As he noted on X, this is consistent with President Trump’s instructions, though we do not know what those instructions actually were. It could be as simple as to find a way to drastically reduce the federal workforce legally, in which case this should do the trick.

His post:

Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.

Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.

Considering the simplicity of the demand and the ease by which federal employees can save their jobs, it seems like a solid plan. After all, Musk isn’t going to be reading the millions of emails he receives, though the DOGE team may be able to filter out standard responses to isolate the ones that are aggressive in nature.

On the surface, this appears to be a straightforward way to cut the workforce. Many will not reply. Others may think nobody will read them and could reply nonsensically or angrily.

Whatever happens, this is a good move to figure out who’s interested in continuing to work for the federal government and who isn’t cut out for it.

Air Force General Charles “CQ” Brown Jr has been a vocal advocate of DEI — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — which both President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have sworn to remove from the United States military.

After firing Brown, President Trump announced the nomination of Air Force Lt. General Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

As President Trump noted on Truth Social:

I want to thank General Charles “CQ” Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family.

Today, I am honored to announce that I am nominating Air Force Lieutenant General Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Caine is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a “warfighter” with significant interagency and special operations experience.

During my first term, Razin was instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS caliphate. It was done in record setting time, a matter of weeks. Many so-called military “geniuses” said it would take years to defeat ISIS. General Caine, on the other hand, said it could be done quickly, and he delivered.

Despite being highly qualified and respected to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the previous administration, General Caine was passed over for promotion by Sleepy Joe Biden. But not anymore! Alongside Secretary Pete Hegseth, General Caine and our military will restore peace through strength, put America First, and rebuild our military. Finally, I have also directed Secretary Hegseth to solicit nominations for five additional high level positions, which will be announced soon. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Caine is a career F-16 pilot who served on active duty and in the National Guard, and was most recently the associate director for military affairs at the CIA, according to his military biography. His military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs.

This is the type of warfighter the U.S. military needs.

“I’m not happy with Boeing. It takes them a long time to do Air Force One. We gave that contract out a long time ago. It was a fixed-price contract,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “And I’m not happy with the fact that it’s taken so long. And we may do something else. We may go and buy a plane or get a plane or something. But I’m not happy with the fact that it’s taken Boeing so long. There’s no excuse for it.”

Trump dismissed the option of buying Airbus planes as an alternative to Boeing while talking to reporters.

“No, I would not consider Airbus over Boeing,” he said. “I could buy one that was used and convert it. I could buy one from another country, perhaps, or get one from another country. So, we’re looking at other alternatives, because it’s taking Boeing too long.”

In 2018, the Trump administration signed a $3.9 billion contract to build two 747-8 planes that would serve as Air Force One aircraft, replacing the current 747-200 fleet.

The original delivery date was scheduled for December 2024. The deadline was pushed to at least 2027 and 2028. Boeing blamed the delays on labor constraints, changes in the designs, and supply chain issues.

“Our team is fighting through a very, very challenging program—two very complex airplanes,” Ted Colbert, who heads Boeing Defense, Space, and Security, said in July last year. “We’ve done a ton of investment in our workforce and training, efficiency, work on the factory floor.”

The project is now estimated to cost about $2 billion more than the initial budget. When the contract was signed in 2018, the White House said that the deal would save taxpayers more than $1.4 billion from the initially proposed $5.3 billion cost.

The Epoch Times reached out to Boeing for comment on Trump’s latest remarks but did not receive a reply by publication time.

Boeing Under Pressure

The new Boeing 747-8 aircraft are being designed as an airborne White House, set to be equipped with military-grade avionics, a self-defense suite, and advanced communications systems. The planes are expected to be capable of operating under extreme security situations, such as a nuclear war.

In December 2024, billionaire Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, visited Boeing.

Commenting on the visit, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said the company was working with the administration to speed up delivery while calling discussions with Musk “constructive.”

Last year, Musk criticized Boeing for its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, warning that these policies were putting passenger lives at risk.

His comments followed an incident involving a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft in which a door plug of the plane’s fuselage snapped off midair. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing and passengers were injured.

Boeing came under the scrutiny of multiple agencies such as the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board.

In February 2024, the company said it planned on reworking around 50 undelivered planes after a supplier notified it about engineering issues linked to fuselages.

An employee working at the supplier informed their manager that two holes in the planes may not have been drilled per requirements.

Last month, the company revealed it made 348 commercial airplane deliveries in 2024, down 34 percent from the previous year. Rival Airbus delivered 766 aircraft last year.

Boeing reported $66.51 billion in revenues in 2024, down 14 percent from 2023. Its net loss ballooned from $2.24 billion to $11.82 billion during this period.

“My team and I are focused on making the fundamental changes needed to fully recover our company’s performance and restore trust with our customers, employees, suppliers, investors, regulators, and all others who are counting on us,” Boeing President Kelly Ortberg said in January.

The Associated Press contributed to the report.

The problems in Ukraine, including the prolonging of the war, fall squarely on the collective shoulders of Volodymyr Zelensky, his disciples in European Union leadership, NATO, and the previous administration in the United States. Also, I edited the story that kept referencing Zelensky as “President Z,” replacing those with his actual name for clarity. Here’s the post…

(The Economic Collapse Blog)—All of a sudden, sending European ground troops into Ukraine has become a very hot topic.  In fact, the British are openly discussing the possibility of doing this quite soon.  Of course the Russians have already warned that if the British send ground troops into Ukraine, military targets inside the UK will become legitimate targets.  Needless to say, the moment the Russians start conducting military strikes inside the UK, the U.S. would be forced to intervene and we would be right on the brink of nuclear war.

The British must not do this. But they are so determined to demonstrate which side that they support in the feud between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky that they might do it anyway.

Global events are moving so rapidly that it is really difficult to keep up with everything that is happening.  Early on Wednesday, Zelensky accused President Trump of living in a “disinformation space” during a discussion with reporters…

“Unfortunately, President Trump, I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us, unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky told reporters early Wednesday.

Zelensky went on to explain why Trump is supposedly wrong about a number of things.

Did he not understand how Trump would react? If you want to get Trump on your side, you don’t say bad things about Trump.

Anyone that has been paying any attention for the past eight years should know this by now.

President Trump responded by absolutely shredding Zelensky on Truth Social…

Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle. The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation. On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is “MISSING.” He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden “like a fiddle.” A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only “TRUMP,” and the Trump Administration, can do. Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…..

This single social media post immediately caused a firestorm of controversy to erupt all over the globe.

And I don’t think that the damage that has been done will be easily repaired.

Zelensky can forget about having President Trump in his corner from this point forward.  Vice-President Vance just told the press that President Z has chosen “an atrocious way to deal with this administration”…

‘The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media … everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,’ said Vance during an exclusive interview in his West Wing office.

And many of President Trump’s most ardent supporters on social media are gleefully pointing out some of the ways that Zelensky has abused human rights over the past several years.  For example, the following was posted by the DC_Draino account on Twitter…

He’s in year 6 of his 5 year term

Declared martial law Feb 2022 and has banned elections since then

Banned 11 political parties

Passed law in 2022 to censor journalists and combined all news into 1 gov’t station

Journalists investigating his corruption get conscripted and thrown on the front lines to die

Even Saddam Hussein held elections!

On the other side, the corporate media in the United States has responded extremely negatively to Trump’s call for an election in Ukraine because they are concerned that “President Z” could be voted out of office…

Much more alarming is how the Europeans are responding to Trump’s comments.

I think that the British government hates Trump so much that they might be willing to deploy ground troops to Ukraine just to spite him.

And the British media is eagerly rallying public support for such a move.  For example, the following comes from a BBC article that was just published entitled “British Army ‘absolutely ready’ if ordered to deploy to Ukraine”…

The British Army has said it is ready to deploy to Ukraine if requested by the government.

This week, 2,500 UK troops from the Army’s high readiness force, the First Division, have been taking part in a large Nato exercise in Romania – on a training area just 16 miles (25km) from the border with Ukraine.

Although mobile phones have been banned on the exercise, most soldiers are aware that there are now initial discussions to send troops to Ukraine itself.

Wow.

And NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander just wrote an article for the Daily Mail in which he boldly declared that it was time for the UK to “make plans for conscription” because “Trump has left us no other choice”…

NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Sir Richard Shirreff, writing in the Daily Mail, said: “Though many will find it unthinkable, we must be prepared to call up our reservists – and make plans for conscription. Trump has left us no other choice.”

I am speechless.

So because Trump wants peace, the British have to hurry up and escalate the war so that peace won’t be possible?

What kind of madness is this? What do you think will happen if British troops really do get deployed to Ukraine? It won’t be pretty, I can tell you that.

In addition to hitting British military targets inside Ukraine, the Russians have already said that they will hit British military targets outside Ukraine. And then there will be full-blown war between Russia and a member of NATO.

At that point it would be impossible for the U.S. to stay out of the conflict and we would literally be on the verge of nuclear war.

But at this point the British are desperate, because they are absolutely determined to keep the Ukrainians from losing.  The Russians have conquered quite a bit more territory within the past ten days, and unless western troops intervene Ukraine’s front lines will continue to crumble…

While the eyes of the world are glued on the US-Russia Peace Process led by Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin, the war follows unabated with the same prospects as before: Russian Federation forces steamrolling the Ukrainian defenders.

In the last 10 days, a cursory search shows that Russia has conquered the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Dachnoye, Dzerzhinsk, Yasenovoye, Vodyanoye Vtoroye, Zelenoye Pole, Berezovka, Figolevka, Yampolovka and Sverdlikovo.

Everyone just needs to calm down.

But every time Zelensky badmouths our president, Trump is going to hit back even harder.

And that will just give the Europeans more motivation to consider sending in ground forces.

Of course that is exactly what Zelensky has been wanting all this time.  He has been searching for a way to get European troops to intervene.  So if he realizes that badmouthing Trump will help him achieve that goal, he may just throw all restraint to the wind and really start going for it.

In any event, we are now much closer to nuclear war, and that is certainly not good news for any of us.

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Republican Reps. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Andy Harris of Maryland, and others experienced just how Trump is shaking things up across Europe as they attended the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London this week.

The Daily Signal accompanied them as they engaged with European leaders and citizens.

“What’s loud and clear to me is that Europeans aren’t happy,” Norman said. “The people aren’t happy; the leaders are.”

“It’s like the United States: The people were not happy with Joe Biden and his policies. In England, the people are not happy with what’s going on with their leaders, with regulations, the price of living, and they’re willing to do something about it.”

Last week, Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks at an AI summit in Paris and the Munich Security conference in Germany. Vance took European nations to task for their regulatory environment on matters ranging from energy to speech to artificial intelligence, and he reasserted America’s national interests in U.S. foreign policy.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright had his turn to address a European crowd when he virtually joined the ARC conference and lambasted Europe’s energy policies. “Energy realism is critical if you want to have humanism,” he said, specifically addressing Vance’s critique of European energy policy.

Wright said what’s happening in Europe now is “lunacy.”

“This is impoverishing citizens for the delusion that this is somehow going to make the world a better place,” he said.

Harris told The Daily Signal he was “not surprised at what happened at the Munich Security Conference.”

“I mean, that’s the deep state of Europe,” he said.

“The bottom line is there are people who don’t believe that Western civilization is something to be prized, treasured, and developed,” Harris said.

“We have nothing to apologize for. We have the strongest economy. We have the strongest military. We’ve preserved freedom a couple of times in Europe, and we’re not going to stop doing that,” the Maryland lawmaker continued. In Europe, the Trump administration is making “a call for Western civilization to bring back the ideals of Western civilization and the success of Western civilization.”

“I think that was brought out at the conference,” Harris said, “and that’s the message that Donald Trump brings—the end of wokeism, economic security, low energy prices, and a nationalistic pride that precedes economic success.”

“Donald Trump is going to, once again, make the United States the leader of the free world,” he said.

“In general, I think that it’s reminding Europe that it’s time to get serious again,” Burlison told The Daily Signal. “We need to get serious about our manufacturing. We need to get serious about energy production, and we need to get serious about the threats to national security.”

Though many European elites in government have responded in dismay to the Trump administration’s message to Europe, the people the members of Congress met in London feel differently.

Hageman told The Daily Signal that Vance and Wright took “absolutely the right tack” in engaging with European nations over the past week.

“Energy security is national security,” the Wyoming congresswoman continued, “What you’re seeing of these European countries, and what the U.N. is demanding, is that we all live under energy poverty, and none of us believe in that. We believe in prosperity. I think that that’s exactly the message that Donald Trump and JD Vance are sending, and I think it’s what the European people want.”

“The government and the leadership in Europe for so long has been focusing on ‘net zero’ and carbon and global warming, and all of this nonsense,” Hageman said. “It’s costing their citizenry dearly, and they’re tired of it.”

For Hageman, the new sheriff in town is not only Trump, “the new sheriff in town is common sense, and getting back to what governments are supposed to be.”

“The ones that I’ve spoken with are happy that Trump is rolling back regulations and calling Europe out for not [doing so],” said Norman.

DOGE has been a buzzworthy topic in London as well. “With DOGE, Trump and [DOGE chief Elon] Musk are more than investigators. What have they done? They’ve just exposed where the money went.” Europeans are now starting to desire a thorough accounting of where their money has gone, Norman said.

“We can’t continue [on] the same path that’s put us in debt,” Norman said of the reckless spending. “And I think many Europeans feel the same way. They wanted to take the same path Donald Trump is taking, and go a different way.”

“We’ve wasted a lot of time and a lot of money on foolish things,” Burlison said of the West. “America, sadly, has led in some of these foolish wastes, like studying [critical race theory] and this woke ideology and climate. But I think that, given the problems that we’re facing today, Trump is kind of a wake-up call, and it’s kind of the sobering message that Europe and America really needed to hear.”

With tariffs and charting a new path for foreign policy, “Trump is sending a message: Europe has got to defend itself,” Norman said. “Their percentage [of gross domestic product] that they spend is minuscule [compare with] what we spend, and we got a bigger GDP. He’s putting the pressure on them. They’re going to have to make the decision about how to keep their countries safe, and I think it’s long time in coming.”

“You can tell, at least at this point, that they’re taking that seriously and kind of walking through what that would mean,” Burlison said of Trump’s policies. “So, I hope that England and the European countries that have been relying on America for so long recognize that America is taking things seriously, but we also need Europe to do so as well.”

Because of her interactions in London, Hageman thinks Britons are “coming around to the Trumpian point of view,” because European leaders are not changing a failed course.

“Instead of changing course, instead of fixing this mess they created, “ the Wyoming lawmaker said, European leaders “are telling all of you to shut up. That’s what’s happening in Europe, and that’s what JD Vance was calling out.”

Almost more than on any other issue, European leaders “made bad policy decisions on migration.”

“It has caused severe issues and problems within these communities throughout their countries, and their response isn’t to say we need to fix this. Their response is to say we’re going to make it illegal for you to point it out,” Hageman said. “I think that it is absolutely fair for JD Vance and all of us to stand up for our brethren, to stand up for our brothers and sisters in Europe and say we’re not going to allow you tyrants to get away with that.”

Whether at home or abroad, she said, “We’re going to stand up for the citizens, and we’re going to fight to make sure that they have a voice.”

In recent weeks, reports have surfaced citing Trump voters who reportedly feel “guilty” and “regretful” over their decision to support the president in the 2024 election after witnessing his flurry of executive actions, ranging from immigration to drastically cutting bureaucracy. Despite this, Trump’s overall approval rating remains above that of his first presidency, according to four recent polls.

A CBS News poll published on Feb. 9 revealed that Trump had his highest ever approval rating, with 53% of voters expressing approval. A majority of Americans, 51%, said they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 45% expressed disapproval, according to a SurveyUSA poll released Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a Morning Consult poll published Tuesday found that there were more Americans who expressed approval for Trump’s performance as president than those that said they disapprove. Of those surveyed, 50% said they approved of his performance while 47% said they disapproved. Moreover, a Napolitan News Service poll released on Feb. 14 found that Trump’s approval rating had climbed to 55% between Feb. 10 and Feb. 14, up from 51% the week prior.

Various Democrats and legacy media outlets have been critical of the surge in executive actions taken by Trump since he returned to the White House on Jan. 20, with one reporter at The New York Times calling the president’s recent undertakings an “executive power grab,” regarding his decision to fire several executive agency employees. Trump has also garnered backlash from some on left over his executive order to eliminate “wasteful” and “radical” diversity programs across the federal government, as well as his administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and drug trafficking across the southern border. Voters repeatedly ranked border security as one of the most important issues leading up to the 2024 presidential election.

Although Trump currently holds a plus-84 approval rating among Republicans, according to CNN’s Harry Enten, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stated in a segment on Tuesday that some Republican voters allegedly feel as though Trump’s actions are “indefensible.” Citing a report from The Wall Street Journal that quoted self-identified Trump voters who reportedly “regret” their candidate choice, Maddow said that there are “Republicans who can’t actually bear what Trump is doing.”

Other commentators, like CNN’s Abby Phillips, have instead said that Trump’s actions, particularly on immigration, reflect his campaign “promises made, promises kept,” while political analyst Mark Halperin said that Trump has gained popularity directly because of his fast-paced agenda.

The SurveyUSA poll surveyed 2,000 adults, and the data was collected from Feb. 13 to Feb. 16, while the Morning Consult poll was conducted between Feb. 14 and 16 among 2,217 registered voters. The Napolitan News Service poll surveyed 3,000 registered voters between Feb. 10 and 14, and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 1.8 percentage points.

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According to Fox News:

The executive order — which senior administration officials are calling a first of its kind and an attempt to ensure the government isn’t weaponized against the American people — will require agencies to submit a list to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within the next 60 days of all regulations that could violate the Constitution or could cause harm.

OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will spearhead the effort and evaluate regulations across the federal agencies, senior administration officials told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.

DOGE officials at federal agencies will gather an inventory of regulations that could violate the Constitution and then share them with OMB. After the 60 days, the OIRA will go through the list of regulations and make individual decisions on which are unconstitutional and will launch the process of repealing the regulations on a case-by-case basis, the senior administration officials said.

OIRA oversees executive branch regulations, while the newly created DOGE aims to eliminate government waste, fraud and spending.

Legacy media is, of course, trying to paint this as a power grab by the administration. But the argument is dramatically weakened by the fact that Democrats have exerted similar control over “independent” agencies for decades without a peep left-leaning media. Moreover, the control leveled by Democrats has always been to increase the scope of the “Nanny State” whereas President Trump’s order is to rein it in.

Many of the initiatives that the Trump administration seeks to undertake—such as constructing a wall along parts of the U.S. border with Mexico, removing illegal immigrants from the United States, and extending the lower income tax rates enacted in 2017—will require Congress to grant new funding.

Due to near-unanimous opposition from the Democratic Party, Republicans are seeking to use a budgetary process known as “reconciliation” to approve such funding, which would allow them to overcome procedural difficulties such as the Senate’s 60-vote cloture requirement that normally impedes most bills.

A reconciliation bill will only require a simple majority in both bodies of Congress to pass, which the Republicans currently hold.

“[The budget involves] securing the border, rebuilding our defense, and unleashing American energy. That starts this week with passing Chairman [Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)]’s budget,” wrote Thune on X, referring to the resolution sponsored by Graham, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee.

The reconciliation process requires each house of Congress to concurrently pass an identical “budget resolution” that establishes which areas of policy will see funding increases and, correspondingly, where spending will be cut. The Senate’s resolution calls for at least $325 billion in new spending on the U.S. military and homeland security matters, the latter of which includes immigration enforcement.

The reconciliation process cannot proceed unless either house capitulates and passes the other’s resolution, or a compromise is reached and a new resolution drafted.

Trump sent a “radical transparency about wasteful spending” memo Tuesday to federal agency heads, the latest in his and Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk’s war on federal waste.

Musk has encountered opposition and lawsuits from federal workers and Democrats, so this order could beef up his efforts for transparency as he roots through federal records and archives and seeks more details about cut programs.

“The United States Government spends too much money on programs, contracts, and grants that do not promote the interests of the American people,” Trump’s order said. “For too long, taxpayers have subsidized ideological projects overseas and domestic organizations engaged in actions that undermine the national interest.”

The order instructs federal agencies to make public the details of canceled contracts, grants and other federal spending. The order does tell agencies to abide by federal laws and to do so as they “deem appropriate to promote the policies of my Administration.”

Trump’s executive order Tuesday comes the same day that DOGE touted cutting $55 billion in federal spending. On top of that, a federal judge Tuesday ruled against a Democrat-led effort to get a temporary restraining order against Musk as he looks for more cuts.

That ruling, though, suggested Musk’s authority could be questioned on legal grounds, suggesting more legal battles for Musk and Trump down the road.

“The American people have seen their tax dollars used to fund the passion projects of unelected bureaucrats rather than to advance the national interest,” Trump’s order said. “The American people have a right to see how the Federal Government has wasted their hard-earned wages.”

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar noted on “CNN News Central” that Luntz runs numerous focus groups and that he has been talking to “a number of voters who were Hillary Clinton 2016, Joe Biden 2020 and then went for Trump in 2024.” When Keilar asked how these voters perceive Trump’s second term so far, Luntz responded, “pretty well,” emphasizing their appreciation for decisive action in Washington.

“They’re reacting to it because they love the pace of change. They were very fed up over the last four years. They wanted action. They wanted results. They looked at prices. They looked at affordability. They looked at immigration. And they didn’t see anything happening,” Luntz said. “They still don’t like what he says, but they like what he does. And these are Democrats now who felt that they were not securing the border. They were doing nothing to prevent illegal immigration, that nothing was actually happening.”

Trump immediately took action after being sworn in to his second term on Jan. 20, signing over 200 executive actions within 12 hours, addressing issues ranging from the border crisis to the economy.

“They wanted to see a reduction in wasteful Washington spending. And they’re seeing that. So what they tell me is, ‘I wish he would be a little bit less rude,’ but at the same time, they like what he’s doing,” Luntz continued. “They believe he’s serious about it. And for the first time, they have confidence in the future, which is why you now see some significant shifts in the polling about the expectations for the direction in the coming years.”

Trump has made cutting waste a major part of his administration, backing Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chairman Elon Musk in his efforts to do so. DOGE’s X account regularly posts updates containing specific information regarding how it is cutting the federal government’s spending.

“It’s a big wake-up call for Democrats,” Keilar responded to Luntz.

“I’m waiting for them to get a message. I’m waiting for them to unify and to understand that to oppose and to be the resistance, which is what some of them use that phrase,” the pollster said. “That’s not what Democrats in grassroots areas want from them. They may not want the approach that Trump is doing … but they do want action and they don’t see action from the Democrats.”

Trump has been moving so fast that Democratic strategist James Carville said during a Thursday podcast that he is stumped about how to counter him.

“I don’t know how you accentuate. Do you oppose one thing? Do you oppose all five? Is it a personnel issue?” Carville asked. “Is it a policy issue? … I’m struggling here a little bit, so maybe some of our really smart viewers can help us untangle it a little bit. It’s really tangled now because no one knows where to land. It’s all too incomprehensible.”

Democratic lawmakers also appear split on how they should oppose Trump’s agenda, with some advocating to resist everything while others seem willing to cross the aisle.

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