Quick Takes from the Past 24-48 Hours

The ‘Speed of Trump’ continues.

The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):

1. Notable unquotables from Elizabeth Warren, Dean Phillips, Erick Erickson, Jordan Candler, and more.

Braying Jennies:

This is a fight between the millions of hardworking people who don’t want to get cheated and a handful of billionaires like Elon Musk who want the chance to cheat them. —Senator Elizabeth Warren

You can’t spell felon without Elon. —Congresswoman Delia Ramirez

Race Bait:

Black excellence scares Donald Trump, it scares Stephen Miller, and it scares Elon Musk. Because you know what? Deep down they recognize their own mediocrity.” —Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman

White supremacy is rampant in this country. Just look at the current administration and our own legislative body. —Congresswoman Summer Lee

Sexism Bait:

You had mentioned trying to engage more women in manufacturing. I’m just wondering if just the name ‘manufacturing’ sounds like a guy. —Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

Lack of Self-Awareness Award:

House Democrats believe that urgent action is needed to drive down the high cost of living in the United States of America. —House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries, whose party drove up the cost of living in America.

Friendly Fire:

Democrats are only focused on one thing right now: Mr. Musk. The fact of the matter, he’s quite popular. He has the largest platform in human history, which is, of course, Twitter/X. And I think we’re missing the boat as Democrats. And all I’m saying is that sometimes it’s better to join them and actually play a role in how the strategy works rather than—so pathetically, frankly—try to combat something that clearly is a steamroller. And Democrats are being steamrolled. –former Democrat Congressman Dean Phillips

For the Record:

Liberals are especially bent out of shape that the man leading Trump’s attack on ludicrous government expenditures is Elon Musk. In case you haven’t heard, he is ‘unelected’! You know who else is ‘unelected’? Federal judges. —Ann Coulter

If the president’s authority to make personnel decisions in the executive branch is subject to judicial veto, can a district court judge veto bills? Order Congress to adjourn or to pass a law? Make treaties? Perhaps we could have all 677 district court judges give their own State of the Union addresses next January! —Ann Coulter

I just find it so notable how upset the left is with cuts to foreign aid because of the harm the cuts can cause to others abroad and these same people refused to recognize the harm Biden’s policies were causing to Americans here. —Erick Erickson

Political Futures:

Look, there’s a lot for which Mitch McConnell can be fairly criticized. But pillorying him for voting against a dude whose entire worldview is 99.9% contrary to conservative orthodoxy? Come on. RFK is a nut, even if a broken clock is right twice a day. —Jordan Candler

2. GOP Congressman Introduces Bill to Rename Greenland as ‘Red, White, and Blueland’

The measure, which has been given the name “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025,” was proposed by Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter (R-GA).

Under the act, the newly appointed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum would be given the responsibility of overseeing the transition.

Carter said in a press release:

America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland.

President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to join the freest nation to ever exist when our Negotiator-in-Chief inks this monumental deal.

The President has also questioned whether Denmark, which has controlled Greenland since 1814, has a “legal right” to the territory.

Trump predicts that Greenland’s people will vote to join the U.S. and he warned if Denmark does not give up Greenland, the U.S. will “tariff Denmark at a very high level.”

3. Mass Layoffs Begin Across Multiple Federal Agencies

Trump has tasked Musk and members of DOGE, a temporary government agency, to undertake a massive downsizing of the 2.3 million-strong civilian federal workforce.

Politico reported that termination emails have been sent in the past 72 hours to scores of government workers, mostly recently hired employees still on probation, at:

– the Education Department,

– the Small Business Administration (SBA),

– the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),

– the Office of Personnel Management,

– the General Services Administration (GSA), which manages many federal buildings, and

– the Department of Energy which is set to lay off most or all of its estimated 2,000 probationary employees Thursday.

According to government data, about 280,000 civilian government workers were hired less than two years ago, with most still on probation.

NOTE: The President scored a major legal victory on Wednesday in his efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy, when a federal judge ruled that a buyout offer to government workers could proceed.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday:

About 77,000 workers have signed up for the buyout.

That is equal to 3% of the civilian workforce.

The deadline to take the offer expired on Wednesday evening. Asked why workers were not given extra time to consider the buyout so more would take it, Leavitt said:

I’m not so sure that we didn’t hit the numbers we wanted.

4. Education Department Cuts $881M In Spending, Including $101M in DEI Programs

The message is clear: American education is returning to its foundational purpose—teaching students rather than indoctrinating them.

As more institutions follow suit and additional wasteful programs are identified, taxpayers can expect to see more of their education dollars directed toward actual education.

Nicki Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education, said in response to the spending cut:

DEI was never about ‘equity’ —it was about enforcing ideological conformity and institutionalizing discrimination. Shutting down these wasteful, divisive programs is a win for every student.

As classroom performance metrics hit concerning lows across the nation, questions about federal education spending priorities grew louder. Parents increasingly demanded transparency about where their tax dollars were actually going.

Investigations uncovered particularly egregious examples of government waste, including $1.5 million paid to a contractor simply to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a single mail center.

President Donald Trump’s administration has made eliminating such wasteful spending a priority, launching a comprehensive federal review of DEI teachings and practices in educational institutions receiving federal funding. The DOGE cuts represent a significant victory in this broader initiative to restore sanity to our education system.

The systematic dismantling of wasteful educational bureaucracy marks a turning point in American education. As these reforms continue, parents can look forward to an education system that prioritizes their children’s academic success over ideological agendas – and does so while respecting their hard-earned tax dollars.

5. VP Vance Spanks EU Elites—“If America Can Survive 10 Years of Greta Thunberg’s Scolding, You Guys Can Survive a Few Months of Elon Musk”

VP Vance delivered his first major speech in Europe on Friday speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.

Vance did not hold back reminding the Europeans about their nauseating record of lecturing Americans with bratty children like anti-Semite Greta Thunberg.

Trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. But what no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief, are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t.

6. Trump Closes Money-Wasting Agency That Trains Federal Bureaucrats

President Trump has now eliminated one of the oldest and most entrenched institutions.

With a single executive order, he shut down the Federal Executive Institute (FEI), ending its 55-year mission of training federal bureaucrats in “leadership.”

These programs hide in plain sight. They operate under bland, official-sounding names. They claim to serve the public interest. But their real purpose is simple: creating more bureaucrats to manage other bureaucrats.

From The Post Millennial:

[T]he Federal Executive Institute is an organization in the federal government that is purportedly designed to provide bureaucratic leadership training.

Bureaucratic leadership over the past half-century has led to Federal policies that enlarge and entrench the Washington, D.C., managerial class, a development that has not benefited the American family.

Each one cost taxpayers thousands in training fees, travel expenses, and paid time away from actual work.