishing into what auditors politely call “mismanagement.”
Enter the swamp creatures.
Nineteen Democratic state attorneys general filed suit. Not about the fraud. Not about the waste. Not about billions vanishing into accounts without SSNs. But about "protecting" the Treasury Department from its own Secretary.
A judge in New York responded with something unprecedented: an ex parte order blocking Treasury officials from accessing their own department's data. No warning. No chance to respond. No opportunity to present evidence. Just a wall between the people elected to fix the system and the system itself.
Think about what that means: The Secretary of the Treasury—effectively the CFO of the United States government—legally barred from seeing how money moves through his own department. The people's appointee blocked from viewing the people's accounts. Young coders mapping the missing controls ordered to stop looking.
The Dems and their deep state cronies and media lickspittles are clearly terrified. The American people are electrified.
Polls are showing Donald Trump’s early moves in office are yielding the highest approval ratings of either of his terms in the White House, a stark change from when he left office in early 2021 with the lowest support in his presidential career.
Overall, 53 percent of respondents approved of the job Trump was doing, according to a CBS News / YouGov poll conducted in early February.
The results of the poll, which come with a plus or minus 2.5 percent error margin, mark not only a greater share of support than Trump’s slice of the 2024 popular vote, but also a huge change from 2021, when he left office with just over 33 percent approval on a separate poll […]
The polling also suggests voters are supportive of key parts of the Trump agenda.
On immigration, where Trump is hoping to carrying out a mass expulsion and deport millions, 59 percent of respondents to the CBS poll approved.
With the illegal immigrants, the Dems are going to have to find a whole lot more dead people to vote for them at the midterms.
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