Trump Dismantling USAID and Other Agencies is the Populist Movement at its Best

Trump has triangulated his administration towards doing what Americans have demanded for decades—cleaning up the federal government.
Finding himself standing astride history and holding a big, beautiful mandate from the voters, President Donald Trump has made his triumphant return to The Swamp to clean things up once and for all. Though Trump repeatedly disavowed Project 2025 throughout the campaign, the mandate from the voters has included significant portions of that very blueprint from the Heritage Foundation. The wild-eyed accusations of what the blueprint actually said bore no relation to reality, but Trump's slashing of waste and fraud in the federal government has caused panic among the institutionalists anyway.
The first of many victims: the slush fund known as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Created with an executive order by President Kennedy in 1961, it has grown beyond all reasonable scope, spending tens of billions of dollars on absurdities overseas. It would not take an act of Congress to delete it.
Trump has begun to act with the echoes of Reagan's Grace Commission, the Tea Party revolution, the spoils system, the Roaring Twenties, and even the Clinton Administration's Reinventing Government initiative ringing across history. And the polls have rewarded him with the highest approval ratings he's ever achieved. The only caution Trump must heed—make it count, and make it work.
The Right Side of History
Regardless of what Trump said about Project 2025, the dire warnings from the radical leftists attempting to prop up the flailing campaign of Kamala Harris didn't dissuade American voters from voting for it. Indeed, the voters gave Trump a victory and a mandate.
President Trump has historical through-lines for his new role as government reformer. Trump can look to the past to understand his reform-minded agenda will create a greater version of America ...