The roar you hear is the sound of the pumps that President Trump is using to drain the Swamp. The horrific disturbance echoing through Washington is the wailing of Democrats coming to the aid of the administrative state. Politicians in both parties, the uniparty, participated or stood by passively while vast sums of money were spent to develop and maintain the inefficient, bloated, regulation regurgitating, red-tape dispensing monolith we know as the bureaucracy.
During the election campaign, President Trump committed to reining in wasteful federal spending, cut costly and burdensome regulation, restore law and order, stop woke and weaponized government, and take a common sense approach to government. The only way he can fulfill his commitment is to reform the administrative state. Democrats will fight tooth and nail to save the bureaucracy. They have used the agencies and bureaus of the executive branch to pursue their agenda, dispense propaganda, and harass their opponents.
The FBI and other federal bureaus and agencies colluded with the Democrat Party to take down Trump. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by the administrative state and Democrats to defeat, impeach, and imprison President Trump. Government agencies also undermine the security and interests of the American people.
Progressives of the early 20th century gave birth to government bureaucracy as we know it today. They passed the 16th amendment, imposing an income tax on the American people in 1913. Government spending rose from $715 million in 1913 to $5.1 billion in 1921. Expansive government has been pushed on Americans with catchy branding like the New Deal, Great Society, and Green New Deal. In 1900 there were six government agencies. Today there are fifteen.
In 2024 the federal government spent $6.75 trillion with a deficit of $1.83 trillion. The cost to finance the country’s debt, which exceeds $36 trillion, is the third largest outlay of the budget behind Social Security and health care. The American people can no longer afford the size and scope of their government.
Regulations cost Americans between $2 and $3 trillion dollars annually. This is a hidden tax levied by government bureaucracy. Regulations permeate every sector of the economy and every aspect of society. Modest regulation and some government services are helpful, but monolithic bureaucracy removes the people’s liberty while it drains their treasury. President Reagan famously said, “Government is not the solution to the problem: government is the problem.” The people elected President Trump to solve the problems inspired by government.
Since the inauguration, Trump has fired numerous federal employees in moves that Politico calls an “extraordinary purge of officials Donald Trump has deemed adversarial to his interests. In recent days, the administration initiated a major reshuffling at the FBI, and last week, Trump fired numerous inspectors general across the federal government.” President Trump has identified federal employees who would undermine his agenda and dismissed them. This is neither extraordinary nor a purge. He is draining the Swamp.