The new president threw official Washington into a spinning tizzy when on Tuesday his Office of Management and Budget announced that he was temporarily freezing $3 trillion in “all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance.” The executive order was blocked by a federal judge and the administration rescinded the memo. But the message was sent. This president is serious about removing the dead wood from the federal machine.
An interesting secondary effect of the order was to show just how dependent politicians, party and government functionaries, institutions, and far too many private individuals have become on the federal trough. They reacted as if the world were ending.
The 47th president is different, different from the 45th, and different from every president going back to the 19th century. His only rivals would be Calvin Coolidge, a zealous advocate of limited government, and Ronald Reagan, whose rhetoric about pulling back government was spot on even if his execution wasn’t always in line with his lofty goals.
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said Trump’s first week in office “totally reset my conception of what’s possible, in two wholly different dimensions.”
The headline on law professor and Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds’ recent New York Post op-ed declared that Trump’s “unprecedented and swift action … has reset the national mood.” […]
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