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    Thursday, January 23

    The Morning Briefing: Team Trump Packed a Month’s Worth of Work Into Its First 2 1/2 Days

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    Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is off to participate in the annual Greater Poughkeepsie Flan Festival. 

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    It sure is weird having a president who shows up to work every day and can stay awake past 4 PM, isn’t it? I’m not going to double check this, but I think that Joe Biden had taken three vacations by Wednesday of his first week in office. 

    President Trump’s work ethic is legendary. At 78, he has more energy than most people 50 years younger than he is. Trump has wasted no time tackling his ambitious agenda. There is a lot of clean-up on Aisle Biden that needs to be done to bring some sense of sanity and normalcy back to the country. 

    The list of wrongs that Trump needs to make right is a long one, but he is not at all daunted by the challenge. In fact, as my friend Stephen Green wrote yesterday, Trump has already cleaned up a mess that predated Biden’s presidential reign of error by more than half a century:

    It seems like it was just earlier this morning [It was just earlier this morning, Steve —Editor] that I wrote about President Trump’s executive order eliminating federal DEI efforts. But there’s more to it. Trump’s order also nuked President Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order EO 11246, which established affirmative action, with the stroke of his pen. 

    You may safely assume that it was a beautiful pen. The most gorgeous pen ever used to wipe out six decades of discriminatory hiring and admissions policy, established without a single Congressional vote.

    That’s a bonus gift that I hadn’t expected. There’s a lot of LBJ’s legacy that needs to be dismantled. 

    Naturally, the Democrats will be shrieking “RAAAAACISM!” even louder for a few days. Prior to Trump, that was usually enough to get Republicans to cower and back down. That’s not how the New Trump Order works though. Trump knows that the Dems are going to say that everything the Republicans do is rooted in racism. He also knows that it’s a load of crap. Unlike so many prominent Republicans in the modern media era, this president doesn’t live in fear of what The New York Times might say about him. 

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    So it’s full speed ahead. 

    Trump has surrounded himself with people who have the same kind of vigor that he does. The results are already impressive.

    Regular readers here know that the insanity on our southern border was the overwhelming top issue of mine in last year’s election. Trump’s policies regarding that began working before he was even sworn in. Athena reports here that illegals began “self-deporting” themselves in anticipation of Trump’s border crackdown. 

    New border czar Tom Homan had been making the media rounds during the transition period and promising to waste no time in getting real work done. He hasn’t disappointed. This is from Catherine:

    Donald Trump’s new border czar got right down to business, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already arrested more than 300 serious illegal alien criminals, including murderers and rapists.

    ICE agents are very good at their jobs. Unfortunately, Democrats never let them do those jobs properly when they’re in power. Low morale at ICE during the Biden years was well documented. 

    We’ve seen a lot of grandstanding from Democratic mayors and governors since the election who have promised to fight the Trump 47 administration’s immigration policies. Over at HotAir, my friend Ed Morrissey writes that Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove has served notice to the loudmouth sanctuary crowd, ordering federal prosecutors to investigate any officials who stand in the administration’s way. 

    Here’s more from Ed on just how serious the new and improved Department of Justice is:

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    Now this kind of obstruction, which was always illegal, will have a high cost for the officeholders in “sanctuary” cities and states. Some might be willing to face federal prosecutors over their activism, but after one or two actually get charged, look for these officeholders to switch to a much less substantial and far more symbolic method of protest. And just to make sure this policy sticks, note that Bove now requires all prosecutors who decline to charge obstruction to file an immediate report with the DoJ to review that decision. That should incentivize some enthusiasm for this new policy.

    That’s right, the United States Dept. of Justice is back to chasing the real bad guys. 

    We’ve been discussing all throughout the transition period the past couple of months that there was a very different feel to the Trump 47 administration that was taking shape. There’s the sense of urgency, of course, which is already on display. The biggest difference, however, is that Trump has surrounded himself with much better people this time around. They’re adults who are serious about their jobs and want to do them well. A lot of the people in the Trump 45 administration seemed like they only wanted the gigs to they could get fired and write tell-all books. 

    I can hardly wait to see how much the country has changed by this time next week. 

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