Gregory Rohrbough writes for the American Thinker about President Trump’s impact on the Washington establishment.
In the eyes of Washington politicians and lobbyists, President Donald Trump is the most dangerous person in the world. First, he’s a rich, white male who has run a generally conservative administration. Second, he’s impulsive and quick to take offense. And lastly, he’s genuinely making progress at taking down the Swamp.
However, Trump’s progress shows just how deep the Swamp is — because no matter how much he does, there’s always another monster crawling out.
Some of the monsters are familiar. Republican Oklahoma senator James Lankford has followed in his predecessor’s footsteps by releasing an annual report on examples of inefficient and wasteful spending in the federal government. Nearly $400 billion in this type of spending was identified in the last report, released in December 2019. That’s nearly $1,200 per American.
Then there are improper payments. These are dollars incorrectly sent out, usually in the form of accidental overpayments. Nearly $150 billion was lost to this Swampy issue in 2017 alone from food stamps to Medicaid to the Department of Defense. There appear to be few or no consequences for the liberal bureaucracy that let this $463 per American slip through their fingers.
The Swamp hates Trump’s successes on immigration, tax cuts, and deregulation. But these are familiar monsters. There are also the ones which bubble up out of nowhere, like the Obama administration’s lame-duck discrimination lawsuits against Oracle, Google, and other companies. These lawsuits were filed between Trump’s election and Trump taking office, and they were based on statistics — not actual cases of discrimination.
