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• People claim he has broken all his campaign promises, they claim he has abandoned the MAGA base and so on.
• Maggie stumbled upon a story this morning that I found interesting.

HEADLINE: A President at Full Speed — and a Congress Asleep at the Wheel by Brian C. Joondeph

• “As of November 25, 2025, President Donald Trump had signed 217 executive orders, 54 memoranda, and 110 proclamations in his second presidential term, which began on January 20, 2025.”

Here are the 3 things Congress codified: 

• 1. Energy, mining, and land-use reforms – a structural shift toward domestic production
• 2. Cost-efficiency, anti-waste, and bureaucracy-reduction measures
• 3. Sweeping immigration and border-security policies
• So what is Congress doing exactly?
• Where did they drop the ball most significantly? 
• 1. Withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization
• 2.  Establishing a digital-asset framework while banning a central bank digital currency (CBDC)
• 3. Ending DEI and gender-ideology indoctrination in K–12 education
• With a majority in the House and Senate, the usual stupid party can only be relied on to screw things up.

HEADLINE: Republican Contract with America by Republican National Committee 

104th Congress Major Reforms

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;

SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;

THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;

FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;

FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;

SIXTH, require committee meetings to