09/03/2026
Apparently, this was the Republican plan:
• Abandon investigations into tax fraud, white-collar crime, illegal guns, drugs, child trafficking, s*x trafficking and domestic violence.
• Drop cases protecting consumers from banks and corporations accused of fraud.
• Gut the CFPB, purge experienced DOJ and FBI professionals, and replace them with loyalists who miss deadlines, submit defective filings and frustrate judges.
• Investigate political enemies while ignoring the crimes these agencies were created to pursue.
• Keep relitigating cases the government repeatedly loses.
• Keep trying to force states to enforce federal immigration policy.
• Keep threatening grants when states refuse to surrender their data.
• Keep targeting transgender people, athletes, schools, doctors and medical records.
• Keep punishing sanctuary cities, despite court after court saying no.
• Keep detaining people with no criminal records or removal orders.
• Cancel legal protections without doing the required review, then run to a friendly Supreme Court.
• Attack birthright citizenship, despite what the Constitution says.
• Impose sweeping tariffs without lawful authority, damage trade relationships and raise prices.
• Hand major agencies to people with no meaningful experience in education, museums, libraries, science, public health or national security.
• Fire inspectors, scientists, food-safety specialists, disease experts and other professionals who keep the public safe.
• Eliminate DEI in the name of “merit,” then install some of the least qualified people imaginable.
• Deregulate the industries responsible for keeping our food, water, medicine, workplaces and financial system safe.
• Spend taxpayer money on propaganda, vanity projects, unusable aircraft and poorly planned fleets of government vehicles.
• Let officials solicit money from industries their agencies regulate while turning public office into reality television.
• Withhold research funding, disrupt universities and delay projects that benefit ordinary Americans.
• Damage the economy, weaken alliances, flirt with unnecessary wars and then pretend none of it was predictable.
After nearly 20 months, what is the grand policy achievement? Another prescription-drug website duplicating services that already exist.
Meanwhile, the country is being hollowed out in real time.
This is not governing. It is grievance, incompetence and corruption dressed up as policy.
And Republicans in Congress did not merely watch it happen. They approved it, funded it, defended it and enabled it.
That is their legacy.