A Double Minded America

A large majority of U.S. voters say the federal government is “filled with waste,” should cut spending, and needs an agency to ensure its “efficiency,” according to a new Harris survey results. 

In a sign that Trump Derangement Syndrome is still raging in some quarters, results of the same new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey revealed that two-thirds of Democrat voters want their party to preemptively oppose “everything” President Donald Trump does – simply because he’s the one doing it.

The Bible says a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. The Left is double-minded.

This is reminiscent of Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, which begins with the often-quoted first line: "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."

President Trump will address the nation and the world this evening. He promises to share everything and promises that the best is yet to come.

It will be televised at 6 PM Pacific Time. 

You can watch it on major TV networks, including Fox News, ABC, NPR, News Nation, and PBS. 

Be informed, not misled.

While Democrats in Congress fiercely denounce the efforts of the new Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) created by President Donald Trump, the nation’s registered voters strongly support DOGE’s work, according to the Harris/HarrisX/Harvard CAPS survey conducted February 19-20.

Craig Bannister with Media Research Center says, "Strikingly, two-thirds (64%) of registered Democrats say their party should blindly “oppose everything that Trump is doing”, while 66% of all voters think Congressional Democrats should “take more of a wait and see attitude towards his actions.”

This suggests that support for Trump’s efforts to eliminate government waste and cut spending would be even higher—if not for those respondents who based their answers on unreasoning bias instead of on the details and effectiveness of his work.

Likewise, a 57% majority of Democrat voters say their party should accept “government waste” – not “join in the mission of cutting” it.

Conversely, two-thirds (66%) of all U.S. registered voters say Democrats should help cut government waste by reducing expenditures.

Indeed, there is a general consensus among U.S. voters that government spending needs to be scrutinized and slashed:

• 70% say government spending is “filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency.”
• 67% say the federal government’s debt is “unsustainable.”
• 69% support the goal of cutting $1 trillion in spending (51% of Democrats oppose).
• 59% support cutting government expenditures that were already allocated by Congress.
• 83% say the U.S. government should work to balance the budget in the next few years.
• 63% support “freezing and re-evaluating all foreign aid expenditures and the department that handled them.”
• 83% say the U.S. government should reduce its budget deficit by cutting spending, not increasing taxes.
• Three-fourths of U.S. voters say there needs to be a government-wide examination of spending to root out waste – and think there needs to be an agency like Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to do it.
• 76% support a “full-scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government.”
• 72% say, “There should be a U.S. government agency focused on efficiency initiatives.”
• 60% say DOGE “is helping make major cuts in government expenditures.”

Additionally, a slight majority (52%) say DOGE should “have access to all information on government expenditures."

Strikingly, 64% of registered Democrats say their party should blindly “oppose everything” that Pres. Trump is doing.

However, 66% of all registered voters, including 89% of Republican voters and 70% of Independent/Other voters, think Congressional Democrats should “take more of a wait and see attitude towards his actions. "

The results suggest that support for Trump’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to cut wasteful government spending could be even higher, except for many Democrat voters’ unreasoned, blanket rejection of everything Trump does, regardless of its benefits and effectiveness.

A 57% majority of Democrat voters say their party should accept “government waste” – not “join in the mission of cutting” it.

Our country is headed toward bankruptcy, and 57% of the Left would rather see our country collapse than see Trump get the credit for saving it. 

Conversely, two-thirds (66%) of all U.S. registered voters say Democrats in Congress should help cut government waste by reducing expenditures, and 70% say government spending is “filled with waste, fraud and inefficiency.”

Fully 76% of all registered voters say they support Pres. Trump’s policy of “undertaking a full-scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government expenditures.”

Takeaway

• Founding Father and second President of the United States, John Adams,  said, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” 
• Founding Father Alexander Hamilton said, "Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." 
• Founding Father James Madison---our fourth President, said, "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." 
• In Matthew 15:14, Jesus speaks of the uninformed religious leaders, "Let them alone; they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Thankfully, the Lord has blessed America, and if we stay the course spiritually and politically, we will  avoid the "ditch."

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