Long Island Life and Politics has been featuring the highs and lows of the new Trump administration.
He can give the American people a great deal of hope with the action he takes in the morning and then frustrate them with an inopportune statement or action later in the day.
Another example is how he dealt with frivolous spending by many of these groups receiving federal funding.
GOOD TRUMP: He focused his attention on the enormous waste within the federal government. The creation of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, is a welcome attempt to weed out the nonsensical grants that are given to many researchers and do-nothing organizations. Millions of dollars for condoms to Gaza or studying the sex lives of seahorses is worthy of going after.
BAD TRUMP: But the manner in which he went about it was foolish, counterproductive, and injected unnecessary fear into organizations that provide needed services. What was the point of putting an automatic freeze on grants to thousands of organizations indiscriminately? No, it was never a freeze on needed entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, as many Democrats and the media falsely proclaimed, but many important not-for-profits that provide needed services and depend on federal aid were unnecessarily worried. The messaging of the rollout was flawed. Why not just let those agencies do their work, identify the wasteful programs, and then cut them at that time?
Who could be against that? Then again, we know that there will be plenty of big-spending politicians and a biased media who will be.