Congress has a mandate to enact President-elect Trump’s agenda. The voters spoke loudly on two issues, the border and inflation. Rightly so. The Biden-Mayorkas team did generational damage to our sovereign integrity by opening the border to the world. And Congress has neglected our budget for decades resulting in a cascade of national debt that is fueling inflation.
The voters demand corrective action.
Border security is the most pressing and immediate problem. It can be solved in large part by simply enforcing our laws. For instance, the law currently requires that every illegal alien be held in custody until the alien’s immigration claims are adjudicated. That means that the millions of people that Biden-Mayorkas turned loose into the country with court dates five, six, seven years or more out, should be in custody.
We will have to increase capacity to detain these illegal aliens. We will begin deporting millions as soon as possible, remembering that more than 1.5 million illegal aliens have already received due process in our courts and have been ordered by a judge to leave the country.
That leaves the more vexing problem of how to slow inflation. The classic definition of inflation is the devaluation, or loss of purchasing power, of a nation’s currency.
In America today that devaluation was caused by deficit spending by the federal government. It was exacerbated by Joe Biden’s insistence on subsidizing massive Green New Deal projects long after the COVID issue had ceased its emergency status.
In a bizarre sidenote, the Internal Revenue Service announced in December 2024 that it will send out COVID stimulus checks to 1 million Americans at a cost of more than $1.4 billion.[1] The spending never ends.
And that’s the problem: the spending never ends.
Heck, it never slows down.
Think of the Pentagon and its persistent failure to pass an audit. How many trillions of dollars are unaccounted for? What is Congress’s regular answer to this lack of fiscal accountability? Give the Department of Defense more money.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has abused its power and regularly spied on Americans, apparently fixated on Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass and parents who attend school board meetings, while missing ISIS terrorists who are bent on killing American infidels. Does Congress use the power of the purse to rein in and reorganize the FBI? No, it rewards the Bureau with a bigger-than-the-Pentagon, posh new headquarters.
Speaking of border security, maybe Congress should stop giving free healthcare to illegal aliens thus saving potentially hundreds of billions of dollars.
My bill that allows Congress to look back and eliminate the plethora of onerous rules and regulations put in place by the Biden Regime in his last year in office, the Midnight Rules Relief Act, could potentially save us more than $1 trillion.
Congress must be willing to bend the deficit curve down; close the gap between expenses and revenue. I hate to say it, but Congress must at least stop the growth in deficit spending on the discretionary side if we are going to have a chance to tame the inflation monster. I hate to say it because there will be some in Congress who will think that even that is too much.
Both border security and reduction of federal deficits are encompassed in the Trump mandate. If we deliver, and deliver we must, America will be safer and more prosperous. It will be a new foundation that can begin a generational benefit to our great nation.