While these decisions are important, the most long-lasting move the president made was to offer 2 million federal employees a chance to resign with eight months of severance pay. The deadline to accept the offer was originally February 6, but it was delayed by a federal judge.
Most federal employees received the offer, except for postal workers and various military and national security officials. As of Friday, 65,000 federal workers had accepted Trump’s offer. If this buyout is eventually implemented, Forbes magazine reports it “will become the largest single job reduction in U.S. history.”
The president is also reforming the Department of Justice, which had become politically weaponized during the Biden administration. The Justice Department fired a dozen career prosecutors who worked on the politicized cases involving Trump.
The president also fired eight “senior FBI officials” who were involved in the weaponization of the January 6 cases. In addition, the names of over 5,000 FBI agents involved in the January 6 investigation were submitted to the Department of Justice.
While the names of these individuals will not be released to the public, the president emphasized that “some” of them will be fired.
Due to his interaction with the Biden Justice Department, the president noted that “I got to know a lot about that world, and we had some corrupt agents, and those people are gone, or they will be gone, and it will be done quickly and very surgically.”
Regarding the Biden holdovers, “You’re Fired,” has a nice ring to it.
— Jeff Crouere, Feb. 11 Newsmax column
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has been rotting from within for years.
Corruption, political bias, and a two-tiered justice system have become the norm, turning what was once the gold standard of legal integrity into a weaponized tool of the left.
Americans have watched in horror as political operatives embedded within the DOJ have targeted conservatives while giving a free pass to left-wing allies.
The Biden administration has turned the department into a personal attack dog, shielding its own while hunting down anyone who dares stand in its way.
President Trump understands that half-measures are beyond insufficient.
To clarify, if a surgeon discovers a malignancy, he doesn’t leave selected portions of parts it behind. His goal, and rightfully so, is to completely save the entire human body.
It may well be argued that’s exactly what Trump is doing now.
He has ordered the by termination of every single Biden-appointed U.S. attorney.
It’s not just about firing a few bad apples, but rather about gutting a system which has been systematically weaponized against Americans.
The DOJ, in its current form, cannot be trusted to fairly administer . . . justice.
— Jim Renacci, Feb. 19 Newsmax column
A February 20 front-page lead Wall Street Journal article titled “President Acts Swiftly to Upend World Order” not only evidences a leftward drifting editorial trend but additionally, perhaps unintentionally, invites consideration regarding why such a shakeup is urgently warranted.
[…]While the Wall Street Journal has it correct in claiming that Trump is finally disrupting the dystopian world order that he and we inherited, let’s be gratefully optimistic that he appears to be succeeding.
— Larry Bell, Feb. 25 Newsmax column
We should emerge from the essential work of ending wasteful spending with the opportunity to focus a leaner budget on work our federal government needs to carry out and that Americans want it to carry out — including caring for our national parks more effectively than in the past.
You know who ought to understand this opportunity better than most Americans?
Donald Trump.
He donated his salary for the first three months of his presidency to preservation projects at Antietam National Battlefield. The president’s gift of $78,333 prompted others to give. The $263,545 raised was spent to restore a farmstead on the battlefield and to rebuild nearly a mile of decaying rail fences along the Hagerstown Pike, scene of some of the most intense fighting of the Civil War.
— Jack Warren, Feb. 28 Newsmax column
While Democrats offer theatrical opposition, Trump has launched the greatest start to a presidential term in our nation’s history. In fact, over the past six weeks, the Trump administration has saved our union by acting with lightning speed to reshape the federal government.
In the last six weeks, President Trump has issued 79 executive orders covering a range of vital issues. For example, on Saturday, President Trump signed an executive order making English the official language of the United States, following the lead of more than 30 states.
— Jeff Crouere, March 3 Newsmax column