The courts are swift and furious to stop President Trump’s efforts to streamline the federal government.

It was illegal for a federal judge in San Francisco to suspend the administration’s plan to fire even probation employees on Friday. The Supreme Court upheld Trump’s ability to freeze foreign aid. Another ruling last week allowed changes to the president’s International Development Agency (USAID) structure and staffing as a federal court lifted the restraining order.

Then there are 14 attorney generals who lost to court to prevent the agency’s assessment of reorganization, downsizing, waste, fraud and abuse elimination. As Judge Tanya Chatkin pointed out, they were all Democrats who claimed without evidence of harm that they could not even carry out reforms that did not require Congressional permission.

There is a two-party agreement that the federal government has waste, why is all this hysterics from state authorities? Well, one, the last remaining trustworthy constituency of the Democrats is a civil servant who meets the funds of the campaign, attends rallies, canvas neighborhoods, and wears t-shirts.

These civil servants create more than workers than the private sector, strengthen employment protection, actually get free from accountability, and bring lifelong benefits to Cadillac.

The threat of protests, street violence is exposed to Chuck Schumer’s chant, and Elizabeth Warren’s high-pitched rant has something to do with protecting their most favorable constituencies. It’s like a kind of perverted collective defense agreement. Reforms that affect public unions can lead to weakening the power of others, like teacher unions.

It would write about the disasters of the central planners and the left.

Democrats at the state level are hyperventilating because they fear that physical trains will return to their jurisdiction. Many of the top complaints about government ministry efficiency (DOGE) are states with the worst economy, the most public debt and the most bloated budgets with the most generous welfare programs.

It is or is included in the jurisdiction of the sanctuary of the illegal actor because it is likely.

This is the reality. There is no evidence that their funds will be dramatically cut or that the money will not be repatriated to their state. In fact, a lot of that should be. They have just been baptized by top-down government and corrosive statistical cultures that want the easiest money to pay for costs that the state legislature is not ready to handle.

However, reducing the size of the federal government is a matter of state rights. What Trump is trying to do is restore federalism.

The federal government, and therefore federal taxpayers, were not intended to be crutches in states that were not properly prepared for their spending.

Remember that there was no formal national income tax until ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913. Now is the time to return to a strict constitutional approach to spending and taxation. It means a strict interpretation of the “necessary and appropriate provisions” of the Constitution, as Alexander Hamilton argued.

These reforms should be framed as the right play of the nation by Republicans. If they care about the constitution, the governor and state legislators should be excited that Trump is trying to stop Washington from hitting the place it hurts.

The federal government should be reduced, and states should not be forced to participate in some sort of hungry game because of money tied up by Washington’s regulatory strings. It gives too much power to the federal government.

Our founders explicitly warned against the tyrannical central government, but we acquiesced to live for a long time with this constitutional crisis. The growth of federal power has now taken over the state’s resources and the pockets of the public for over a century. The rise in federal spending over the past 50 years since the failed great social programme failed has led the nation to be on the verge of bankruptcy.

More money means more programs. As programs increase, more people will manage them. It is a vicious cycle that comes with the by-product of reduced transparency and accountability. The federal government has become an employment program managed by union bosses who protect workers at every cost to Americans.

No one is entitled to government work. There is generally no right to employ it, let alone taxpayer-funded government employment. If you have the ability, you will find an alternative task.

The hysterical responses from the Democrats and the media are our qualification association. It is that qualification that has weakened the nation and allowed it to creep towards both socialism and Gomorrah. It also undermines our concept of constitution and federalism.

All budgets, all institutions, and all programs need to be scrutinized for effectiveness and waste. Those who oppose it are promoting an already existing constitutional crisis. Washington’s unelected bureaucracy runs through the country from above.

Elon Musk is correct: if you can’t control the administrative state, there is a cost and there is no point in having an election. The Republic cannot last. Perhaps that’s what Democrats today want anyway.

Tom Basile is the author of Newsmax, a conservative columnist, speaker, Tough Sell: Targing The Media War in Iraq and host of Newsmax’s “Now Now,” a former Bush administration official. x Follow him at @tom_basile. For more information, please visit www.tombasile.com

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