Establishment Republican senators: "Trump Moving Too Fast"

Establishment Republican senators believe President Donald Trump is saving taxpayer money “too fast” while “rashly” purging rogue and corrupt bureaucrats.

The senators requested Trump slow down on fulfilling his campaign promises of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, as well as gutting the “deep state.”

What do you think?

Be informed, not misled.

Some Republican Senators are asking Trump to slow down.

Trump posted on "X": President Trump's plan to DISMANTLE the deep state, FIRE the rogue bureaucrats and career politicians in Washington, and return our government to the AMERICAN PEOPLE. The corrupt establishment is fighting President Trump because President Trump fights for YOU!"

#AGENDA47: President Trump's plan to DISMANTLE the deep state, FIRE the rogue bureaucrats and career politicians in Washington, and return our government to the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 21, 2023

AXIOS---not a conservative news group, published what they see as a case against and a case for the speed with which Trump is moving forward.

AXIOS claims, "As the Trump administration continues its crusade to pare down the federal job rolls and slash federal spending, some Republicans on Capitol Hill are growing unnerved by what they see as an imprecise exercise."

Why it matters, according to Axios: 

The job and funding cuts are now hitting GOP lawmakers' districts and states. There's also a larger conflict brewing over whether the administration can simply bypass Congress on these decisions.

DOGE's efforts to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other agencies could bring matters to a head, one House Republican told Axios.

"I think you're going to see a clash when they ... start abolishing [agencies]," the lawmaker said. "Say like USAID, right? We authorized that. That's a creature of Congress."

"If they try to do something like that, then you're going to get into a constitutional argument or crisis."

Driving the news: DOGE's spree of job cuts is starting to target federal roles that even some of Trump's Republican allies in Congress may deem too essential to sacrifice.

That includes the Federal Aviation Administration firing several hundred of its 45,000 employees amid a string of fear-inducing plane crashes.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which runs the National Weather Service and helps combat natural disasters, is also on the chopping block.

The administration even fired over 300 workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration — which manages the U.S. nuclear arsenal — but has since scrambled to reinstate most of them, according to CNN.

They're saying that Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) told Axios the administration is moving "too fast." She warned Elon Musk's team that they should wait until agency heads are confirmed and that they can take "a more surgical approach."

She said some recent actions "violate restrictions that are in current law," and the team is "making mistakes," referencing the accidental firing of officials working on bird flu.

"Before making cuts rashly, the Administration should be studying and staffing to see what the consequences are. Measure twice before cutting. They have had to backtrack multiple times," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.).

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) also has concerns and told Axios of her state's many federal workers: "We all want efficiencies, there is a way to do it, and the way these people have been treated has been awful in many cases. Awful."

Zoom in: Several other lawmakers, including Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), have criticized the various agency layoffs as well, according to Politico.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told RadioIowa it is "a tragedy for people that are getting laid off," but that "this is an executive branch decision."

"Congress can't do anything except complain about it," he said.

The case for Trump moving quickly to keep his promises to the American people.

The president has a short window to fulfill a long list of promises, including fixing illegal immigration, slashing government spending, and ending the war in Ukraine.

Breitbart News notes that "DOGE, under the direction of Trump, has gutted several agencies and fired thousands of employees, many of whom are holdovers from the Biden administration."

The purge comes after Trump’s political opponents tried to imprison him, bankrupt him, remove him from the ballot, and make him politically irrelevant by introducing a partisan committee to investigate January 6 — and whose inflammatory rhetoric created a ripe environment for two assassination attempts.

“We will demolish the ‘deep state.’ We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news,” Trump vowed in Windham, New Hampshire, in 2023.

Fox News says, "Democratic Party strategist James Carville admitted that the pace at which President Trump is fulfilling his executive duties is throwing his party off balance."

In the latest episode of the "Politics War Room" podcast, Carville lamented how Democratic lawmakers are floundering in trying to stop the president’s second term agenda.

"We’re getting overwhelmed," he told podcast co-host Al Hunt. "Things that we thought that would kill a political career, would be poisonous for whatever reason, this guy keeps chugging along."

Carville quoted former Trump official Steve Bannon, who reportedly said in 2018, "The Democrats don’t matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with (expletive)."

"Bannon is right. We are flooded in (expletive)-- and we are searching for a way to deal with this. These are extraordinarily difficult times," Carville said, noting that Trump’s actions are moving so fast, that he can’t even tell what’s going on.

"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."

Trump clearly knows what he must do to keep his promises to the American people.

During another episode of the podcast earlier this month, Carville mentioned that the Democratic Party is doing nothing to help itself amidst this executive onslaught from Trump. 

Pointing to the gender rules that were enumerated during a recent Democratic National Committee meeting – that went viral due to their woke nature – the longtime Democratic strategist suggested that someone was sabotaging the party from within by suggesting these policy points.

The political Left has collapsed. Their influence is next to nothing.

It is the leftist news media that Trump is running to stay ahead of---not the Democrat Party.

He must move fast if his promises are to be kept. And he knows it.

I wish him Godspeed.

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.