I wonder if people are aware of what happened in the first 10 days of the inauguration that shook the world.
"Already what has been uncovered and stopped is for the ages...The United States has plugged a scandalous spending leakage at a rate of $4 billion per day...thanks to DOGE.
"That appears to be just the beginning. Agencies and funding sources are being shut down by the day and hour. The whole spending machine was shut down for a few days before a federal judge intervened. Even that did not stop the push to shut down the spigots: It took a second judge to intervene and finally restart it all. Even then, it was just the beginning.
"What is called the "deep state" has never faced such disruption.
"The excitement began minutes after the inauguration, when Musk's team, tasked by Trump...unfurled a plan that had long since been in the works but never announced. The team installed sofa beds on the fifth floor of the Office of Personnel Management and tossed out the chief of staff. The plan was to work 24/7 to get the job done, never leaving the offices.
"They gained access to the computer system and sent a memo to 2.3 million federal government employees. It invited all of them to resign immediately and get eight months of severance. They need only hit the reply and type "resign." The expectation going into this was that 10 percent would flee, but it could be more. We are still waiting for the numbers.
"All the while, the Trump administration was issuing executive orders, more than 300 in...10 days. It froze regulations. It froze spending. It issued a universal fatwa against all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and abolished "affirmative action"--all while heralding the single principle of nondiscrimination. It proclaimed that no government agency may ever again tell private media and social media accounts how to operate, either directly or indirectly through third-party cutouts. It banned the absurdities of the transgender movement and made adolescent mutilation illegal.
Next, they targeted the spigot spilling so much money it was creating $1 trillion in debt every 100 days: the Department of the Treasury.
The current acting head, David A. Lebryk had recently been promoted on Jan. 20. "His former boss [had been] a Nigerian émigré named Wally Adeyemo, who had at one time been head of the Obama Foundation... Lebryk absolutely refused to turn over the passwords. After what was said to be a shouting match, he resigned on the spot. Then Musk's crew took control of the passwords to the system that was sending out $6 trillion on auto-pay.
"This action generated panicked headlines in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal... When regular people think about this, they start asking serious questions. Why is it not a normal thing for the new administration to be in control of the spending system?
"Most likely, it is shocking simply because it has never happened.
"There will be more court challenges, claims, and counterclaims, but mainly we can look forward to an information flood of finding out precisely how our tax dollars have been used for so many years... This is in many ways the ultimate nightmare of any entrenched bureaucracy that has been unburdened by accountability for a very long time.
"No one can say for sure how this story ends, but we are getting an intuition. The Trump administration, barring some unforeseen disaster, is well positioned to go down in history as the regime that saved the country from secret and systematic pillaging...
"This time...the people are really taking over from an elite class that has enjoyed unchecked rule in the Western world for all of living memory."
src: https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/10-days-that-shook-the-world-5803395 -- by Jeffrey A. Tucker