Not a sentence said by a Democrat these days doesn’t have a subject, a verb and “constitutional crisis.”
President Trump wanting to halt spending while he reviews a government in massive debt is an “assault on Democracy,” a “circumvention of Congress” and, in typical understatement, an “executive coup.”
Balderdash.
While Trump must jump through certain hoops to offer buyouts or pare down departments, it was never the Founders’ intention for career government employees to outrank the president.
As Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70, “energy in the executive is the leading character in the definition of good government.”
It’s the job of the president to drive the government forward, not allow it to become an unelected blob that controls every aspect of our lives.
Elon Musk noted Tuesday that if the executive can’t act, “then we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy.”
Which is where Democrats want to live, since they’ve spent years seeding the bureaucracy.
They want to ensure elections don’t matter.
But there are three branches of government, not four. Trump has said he’ll abide by court rulings, as he should, but we are confident he will eventually prevail — or at least get Congress to let him, say, fold USAID into the State Department permanently or shut down the Department of Education.
The bureaucracy doesn’t get to decide.
This is not a constitutional crisis.
This is a constitutional lesson.
