Iran War Aside, Here Are Two Very Good Things Trump Is Doing Domestically
It can feel pretty bleak right now, what with gas prices nearly 50 percent higher than last year (don’t worry, I’m assured over and over that the war on Israel’s behalf is worth it!). But this administration is still doing some very important things that deserve notice. Here are two big ones.
Kicking millions of people off food stamps. The Wall Street Journal last week reported that new federal work requirements have resulted in more than three million people having their “food assistance” (free money to buy sugary sodas and bags of chips) terminated. That’s thanks to President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed last year, and now people who don’t have children and who aren’t disabled actually have to work or even just volunteer for something if they want their treats.
There have been some dramatic results, including a 50 percent drop in food stamp enrollment in Arizona, according to the Journal. Mind you, this comes after the previous administration turbocharged the program in 2021, increasing recipient benefits by 25 percent from what they were. That was the largest expansion in history. Enough is enough with the welfare. Keep going, President Trump!
Further ending the asylum scam. Far more important than putting up a wall that’s even a thousand feet high is halting the obscene flow of foreigners setting a single toe on U.S. soil and earning an automatic, indefinite right to stay by way of the magic word: asylum. So absurd is the scheme that the Supreme Court is currently deliberating whether a foreigner can secure that right by claiming asylum without even being on American territory.
But the Trump administration has taken steps to stop it, and The Washington Post reported last week that visas to the U.S. will be denied to foreigners who don’t first formally affirm that they are not in fear of their own country’s government. In other words, their intent in visiting America is not to claim asylum in hopes of staying once they arrive.
During Trump’s first term, asylum claims, or “claims of credible fear,” increased each year by the tens of thousands, tripling between 2017 and 2019. The word had gotten out south of the border that sneaking onto American soil and saying the magic word kicked in a years-long process of court dates and appeals, all with legal protection to stay in the U.S. while it played out.
The Post reported that the State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio has instructed U.S. consulars abroad to ask all nonimmigrant visa applicants whether they currently experience harm in their own countries and whether they would fear returning home. “Visa applicants must respond verbally with a ‘no’ to both questions for the consular officer to continue with visa issuance,” the directive said, according to the Post.
A person named Jeremy Konyndyk, described as president of the group Refugees International, was quoted in the article accusing the administration of “trying to systematically demolish any means by which a persecuted person could seek protection and safety in the United States.” If that’s the intent, it has my full endorsement.
Virtually none of these people are “persecuted.” They’re from countries with corrupted or inept governments that, nine times out of ten, they voted for. Now that their homes are surrounded by the squalor they chose, they want to come here and get loaded up with welfare, which Democrats eagerly oblige, all while doing nothing to assimilate. This is how we ended up with “Little Mogadishu” Minneapolis, where we imported an endless string of Somalis, who now scam the American taxpayer to the tune of billions. Then they elected the nation’s most ungrateful refugee to Congress. That all needs to end yesterday.
And so, while it might feel sometimes like we’re swirling in a toilet bowl, just remember, there are good things happening.
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