Leftists are Winning on the Two Most Important Issues
Make no mistake, President Trump is doing an extraordinary job under extremely difficult circumstances. His progress in closing the border, renegotiating one-sided trade deals, shutting down DEI, closing the Ukraine money spigot, restoring women’s sports to women, cutting off funding to radical universities, banning genital mutilation or castration of minor children and receiving commitments of over $5 trillion in new U.S. investments from companies and countries has been nothing short of remarkable.
The pace of Trump’s progress and breadth of accomplishments have been breathtaking.
However, we need to also recognize that significant impediments to the kind of systemic change the U.S. needs to avoid a societal and economic collapse remain firmly in place, and Trump is running out of options.
In fact, there are three issues that supersede everything else on the Trump agenda because they directly impact the long-term future of America. Namely, mass deportation of illegal aliens, exposure and elimination of government waste, fraud and abuse, and restoration of election integrity.
While the verdict on election rigging is out, it’s becoming increasingly clear the president will not be able to deport illegal aliens in numbers even close to what he anticipated. Perhaps worse, there will be no significant cuts in bloated, useless Deep State bureaucracies or their budgets.
Let me be clear: it’s not from lack of trying.
Since reentering the White House in January 2025, Trump has aggressively pursued those two cornerstone objectives: executing mass deportation of illegal aliens and significantly reducing the size and spending of the federal government. While he has taken bold steps in this regard, the outcomes have been frustrating and mostly non-productive, as the left unleashes a crap storm of legal challenges, logistical hurdles, and public criticism.
Mass Deportations: Ambitious Plans Meet Stiff Leftist Resistance
President Trump’s second term has seen a marked escalation in immigration enforcement. On his first day back in office, he signed Executive Order 14159, titled “Protecting The American People Against Invasion,” which expanded the use of expedited removal and allowing for the deportation of individuals without a court hearing. The order also increased penalties for undocumented immigrants failing to register, and it denied federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions.
The response from woke leftists was swift and punitive. The city of San Francisco, along with 16 other sanctuary jurisdictions, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On April 24, 2025, Judge William Orrick issued an injunction prohibiting the administration from denying funds to these jurisdictions or making the granting of funds subject to conditions based on their sanctuary status.
In an effort to deport Venezuelan illegals associated with violent street gang Tren de Aragua, Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expedite the deportation. In J.G.G. v. Trump, a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued a restraining order against the deportations, emphasizing the need for due process.
Further, Judge Fernando Rodriguez ruled that the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act was unlawful, stating that the statute applies only in cases of declared war or armed invasion, not to criminal activity by non-state actors.
Finally, the Supreme Court upheld a halt on deportations under this act, requiring the administration to provide detainees with an opportunity to challenge their removal.
The administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for approximately 350,000 Venezuelans was blocked by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen. The judge found the move threatened irreparable harm to individuals and was likely motivated by unconstitutional animus. The ruling allowed TPS holders to maintain their legal status while the case proceeded. Fortunately, the Supreme Court recently reversed this ruling.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked the administration’s plan to terminate parole status for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The judge ruled that mass parole terminations could not proceed without case-by-case review, granting a reprieve to over 500,000 individuals.
You see what is going on here? In every one of these cases, and many others, the leftist activist judge has one goal: flood the legal system with hordes of illegal aliens demanding due process, knowing full well there is no practical way to process 20 million people through the courts in a reasonable time frame. If Trump carried out his mass deportation strategy, it’s estimated that the backlog would extend out to 16 years.
Naturally, leftists hope that Trump will be long gone by then, and a Democrat president can push amnesty through Congress. At the very least, the number of cases would overwhelm the courts, and the will to track these people down will eventually fade.
Federal Bureaucracy: Downsizing Efforts and Fiscal Implications
The second critical area where President Trump has faced unwavering resistance is the effort to reduce the size of the federal government and eliminate waste fraud and abuse.
Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) via Executive Order, aiming to streamline federal operations. DOGE teams were embedded in agencies to oversee hiring, spending, and policy implementation. The initiative sought to eliminate non-essential functions and reduce waste.
Since its inception, DOGE under Elon Musk has identified $170 billion in estimated savings. However, to date, none of the DOGE cuts have been codified. In fact, a meager $9 billion in cuts added to the “Big Beautiful Bill” hit a brick wall In Congress, stymied by weak-kneed Republicans afraid of losing their A-list Washington party invitations.
If I were Elon, I would be completely disillusioned. He entered the endeavor with pure intentions, and instead, one of his businesses is in shambles because woke leftist terrorists are trashing Teslas and firebombing dealerships.
Budget Cuts and Agency Overhauls
The administration proposed a 23% reduction in non-defense discretionary spending. Leftists were outraged over cuts that threatened the viability of various welfare programs, particularly those serving illegal aliens, drug addicts and deadbeats.
Additionally, Trump signed an executive order eliminating several federal entities, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Department of Education as part of his effort to reduce government overreach.
On February 11, 2025, the president signed an Executive Order directing large-scale reductions in the federal workforce across 22 agencies. A coalition of labor unions, non-profit organizations, and local governments immediately filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court. Judge Susan Illston granted a temporary restraining order on May 9, halting the layoffs and stating that significant changes to federal agencies require congressional collaboration.
In February 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) terminated approximately 880 employees from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including scientists and engineers. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that OPM lacked the authority to order these firings.
The Trump administration’s attempt to lay off a significant portion of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workforce faced legal opposition from employee unions and advocacy groups. They argued that the mass terminations would dismantle the agency’s statutory mission and violate due process. As a result, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a temporary restraining order, halting further terminations and preventing the destruction or removal of sensitive data.
On April 30th, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Trump administration must pay out $2 billion in wasteful USAID foreign aid money.
Most recently, U.S. District Judge Myong Joun blocked the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle the Department of Education and ordered the reinstatement of hundreds of laid off federal workers. Joun called the moved “a blatant end-run around needed congressional approval.”
You’ll notice that almost every judge references “Congressional approval” as justification for prohibiting Trump from firing employees that report to him. This is purposeful. The judges know there isn’t a snowball’s chance of Congress wading into these issues and drawing the ire of leftists.
What This Means in the Long Run
As I have repeated time and again, as a country, we are broke. Every so-called “compassionate” initiative is paid for with borrowed money, mostly from Japan or China. The issues created by a runaway deficit and national debt are no longer theoretical. As the debt and deficits rise in tandem, the bond vigilantes are driving up interest rates on treasuries, which in turn raises the interest on the debt to unsustainable levels, creating a kind of death spiral that likely ends in a sovereign debt crisis.
Most Americans understand this, which is why President Trump was elected in the first place. However, if the issues of deportation and bloated bureaucracies are now settled because the courts have spoken and there is no further recourse, then our fate economically is surely sealed. We cannot afford the luxury of the waste, fraud and abuse we have tolerated and leftists have promoted for decades.
We have our chance, but spineless Republicans in Congress are blowing it in real time.
