A New Direction in Washington
By Sen. John Thune
In the first two weeks since President Trump took the oath of office, the U.S. Senate has moved to confirm his Cabinet as swiftly as possible. Despite Democrats’ obstruction, we have been able to confirm eight nominees within 10 days of President Trump’s inauguration. These individuals are on the job, and the Senate is hard at work to get more of President Trump’s team into place.
The first order of business was the president’s national security team. At a time of global instability, President Trump’s promise of restoring peace through strength is a needed change in direction from the last four years.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made it clear that every decision he makes will be rooted in advancing America’s interests. Under Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, our borders will be secure. The Pentagon is once again focused on warfighting, not woke distractions, under the leadership of Secretary Pete Hegseth. And Director John Ratcliffe is intent on returning the CIA to its core mission.
Energy is another top priority for the Trump administration. On his first day in office, President Trump took a number of actions to restore American energy dominance and put a stop to the anti-energy policies of his predecessor. America has the resources to be energy dominant, but we have to start saying “yes” to American energy.
President Trump has assembled a team committed to removing unnecessary barriers to American energy production. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will restore a multiple-use approach to public lands management and leverage America’s resources for a safe and more prosperous future. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin shares the president’s commitment to easing regulations, and he brings a collaborative approach to an agency that has often lacked it in the last four years.
President Trump has brought a new direction to Washington. It’s needed. The Biden administration demonstrated weakness around the world, and its open-border policies led to years of crisis at the southern border and in many communities across the country. The Biden administration’s hostility toward conventional energy set our energy security on a dangerous path, and we were already beginning to see the warning signs of a future energy crisis.
President Trump and his team have a lot of work to do, and I look forward to working with them toward a more secure and prosperous America.
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So what is going on with DOGE? Musk now has access to the US Treasury payable software system, and all of the information that goes along with it? Musk and Trump to shutdown US AID, which was created by act of congress. Who died and made Musk President, and what about his security clearances, or lack thereof? Seriously, is there a fire sale going on with the United States Federal Government? What happens when Musk encrypts the whole system? Checks and balances Senator Thune, checks and balances.
Freezing Federal funding and actually looking at where tax dollars are going is one of the best opening moves of Trump 2.0
Nobody “made Musk President”.
Trump is simply using Musk and his team to provide him with resources to provide proper oversight to the Executive branches under his authority.
*Seriously, is there a fire sale going on with the United States Federal Government?”
Nope. That sale closed on Jan 20, when mumblin-stumblin joe was shown the door.
So it seems clear that Elon Musk, someone who has not been vetted by the United States Senate, and does not have a national security clearance, and is hiring whatever staffers he so desires, who also have not been vetted and also do not have security clearances, doesn’t cause the least bit of concern here on this website. Going further, it appears fine with the commentators above that Mr. Musk will be putting our currency on block chain programming, and that the millions of accounts payable computer files maintained by the U.S. Department of Treasury have now been downloaded to a private server in California; such files containing social security numbers, etc.
Most of Trumps fans don’t care about anything factual. As long as they think he’s “owning the libs” he gets a carte blanche.
Logic and principals are about gone in the party, instead rage and revenge against invented slights rule supreme.