FROM JEFF CHILDERS

It’s an absolute masterstroke of disruption. The OMB memo and State Department stop-work order aren’t just administrative policy shifts—they are a full-scale financial coup over the federal government. This is not just about budget cuts, or ideological targeting—this is about power.

Until now, government spending has operated on autopilot. Government money printer go brrrrrrr. Money flowed freely through an opaque, closed strainer, without transparency or direct executive oversight, and bureaucracies, NGOs, and foreign governments knew they would always get paid regardless of who was in the White House.

Trump just ended that assumption. This moment will forever be remembered as a turning point in American governance

…………………….

If last week was a tectonic wake-up call, this week the Trump Administration unleashed a 7.8 magnitude earthquake against the deep state. The world is literally changing before our eyes. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal made history, perhaps unknowingly, with its story blandly headlined, “White House Orders Pause of Federal Financial-Assistance Programs.” The sub-headline said only that “Agencies scramble to understand the unexpected memo.” Then, Politico ran a related and oddly similar headline, more blunt but also more confused: “‘It will kill people’: Chaos, confusion after Trump halts US foreign aid.”

image 4.png
Chaos. Confusion. Epoch-making. What Trump has done was, until yesterday, unimaginable. When the Wall Street Journal called “the memo” “unexpected,” it was a masterpiece of understatement, kind of like describing the Hindenberg as an unscheduled travel delay.

It came in two parts (so far). Yesterday, Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) unleashed a two-page memo upon the entire federal government. It was nothing less than a multi-trillion-dollar, whole-of-government spending freeze, excepting only a small handful of essential items like Medicare, emergency relief, payrolls, and Social Security. Like that, Trump shut down the government.

You can be sure that nothing like this has ever happened before. It has completely flipped the script. Instead of Trump trying vainly to wrestle control over a vast bureaucracy, now the bureaucrats must come to Trump for permission to do anything.

Overnight, Trump has managed to turn the vast, out-of-control federal bureaucracy into a command-and-control system.

“Many in the aid space,” Politico reported, “said they couldn’t remember any such sudden halt to funding in the past.” One darkly predicted destruction, saying, “This order is cruel and deadly; It will kill people.”

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) predicted it would create total chaos, insisting, “It will mean missed payrolls and rent payments and everything in between: chaos for everything from universities to non-profit charities, state disaster assistance, local law enforcement, aid to the elderly, and food for those in need.”

Neither the WSJ nor Politico quoted anybody supporting the freeze, or any Republican at all, for that matter. They didn’t even quote any other prominent Democrat voices apart from Schumer’s. There’s no narrative yet, no talking points. The completely one-dimensional report means the media is in shock, terrified, cowed. It doesn’t know which way to turn or what to think.

Can he really do this?

Expect a tsunami of litigation starting … right now.

Here’s a link to a copy of the memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Read the whole thing. It’s only two pages, and it might be one of the single most significant government actions in our lifetimes. I would bet a year’s wages a Supreme Court decision lies at the end of this memo. But let’s dig in. Here are the memo’s two ‘money’ paragraphs:

WOW…………READ THE WHOLE THING AT COFFEE AND COVID…..JEFF CHILDERS IS THE NUMBER 1 GO TO READ EVERY MORNING IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT’S REALLY GOING DOWN !

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/baptism-of-fire-tuesday-january-28?

……………..

A FEW WEEKS BACK I POSTED THE LINK TO TUCKER CARLSONS INTERVIEW WITH TRUMP’S PICK TO RUN THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET….RUSSELL VOIGHT….THIS GUY IS QUIETLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ALLY FOR TRUMP IN THE WHOLE VAST LABRYNTH OF GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES

THESE 4 YEARS IN THE “WILDERNESS” FOR TRUMP AND COMP WERE ABSOLUTELY THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED….THEY DID THEIR HOMEWORK ….LIVE AND LEARN AT GOLDTENT

It is difficult to imagine the scale of planning that must have preceded yesterday’s assault on the permanent bureaucracy. It reminds us of the “Baptism of Fire” scene in the Godfather, where Michael strikes back against all the rival gangs, not just the one who assassinated his father.

NESSUM DORMA ?

https://goldtadise.com/?p=641375

ONE MORE SNIP from Childers masterpiece article

We can quibble over precise definitions, but nobody can argue that USAID isn’t a core component of the deep state, however you want to define that term. It’s ironic that Chuck Schumer has become the deep state’s poster boy, since Trump is attacking the deep state “six ways from Sunday.” He’s cut off their money —the deep state’s lifeblood— and now he’s ruthlessly making examples of employees who defy legal instructions. And not just a few employees, either.

This is the long-awaited deep state showdown—but on a scale nobody imagined. It’s like what we hoped would happen during Trump’s first term, except that it has been working out during its 4-year hiatus and now it has roid rage.

If Trump succeeds in these agency purges, and gathers the money strings back under White House control, in one transparent database, then the deep state as we knew it is finished.