Elon Musk called this the “biggest news of the day!”

On Wednesday night President Trump signed a new presidential action titled:  Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative.

The biggest news today should probably be about one of the Executive Orders from yesterday evening.

Trust me, it’s big.

The President just authorized DOGE to start cutting regulations pic.twitter.com/ViglCWY1H3

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) February 20, 2025

President Trump just authorized the DOGE Team to focus on “the deconstruction of the overbearing and burdensome administrative state.”

The order gives government agency heads 60 days to identify the following classes of regulations:

(i) unconstitutional regulations and regulations that raise serious constitutional difficulties, such as exceeding the scope of the power vested in the Federal Government by the Constitution;
(ii) regulations that are based on unlawful delegations of legislative power;
(iii) regulations that are based on anything other than the best reading of the underlying statutory authority or prohibition;
(iv) regulations that implicate matters of social, political, or economic significance that are not authorized by clear statutory authority;
(v) regulations that impose significant costs upon private parties that are not outweighed by public benefits;
(vi) regulations that harm the national interest by significantly and unjustifiably impeding technological innovation, infrastructure development, disaster response, inflation reduction, research and development, economic development, energy production, land use, and foreign policy objectives; and
(vii) regulations that impose undue burdens on small business and impede private enterprise and entrepreneurship.
(b) In conducting the review required by subsection (a) of this section, agencies shall prioritize review of those rules that satisfy the definition of “significant regulatory action” in Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993 (Regulatory Planning and Review), as amended.
(c) Within 60 days of the date of this order, agency heads shall provide to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget a list of all regulations identified by class as listed in subsection (a) of this section.
(d) The Administrator of OIRA shall consult with agency heads to develop a Unified Regulatory Agenda that seeks to rescind or modify these regulations, as appropriate.

This follows President Trump’s executive order in January named “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation,” which calls for agencies to identify and eliminate ten existing regulations for each new regulation created. 

“The ever-expanding morass of complicated Federal regulation imposes massive costs on the lives of millions of Americans, creates a substantial restraint on our economic growth and ability to build and innovate, and hampers our global competitiveness. Despite the magnitude of their impact, these measures are often difficult for the average person or business to understand, as they require synthesizing the collective meaning not just of formal regulations but also rules, memoranda, administrative orders, guidance documents, policy statements, and interagency agreements that are not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, further increasing compliance costs and the risk of costs of non-compliance,” the order states.

It is the policy of my Administration to significantly reduce the private expenditures required to comply with Federal regulations to secure America’s economic prosperity and national security and the highest possible quality of life for each citizen.

The order requires that “Unless prohibited by law, whenever an executive department or agency (agency) publicly proposes for notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new regulation, it shall identify at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed.”

It further requires that “any new incremental costs associated with new regulations shall, to the extent permitted by law, be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least 10 prior regulations.”

Agency heads are directed to ensure that the total incremental cost of any new regulations “shall be significantly less than zero.”

The Office of Management and Budget Director is directed to oversee and set guidance on new regulations under the new law.

The President has long committed to and campaigned on deregulation to foster economic growth and prosperity.

In 2017, President Trump signed a similar executive order, requiring agencies to eliminate “at least two prior regulations” before implementing a new one. Biden revoked Trump’s past deregulation order on his first day in office in 2021.

The White House issued the following fact sheet explaining the new executive order:

ELIMINATING 10 REGULATIONS FOR EACH NEW REGULATION ISSUED: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to unleash prosperity through deregulation.

• The Order requires that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed.
• The Director of the Office of Management and Budget will ensure standardized measurement and estimation of regulatory costs.
• It requires that for fiscal year 2025, the total incremental cost of all new regulations, including repealed regulations, be significantly less than zero.

HALTING THE REGULATORY ONSLAUGHT: President Trump will halt the job killing and inflation-driving regulatory blitz of the Biden Administration.

• The Biden Administration imposed a historic $1.7 trillion in costs on the American people.
• Overregulation stops American entrepreneurship, crushes small business, reduces consumer choice, discourages innovation, and infringes on the liberties of American citizens.
  • It also contributes to the high cost of living, including by driving up energy prices.

BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESS:  President Trump’s first Administration undertook the most aggressive and successful regulatory reduction effort in history.

• In his first term, President Trump asked the agencies to eliminate two regulations for each one new regulation issued.  Not only was this 2-for-1 goal achieved, the first Trump Administration eliminated five and a half regulations for everyone new regulation issued.

• This Executive Order builds on President Trump’s previous success to improve daily lives of the American people by reducing unnecessary, burdensome, and costly Federal regulations.

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The Trump administration is making good on its promise to drain the swamp and restore law and order, as Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired Pamela Hicks from her role as Chief Counsel of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, President Trump made it clear last week that he would eliminate all Biden-appointed U.S. Attorneys who contributed to the weaponization of the justice system.

In a powerful statement, Trump wrote on Truth Social:

“Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of ALL remaining “Biden Era” U.S. Attorneys. We must “clean house” IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence. America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System – THAT BEGINS TODAY!”

The move rattled left-wing operatives embedded in the DOJ, who have used their positions to undermine the rule of law and protect corrupt Democrats.

According to NBC News, one fired U.S. attorney received an official termination letter from Trent Morse, the deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, which read:

“At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as U.S. Attorney is terminated, effective immediately.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi wasted no time in carrying out Trump’s mission of restoring a fair and impartial Justice Department, leading to Hicks’ immediate dismissal.

“Earlier today, I was served official notice from the Attorney General of the United States that I was being removed from my position as the Chief Counsel of ATF and my employment with the Department of Justice terminated,” Hicks wrote in her LinkedIn post.

She continued, “I have had the privilege of serving in the federal civil service for almost 28 years, including 23 as an attorney for the Department of Justice. Serving as ATF Chief Counsel has been the highest honor of my career and working with the people at ATF and throughout the Department has been a pleasure. I thank my colleagues for their friendship and partnership over the years.”

Despite the flowery farewell, Hicks’ tenure at ATF under Biden’s administration saw increased crackdowns on lawful gun owners while ignoring the real crime wave sweeping the country.

Her departure marks a step in restoring a justice system that serves the American people rather than the radical left’s anti-Second Amendment agenda.

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Yesterday, President Donald Trump made a statement that has shaken the political foundations of the

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The Founding Fathers expected elected legislators to remain closest to the sovereign people in both interests and affection. Those great men got many things right, but boy did they get that one wrong.

“Suppose you were an idiot,” literary legend Mark Twain once wrote. “And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Nonetheless, according to a Gallup poll conducted Feb. 3-16, those beleaguered legislators may thank President Donald Trump for a 70 percent increase in their approval rating since Jan. 17, three days before the president’s inauguration.

Of course, one need not break out the champagne flutes just yet. After all, that approval rating could hardly have fallen much lower.

On Jan. 17, Gallup showed Congress with a 17 percent approval rating. In the latest poll, that number jumped to 29 percent.

Nor should we overstate the significance of Trump dragging unpopular legislators kicking and screaming toward respectability.

Recent history shows that Congress’ abysmal approval rating generally spikes when new presidents take office.

President Barack Obama carried Congress from 20 percent approval in Dec. 2008 to a high of 39 percent in March 2009. The same phenomenon occurred during Trump’s first administration and again under President Joe Biden.

Moreover, one might suspect that the most informed patriots in Trump’s MAGA movement would count themselves with the 71 percent.

After all, the best one can say about Congress is that so far it has done the bare minimum that Trump voters expect and has imposed no insurmountable obstacles to the president’s agenda.

For instance, Senate Republicans had no more than three defectors when they confirmed Trump’s most important Cabinet nominees. And those three “no” votes occurred during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s January confirmation.

Since then, MAGA has imposed substantial pressure on GOP senators who might otherwise have voted with the establishment.

Billionaire Nicole Shanahan, 2024 running mate for former independent presidential candidate and now Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made a very public pledge to fund primary challenges to any senator who voted against Kennedy’s nomination.

Meanwhile, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act. But it has done little else of note.

Congress, of course, has spent decades cementing its place as the federal government’s least-popular branch.

Here, for instance, is a clip showing hundreds of legislators waving Ukraine flags on the floor of Congress:

Dear Ukraine flag-waving American politicians who wrote blank checks to fund the war…

Where is the $100 billion of US military aid that went missing?!?

– The American taxpayers

CC: @DOGE pic.twitter.com/vQrHk1Jiy0

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 19, 2025

Furthermore, now that Trump ally Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X and head of the president’s Department of Government Efficiency, has effectively exposed Washington, D.C., as one giant fraud-riddled crime scene, one must ask how many legislators in both major parties knew about the fraud and even profited from it.

Thus, the Founders’ vision of a representative republic guided by legislators who worked for the people has not materialized.

For the time being, however, one may focus on the positive by acknowledging, first, that the major impediments to Trump’s agenda have come from the judiciary and the corrupt bureaucracy rather than from Congress, and second, that GOP legislators thus far have at least done the bare minimum that MAGA has demanded.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said she will not remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office.

Hochul made the announcement at a press conference in her office in Midtown.

“After careful consideration, I have determined that I will not commence removal proceedings at this time,” she told reporters.

“ My strong belief is that the will of the voters and the supremacy and sanctity of democratic elections preclude me from any other action,” Hochul said.

“I cannot deny the people of this great city the power to make this decision for themselves.”

Governor Kathy Hochul has chosen not to remove Mayor Eric Adams, instead leaving the decision to New York City voters. pic.twitter.com/xvHCflsOXR

— Timcast News (@TimcastNews) February 20, 2025

Nevertheless, Hochul said she would be implementing a range of measures intended to limit his executive authority.

He responded to her announcement by declaring there is “no legal basis” for limiting his authority.

“I have told the governor, as we have done in the past, that I am willing to work with her to ensure faith in our government is strong,” Adams said.

“I look forward to continuing those conversations.”

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