The left is having a meltdown over AmeriCorps. Twenty-four states and D.C. are suing the Trump administration for doing exactly what it’s constitutionally empowered to do: streamline bloated government agencies that waste taxpayer dollars.
AmeriCorps has been failing audits for years. Millions in improper payments were identified last year alone. That’s not my opinion; that’s cold, hard data. The agency has also been caught red-handed indoctrinating volunteers with far-left diversity, equity, and inclusion propaganda that fundamentally mischaracterizes American institutions as systemically oppressive. This is a clear violation of Trump’s executive order banning such divisive ideological training in federal agencies.
If AmeriCorps were an efficient, non-partisan organization dedicated solely to community service. Even then, the President has the constitutional authority to reorganize executive agencies. The left conveniently forgets about the unitary executive theory when it doesn’t suit their agenda. But facts don’t care about their feelings, and the fact is, Trump is well within his rights to restore accountability to the executive branch.
The lawsuit claims that Trump “cannot incapacitate the agency’s ability to administer appropriated grants or carry out statutorily assigned duties.” This is a fundamental misunderstanding of executive power. The President is constitutionally obligated to faithfully execute the laws, which includes ensuring that federal agencies operate efficiently and under the law. If an agency is failing to do so, the President not only can but must take corrective action.
The left’s hysterical claims about the impact of these changes. They argue that terminating $400 million in grants will “shutter more than 1,000 programs” and end the service of “more than 32,000 AmeriCorps volunteers.” But here’s what they’re not telling you: many of these programs duplicate services already provided by private charities and faith-based organizations. The free market and civil society can handle these needs more efficiently without the heavy hand of government intervention.
The number of people affected by these changes is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall U.S. workforce. And let’s not forget that these are volunteers, not career federal employees. The idea that this is some kind of massive economic disruption is simply not supported by the data.
In conclusion, the Trump administration is doing exactly what it was elected to do: drain the swamp and cut wasteful government spending. If the left truly cared about community service and volunteerism, they’d support empowering local communities and private organizations to meet these needs, not cling desperately to inefficient federal programs. But that would require them to abandon their core belief in big government as the solution to every problem.
