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THE SWAMP IS DRAINING !

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   July 27, 2025 - 11:23 am at 11:23 am

   Thursday, Politico ran a great story headlined, “USDA reorganization will move most of its Washington staff ‘closer to’ farmers.” The sub-headline explained, “Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is closing several D.C.-area buildings but notably will not pursue a large-scale reduction in force.”

   The USDA is packing up its Washington operation and heading for the heartland. In a sweeping reorganization, Secretary Rollins announced the closure of nearly every D.C.-area USDA facility except two, relocating thousands of staff to Salt Lake City, Fort Collins, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Raleigh. No mass firings because, Rollins casually noted, over 15,000 employees have already left under the administration’s deferred resignation plan. And who knows how many more will rage-quit rather than move to flyover country.

   Translation: they are literally draining the Swamp.

   The move also cuts costs, by slashing D.C.-area salary premiums, which hover around an eye-watering +34%. The federal workforce, long clustered in deep-blue echo chambers and Soviet-style marble hallways, is being scattered across the map.

   Critics grumbled about morale and oversight, and hilariously called it a “power concentration move.” That’s newspeak. “De-centralization” is somehow “power concentration” now.

   And it’s not just USDA. The FBI is also making a similar move, shifting major operations out of its bunker-like Hoover Building in DC to a sprawling new facility in Greenbelt, Maryland— a location chosen not for prestige, but for logistics, space, and strategic dispersion. Like the USDA relocation, the FBI’s reorganization dilutes the concentration of long-entrenched D.C. insiders who’ve grown comfortable with proximity-as-power.

   This is the first sign of permanent Swamp-draining; literal, physical moves that can’t be easily reversed by future administrations. Once the blob is relocated, it will settle in and won’t even want to move back. Once local jurisdictions enjoy the benefits from hosting large regional federal hubs, they’ll hold onto them like grim death.

   It’ll take decades to reverse, if it is even possible.

   By scattering the agencies, Trump’s not just shrinking the swamp. He’s draining its ability to reconstitute itself. They can win an election and retake the White House— but if the permanent bureaucratic power centers are 900 miles away, good luck rebuilding the Deep State in time for midterms.

   Now do the intelligence agencies. Break them into pieces and scatter them to the winds.

   ………………

   Finally, President Trump enjoyed another major court victory this week. MSN ran the story yesterday, below the headline, “Judge dismisses lawsuits against Trump’s dismantling of USAID.” It’s bigger than the USAID cases, as the story was forced to admit.

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   “For now,” MSN said, “the judge’s 37-page ruling clears the path for further dismantling of USAID’s operations unless higher courts intervene.” Because the judge found that the court lacks jurisdiction to stop the Executive Branch reorganization, the decision could ripple through many other pending lawsuits.

   “The judge’s finding that the plaintiffs lacked jurisdiction,” MSN soberly reported, “could signal the fate of similar legal challenges pending in federal court.” Think dominoes.

   Trump is largely winning in court across the board. The rulings against Trump so far —like union contract voiding, foreign aid freezes, and law firm blacklists— are mostly procedural defeats or First Amendment overreaches, not structural losses. They’re more like frontline skirmishes, not any major setbacks to Trump’s battlefield lines. While they have shown that courts, including some conservative jurists, were willing to push back when the administration overreached or cut corners, they haven’t stopped the broader strategic momentum at all.

   As this USAID case aptly demonstrates, all Trump’s strategic imperatives —reorganizing the administrative state, shifting regulatory authority, asserting unitary executive power, centralizing foreign policy, and dismantling entrenched bureaucracies— are still moving forward, often with court support or judicial deference.

   With everything cooking at a hot boil, next week —my final week of “vacation”— promises to be scorching. I can’t wait.