Hey, Congress: Make government great again by turning Trumps reforms into law
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President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is accomplishing in weeks what conservatives have been talking about for decades.Already, DOGE has cut close to $1 billion in waste per day, dismantled the left-wing slush fund known formerly as USAID and is exposing the depths of the Deep State’s corruption — most recently the millions of taxpayer dollars that FEMA has been sending to hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants.Elon Musk and his team of 20-something-year-old tech geniuses will continue to whip up public outrage over Washington’s monstrous misspending.But they can’t defeat the Washington Leviathan all by themselves.Congressional Republicans must step up and root out corruption with the same urgency as the Trump administration.The good news: Republican leadership on the Hill seems to be on the same page as DOGE and prepared to cut waste, fraud and abuse in upcoming reconciliation and budget fights.Now, it is time to deliver. Permanently banning DEI from the federal government would be an excellent place to start.During his first week in office, President Donald Trump signed three executive orders to stop “affirmative action” in federal contracts, close federal agencies’ corrupt DEI departments and cancel the Biden administration’s discriminatory DEI practices.Each of these executive orders represents a huge victory for the Constitution and the American people, but if Congress doesn’t codify them into law, they could be reversed with the stroke of a pen.DOGE has already canceled more than 100 DEI contracts that were costing Americans more than $1 billion.To prevent any future administration from wasting American tax-dollars on these discriminatory programs, Congress should move quickly to consider the Dismantle DEI Act,which Rep.
Michael Cloud and Sen.Eric Schmitt introduced this month.Reforming federal civil-service laws should be on the table, too.On his first day in office, Trump made it a priority to “terminat...