Non-governmental organizations have played a significant role in Barack Obama's political endeavors. He has said they are important tools for bringing about what he calls a "fundamental transformation of the United States." Under Obama, the influence of these often left-leaning organizations has grown within the federal government, molding its operations away from the American people's interests and, quite often, into the arms of the unfriendly federal leviathan.
Obama's Vision and NGO Power.
When Barack Obama became president in 2009, he hoped to bring about deep changes in the fabric of America. Obama's vision saw NGOs playing a central role. In fact, by the time Obama reached the White House, these "non-governmental organizations" had morphed into powerful entities with the ability to influence legislation, regulatory frameworks, and even the makeup of government bureaus—always under the guise of promoting the public good.
The federal government is now infested with woke ideology. This is due in large part to the NGOs I mentioned earlier. Their influence has, for some time now, been evident to anyone who has thought reasonably and seriously about the matter. These NGOs have been placing people in the government who share their particular interests, and, as a result, the public sector has become a space that champions these very special interests.
Why President Trump Wants to End NGO Funding
President Trump has a very clear reason for wanting not just to cut, but to end, funding for NGOs. In his view, NGOs are not accountable directly to the electorate, and yet they have a powerful and undemocratic influence on policy-making at the national level. They are, in effect, using taxpayer money to operate outside the reach of our democracy. Trump's argument is that NGOs have too much influence in governance as it is; why should we as a people fund them? If they are not funded by us, then we in effect have no way of controlling their influence, which seems a pretty key principle in our governance.
Confronting the Federal Bureaucracy.
Moreover, many federal personnel actively work to oppose the Trump administration and prevent it from executing the mandate given by the American people. Trump says these people should be removed from their jobs. Meanwhile, the spirited opposition to Trump in the federal workforce during his first term turned a number of federal employees into Trump antagonists, some of whom volunteered or signed petitions against him. Beyond the obvious personal electricity flowing through the opposition in the rank and file, we also have to account for the opposition housed in many of the rank-and-file federal agencies.
A Call for Action.
It's high time the federal government addressed the woke takeover it has undergone. The United States can begin to undo the far-left ideologue stranglehold over the administrative state by cutting off the funds flowing to influential NGOs and by terminating problematic federal employees. Ensuring that there are no reestablished networks of influential federal employees is a vital part of this process. We are not likely to succeed at any of this unless we work at it over a sustained course of time. The period of a single presidential term is a giddy, halting march against the influences of far-left ideologues, taken not only in the name of democracy but also in the name of a government that operates under the principles of transparency and accountability.
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