The President of the United States, representing the executive branch, takes aggressive emergency action on tariffs and trade to protect American fiscal sovereignty and solvency. Both chambers of the U.S. congress, the house and senate representing the Legislative branch, affirm the action through legislative support. Yet, a single court in the judicial branch intervenes on behalf of multinational corporate interests to block trade policy.
That is the framework of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s main point in a discussion with Fox News Bret Baier. WATCH:
On the DOGE issue, listen to how a well-versed professional executive with years of experience in institutional reform discusses taking the DOGE team effort and integrating them into his massive agency as part of an operational efficiency overhaul.
Compare Secretary Bessent’s approach to other cabinet officials who have yet to grasp and execute the efficiency model that has been handed to them by the DOGE effort. The contrast is remarkable.
“Compare Secretary Bessent’s approach to other cabinet officials who have yet to grasp and execute the efficiency model that has been handed to them by the DOGE effort.”
Perhaps they need to read “DOGE for Dummies”
Perhaps the other cabinet officials grasp that the federal government bureaucracy cannot respond like a profit-oriented corporation to disruptive large-scale forced decimation of the workforce simultaneous with other cuts and increases in workload.
The “efficiency model” that exploits fear to ruthlessly overdrive a remaining core, constantly pushing out those who can’t sustain the gross overload and long hours (i.e. normal Americans) and replacing them with fresh meat for the grinder, as a “Human Resources” model. (DOGE sprang from the minds of tech moguls who take this to the next level with H-1B indentured servitude.)
Perhaps the other cabinet officials are already hearing about the profound dysfunctions setting in due to Deferred Resignation Programs (DRP) creating gaping holes in leadership, expertise, and institutional knowledge, far too rapidly for the organizations to adapt. Especially with wave after wave of DRPs appearing, as soon as leadership starts to plan their plan is obsolete. How can the marginally-competent leadership of a bureaucracy deal with this, in the rigid framework of the bureaucracy? Especially as leadership itself is being decimated by the DRPs? They can’t. They are paralyzed.
One might feel satisfaction at watching this decimation and paralysis taking down agencies like HUD, the Education Department, USAID, etc. What about the DoD Civilian workforce, necessary for the US military? One may start to wonder if one of the goals of DOGE is to further the decline of the DoD Civilian workforce that started with the plandemic measures, as part of continuing the decline of the US military.
DOGE is finding waste, fraud and non-productive abuse within government agencies.
If anything, it is making government agencies more efficient.
The only government employees that should feel threatened are the ones involved in waste, fraud and abuse.
I am a retired federal auditor. I worked for GAO.
Believe me, there is a large amount of dead wood (employees) in the federal government.
There is also a great deal of inefficiency in terms of business/accounting systems and processes in the federal government.
Corps of Engineers are the only system that can pass an audit. Every agency should use one accounting system- it is doable.
You typed a lot. Some interesting angles. Attributed work is always best when attributed to the real author.
There is always potential concern about doing too much too quickly. But when dealing with Fraud, Waste and Abuse, the sooner the better. Some or many processes SHOULD stop working immediately and wasteful staff SHOULD be shown the door ASAP. “DEI” support infrastructure for example, because it is a complete waste of time, money and every other resource.
(DOGE sprang from the minds of tech moguls who take this to the next level with H-1B indentured servitude.)
And by sprang to mind you mean was initiated by the nObama Administration correct?
Because the department already existed and was merely repurposed as DOGE.
OK, then, as you were. Just keep steering the ship, despite the fact it’s heading into brink.
We have to do this quickly. We don’t have much time! If past inflation hasn’t convinced you of that, I’ve got ocean front property in Montana I’d like to sell ya.
ugh… the fed workers don’t produce much of anything… but they sure spend a lot of money in some Congressmans district… so its hard to cut…
Guv spending is GDP .. right? its just happens to be the most ineffficent and useless GDP we produce .. and we produce it with dollars borrowed from your grand kids plus interest.
Clearly, you have not worked for years for a governmental bureaucracy and are not familiar with the bloat and general inefficiencies.
I retired from the government. It was common for people to arrive at 9, go to Starbuck’s in a group, come back in 40 minutes, talk to each other at length, leave for lunch at 11:30 am (to avoid the downtown crowds), come back at 1:30 pm work a few hours and leave by 10 to 5 to avoid the traffic. Often people would go for long 4 mile walks at lunchtime. In between, they worked leisurely. It was not uncommon to walk into my supervisor’s office to see him with his feet on the desk reading a newspaper.
Years ago, I worked for the federal government in DC. On my first day, I was to start at 8:30am. I got to building a few minutes early, and found the doors locked. Completely. This was a huge government building in DC. I waited and waited. I don’t remember when the doors were unlocked or how long I waited but it was quite a while – maybe after 9. I kept thinking I was in the wrong place but I wasn’t. I remember complaining to my father (who was a staunch Republican in the private sector) and it confirmed everything he thought about government waste and abuse.
I am familiar with remote online work that requires degrees but can be done at hours of your own choosing. The day that PDJT required government employees to return to their offices, the hours being worked online shifted for much of the work force to nighttime and weekends.
I wonder if the workers were moonlighting government workers who were taking a government paycheck for work 9-5 but were also employed during the same hours doing freelance work online. When they were forced to return to the office 9-5, they moved their side gig to evening and weekend hours. Just guessing but it was an interesting coincidence.
By the time Covid hit they were leaving at 4 for the same traffic reasons and.. Some groups were scheduling Saturday meetings that involve a few hours travel.. So they all took off on Friday and Monday .. there was nothing discussed at any of those meetings that could not have been handled while on one of the 3 hour lunches
I work in the federal government currently. I’m far from an expert, but from what I’ve seen in my 14 years in government, it is overstaffed and the Trump administration is right to reduce the amount of employees. This is just based off my experience in my agency.
Laying people off sucks, but sometimes it must be done. I was laid off before and my father was laid off when I was a child (it was devastating for my family, but we survived) so I know what it’s like.
That being said, I do question the DRP. Nearly everyone I know who took the DRP were going to retire in the next year or two. I don’t think it saved the government any money.
There is a huge gulf between a veteran government employee’s perspective of “efficiency” and the perspective of a veteran employee of a successful for-profit company that has survived over many decades despite alternating periods of economic highs and lows.
I think you underestimate the level of incompetence and layers of management that exist at most places. I always refer to this as the “big organization problem”. I currently work for a small engineering/manufacturing company. Less than 10 employees. I this type of environment, you cannot hide your inefficiency or incompetence.
Our team is typically more competent than most teams we meet from the military SME’s (subject matter experts) or other primes such as Lockhead Martin or General Dynamics. There have been many times, where there are 2-3 of us, in a meeting with 10-15 from the prime. All kinds of titles, supervisors, contract officers, quality managers and 1 or 2 engineers that will actually be doing work with us.
I have worked at the primes. It is not surprising to me that Elon cut Twitter by 70% and it is still operating and adding new features. I believe most of the primes could function acceptably with on 30% of their employees. The same with the civilian work force in the military.
Contrast to Pavel Durov and Telegram. 50 employees for a global company with 1 billion users. They hold competitions to weed out who they will offer employment to. Soo, per Pavel words “we only hire the best of the best of the best”. Pavel personally supervises all of his employees, no need for a mid-level supervisors, department heads, or a HR department.
Or Steve Jobs, with iPhone development. I believe it was around 10 hand picked employees total. This was everyone, electronic hardware engineers, software engineers, mechanical/packaging engineers and production/manufacturing engineers. Small competent teams with a driving force pointing them in the same direction can accomplish big things.
It is actually makes you thrive and enjoy your work versus having to deal with stupid everyday.
A superstar. Without a doubt.
He impresses me more each time I listen to him! I can honestly say that about many of President Trump’s Cabinet officisls, but definitely him!
Every once in a while you meet someone who impresses you and leaves you with the feeling this individual is much smarter than you are. This guy is one of them! I believe President Trump’s Cabinet is the smartest Cabinet of any President in my lifetime!!! As opposed to the dullards, fools and idiotic DEI hire Cabinet members demented Joe Biden had prepared for him! JMO
Agreed. Scott Bessent is a breath of fresh air. He truly is working in the best interests of this country. I hope he will stick around for Trump’s entire term.
So ridiculous… LITERALLY the White House has a designated National Economic Council “established in 1993 to advise the President on US and global economic policy” (https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/nec and elsewhere), and Congress has oversight responsibilities across the board…
…- Plus the fact nunna these azzhoes did nothin’ about tariffs during Trump 1.0… – Why was that, *Exactly*?…
Internet search:
“Continuation of Trump-era tariffs: The Biden administration largely kept in place the tariffs that were imposed by the Trump administration on a wide range of Chinese goods.
New tariffs and targeted approach: The Biden administration also imposed new tariffs on specific strategic sectors, including:
Steel and Aluminum: Tariffs increased to 25%.
Semiconductors: Tariffs increased to 50%.
Electric Vehicles: Tariffs increased to 100%.
Batteries and Critical Minerals: Tariffs increased to 25%.
Solar Cells: Tariffs increased to 50%.
Ship-to-Shore Cranes: Tariffs increased to 25%.
Medical Products: Tariffs increased to 50%.
Rationale for tariffs: The Biden administration stated that these tariffs were necessary to protect American workers and businesses from China’s unfair trade practices, including forced technology transfers, intellectual property theft, and overcapacity.”
Imagine that…
Virtually none of those tariffed items are made here.
They were necessary to bankrupt us faster.
Incidentally, I’m not buying into IP theft. Everyone that does business in Chy-nah knows in advance that their products & IP will be stolen by the CCP… and yet they still do business there. It’s a choice. Freely made.
Curious, Soldier, what you mean by “they were necessary to bankrupt us faster.”
Exactly so. Most don’t care about the long-term health of the corporation, or the country in which the entity cutting their paycheck is incorporated. What matters is what they can get for themselves NOW. Corporate activity which is allowed to become decoupled from ethnocentrism always becomes dyscivilizational. Nationalist capitalism, properly harnessed, is a great blessing. Internationalist capitalism is a horror arguably as bad as international communism.
“Ruin comes when the trader, lifted up by wealth, becomes ruler.” Plato, 367 BC
“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” Thomas Jefferson
…- *Eggggz-Actly*!, Mr. P…
…- *EURGHHH*!!!… – Survey Says!!: – Biden *Continued* Trump tariffs!…
[Judicial System *Crickets*…]
Looks like Elon could have delivered the ultimate “virus” into the government. A team adopted into every agency to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse.
Well, here’s one taxpayer who would just love that!
I would love to have weekly briefings on DOGE findings…much like the “Five Bullets” requirements, if DOGE could give us a quick update each week on what’s happening, what has been referred for investigation, what has been recommended for cuts, etc.
…- *Very* *En Pointe*, Monticello … – Loves me some G ‘n’ F’n R, so I does:…
“Welcome to the jungle
It’s worse here everyday
You learn to live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
.
You got a hunger for what you see
You’ll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me”
…- Practically the DC (Anti-)Bible, right there…
…- Here’s one back at’cha! 😉 :…
“…- What… we’re dealing with here is a failure… to *communicate*… – some men… you just can’t… reach…”
“Did you wear a black armband when they shot the man
Who said, “Peace could last forever”?
And in my first memories they shot Kennedy,
I went numb when I learned to see,
So I never fell for Vietnam,
We got the wall of DC to remind us all,
That you can’t trust freedom when it’s not in your hands,
When *Everybody’s* fighting for their promised land…”
Back when Axl had that firebomb of a voice. A true rock classic.
…- Bipolar RedHead *Will* Bipolar RedHead…
…- Last time I looked he was fronting for AC/DC… – Is that still a thing?…
Ah yes, The Federalist Society. Bill Barr was a contributing speaker there and I remember a speech he gave there a few years ago when he alluded approvingly to the fact that many in the audience would likely be tapped to fill judicial vacancies during the first Trump administration. In retrospect, that should have been a red flag.
I think where the Society went off course is that few of its members have actually read the Federalist Papers, which outline a system of limited, Constitutional government. Too many have become enamored of the deference that our society, unfortunately, grants to judges. At one point, such deference was warranted but as with so many other power centers, it has become corrupt and lost in delusions of its own authority so that the casual trampling of Constitutional order is regularly slighted and treated as unimportant.
It’s a bit overdue, but Trump’s calling out of, and turning away from, the influence of the Society is something to be cheered by every patriot. We turned away from kings to self-government 250 years ago, so these throwbacks to more royal times, when every political disagreement was treated as an offense against ‘lese majeste’ are anachronisms whose pride won’t allow them to acknowledge that their ability to judge disputes among their fellow countrymen is a privilege and a responsibility, not a divine right.
J
…- I’ll stick with the original *Papers*… – *Please* and *Thankyou*:…
(Federalist #12)
“A few armed ships, judiciously stationed at the entrances to our ports…”
The ABA (American Bar Association) is being neutered as well.
Bondi Eliminates ABA’s Role in Vetting Trump Judicial Picks (2)
“Unfortunately, the ABA no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications, and its ratings invariably and demonstrably favor nominees put forth by Democratic administrations,” Bondi said.
The ABA has been leftwing biased since before Reagan.
JMO.
“Yet, a single court in the judicial branch intervenes on behalf of multinational corporate interests to block trade policy.”
What we are witnessing is “Robert’s Rules of Disorder.”
The not-so-Supreme Court Justice Roberts has ignored his oath from his first day in office.
His Supreme Court has never been Constitutionally Compliant.
He has continued the Court’s globalist / communist leaning of the past century.
He ignores the hundreds of district court rogue jurists running roughshod over the Constitutional Rights of individuals and the 2025 Executive Branch…… killing time and raising legal expenses until the cases reach the Supreme Court …… where he either kills the case or sends it back down to the lower court to take up more time.
The purpose is to slow down, if not completely stop President Trump from fulfilling his promises to “we the people.”
But, he has met his match with the G.O.A.T. President Trump. President Trump knows his delaying tactics and has developed work-arounds to Constitutionally defeat the roadblocks.
MAGA isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Agreed. A new sheriff is in town and the deep state, including but not limited to: IC, rogue judges, non-patriot unelected bureaucrats, unpatriotic elected officials, rinos & dhimocrats don’t like it and are skeeeerd because trillions are at stake.
We the people who overwhelming backed this new sheriff just need to turn up the heat. Call or write your senators & congressman/person and tell them to back Trump to the Gates of Hell if necessary or you will happily campaign to primary them.
Provided a majority of peeps & patriots would do this at least once a month, we will see changes. Let the bastards & bitches know whose boss.
😉🇺🇸
I respectfully differ on the point of logic. DC has logic and it must be understood. The logic is greed, primarily.
We are dealing with bright and corrupt individuals and they have mastered the logic of power and kleptocracy.
We must understand them. We must think like them, like a police detective understanding the mind of a serial killer in order to predict with confidence their next move.
That is how you defeat them.
True. The government sees itself as responsible for one function – redistribution of income. That is, how do we buy off the lumpenproletariat scum and prevent next week’s riot? All government action is aimed at that one goal. If a department (i.e,, education, defense, treasury, state) happens to achieve its stated purpose, that is a happy accident as the real purpose is guaranteed employment for useless eaters who have nothing to offer any institution that actually sees its primary mission as getting things done.
As for the Repukes in congress, they are conservative only in the sense that they want to “conserve” this redistributionist system. And they are happy to have the courts do the dirty work so they don’t have to do it themselves and answer to their constituents.
I would have no problem with the courts blocking Trump if their reasons were that he is actually violating the Constitution or exceeding his powers. In fact I would cheer them because that would be a good reason. But “people are dependent on this system and you can’t shock the system” is not a good reason.
Bc ultimately “they” are really just “us”. If not for the current corrupt officials and leaders ruling us, there would be numbers of us to take their place. And since power corrupts and the human condition is such that greed promotes survival – an instinct – we can’t even say we’d do any better.
Their hair is causing me to have flashbacks.
…- Hairmetal was where it was at, backintheday, L’m’g’a’:…
…- Poison, Megadeth, Guns’n’Roses, Motley Crue, Metallica (Questionable, maybe?…), Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen,… – I mean, *C’MON DUDE*!!…
[Grabs Can of Hairspray and Back-Comb…]
I like bessent .
But …
He seemed to be under the weather in the his vid…..I hope he is ok.
I think he’s tired, and I don’t blame him. He’s doing splendidly, however.
IMHO Scott always seems to be somewhat nervous when being interviewed on camera; stammering a bit and re-starting sentences. He seems like a genuinely nice person – and very competent in his function – but probably isn’t yet comfortable speaking to news reporters / anchors. Hopefully he will become more relaxed in his on-camera appearances as time progresses.
I am glad I am not the only one who has noticed how Bessent seems nervous during interviews. I am certain that the a*$#%les in the downstream media will try to find a way to use it. That being said, they really are not smart enough are they?
Complaining about “rogue judges” is pointless. Change. The. Law. They are only using powers given to them, but it sounds like Congress likes it this way.
Too many Congress critters like things just the way they are.
This means they can continue grifting,
It’s on both sides of the aisle.
Given to a district judge to direct the President’s actions across the entire nation and globe in matters they have neither remit nor expertise?
No law gave then such power, they stole it.
That comment reads like a defense and a deflection.
I wonder if all this negative judicial activity is having a negative effect on the Chinese trade negotiations?
The activist judges are just speed bumps to slow down PDJT and his policies.
Other than with higher courts, where does the ‘checks and balances’ against the judiciary lie? Currently the better part of the MAGA agenda is being stymied by political rulings in rogue courts.
When you appoint people like Bessent you get results and adult conversation.
When you appoint people like Pam Blondi, Kash Pitiful, and Dan Bongo you get media appearances and word salads.
PDJT Achilles Heel in his first term was poor choices in personnel. Convince me has hasn’t made the same mistake again.
I have been very pleasantly surprised at Marco Rubio..and I like Howard
Lutnik he seems to be a happy warrior always seem positive upbeat
and having a good time..
The DOJ I admit but I think the best we and POTUS gets is a DOJ who
won;t bother him won;t go after him so he can focus on other things
without having to deal with the shenanigans he did in his first term
with the DOJ/FBI
I like this guy he has a very calm steady personality.
It must be in the New York municipal water supply. Something is driving them all crazy, don’t care who nominated them.
The time is now for the U.S. Serene Court to wake up and clean the cobwebs out of this antagonistic judicial thinking.
“Compare Secretary Bessent’s approach to other cabinet officials who have yet to grasp and execute the efficiency model that has been handed to them by the DOGE effort. The contrast is remarkable.”
RFKjr appears to get it at HHS as well. At the other end of that spectrum is Brooke Rollins (a Big Ag shill), and of course Ms Bondi at DOJ. Somewhere in the middle is the former governor of North Dakota who now heads Interior, doing who exactly knows what.
I blame our totally sold out and failed Congress for a whole lot of the problems we’re having today..
We’ve reached crisis on many topics that Trump, the Executive branch must now attempt to sort out.
The Judiciary, we’ve learned, is siding with the failed congress.
But how we got here to this place is largely due to corruption and failure of congress to do their jobs- and then do those jobs with a sense of loyalty to their own people and nation– this is what sparked the America First demand.
So I grow more angry at Congress..
Congress is responsible for Trillions of fraud everyday!
There are 537 elected officials who are responsible for the mess we are in. There are times when I think a dart thrown at random phone books could produce better choices.
The Fourth Branch very much appreciates our rage at their fully owned puppets.
When we see puppets as piñatas, we waste our energies and never seek out the higher order conspirators.
Furthermore, I consider that the Derp State MUST BE DESTROYED!!
I get the creeping feeling that nobody is thinking through what comes next after AI. Most of the white collar jobs in this country could vanish. Artist will be lucky to only be starving. Full automation of service jobs? Check.
Oh, joy, GDP will increase by 1%.
We can’t all make hamburgers for each other and expect to have good paying jobs.
“[N]ext after AI”? I wouldn’t even want to know. AI should catch a flaming virus and die ASAP.
Twilight Zone
Yeah. I mean, things are going to get real dystopian, real fast. And we all know how that will result: take your pic from sci-fi portrayals which I believe we will find out to be mostly accurate.
That will lead to lots and lots of war, carnage, terrorism… etc.
Not too hard to predict. At some point, just like in certain sci-fi, we will end up in a place where certain tech is verboten based on the “previous global calamity”. That is, until a few generations forget and think “those old relics from the past laws are no longer relevant to modern society,” and the cycle repeats.
Yep, I’m a believer that the next Great War will actually be an attempt to destroy AI and the totalitarian regimes the rise from it.
Star Trek lore is based on the society that arose following global eugenics wars. [Insert Skynet/Terminator metaphor here.]
Another possibility is that collapsing birth rates globally mean we’ll need AI to pick up the slack. But there’s no version of AI that will lead to human betterment. We’re much more likely to have wars between AI machines that, because machines are coldly rational, will be horrific in their brutality.
AI won’t care that it’s killing children in a school. And any country that programs their AI to “care” will be quickly defeated by those that unrestrict the violence their AI permits.
The two farmers and their mule syndrome.
Golden Age or Gilded Caige?
As a young single mom, I was confronted with the question, is there bread in the kitchen many times. It make the decisions easier to make. One evening returning from work my children then 10 and 11 said what’s for dinner. The fridge contained limp lettuce, 2 dry tortillas and a tbsp of sour cream. Paycheck not due for 24 hours and $5 in my wallet. I said let’s go to the store. Came back with the biggest box of cheap ice cream, handed them each a spoon. They have recounted that memory to their own children as a happy memory!! Sometimes you have to think out of the box. That’s what this president is an absolute genius at.
I always did a pot of blue box mac n cheese (25 cents),a drained can of green beans, (35 cents) and 8 sliced hotdogs ( 59 cents for ballpark)
Btw, all mixed together with some milk and a little butter
“Both chambers of the U.S. congress, the house and senate representing the Legislative branch, affirm the action through legislative support. ”
Could you expand on that please? I heard Bessent mention the Senate declining to override the President (first 30 seconds.) but it wasn’t specific.
I mentally connect that to the President’s Sect. 122 powers to impose tariffs that (somewhat like the War Powers Act) lapse in 150 days without affirmative Congressional action. But Trump has been inoking the IEEPA in his Executive Orders, not 122.
So what is the legislative support here? A failure to write a law barring Trump’s use of IEEPA?
What a breath of fresh air to listen to a knowledgeable experienced adult at the top of our Govt. We are used to seeing children tying to run things.
Bessent was the architect for Soros that broke the Bank of England.
Brilliant man. Glad he is working for President Trump.