Fight To The finish: Trump Battles The Federal Leviathan
By Craig Rucker, CFACT | February 11, 2025
Renowned philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once advised that people “battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster.” Donald Trump clearly disagrees with Nietzsche, as can be seen by his remarkable efforts to drain the swamp of all monsters.
After four years battling the Biden Administration efforts to hamstring America and control every aspect of our lives, I for one am nothing short of awed to witness President Donald Trump eviscerate the Biden regulatory and spending legacy. It’s an added bonus to witness the Democrats and their Green collaborators sputter in futility and disarray.
President Biden expanded the Federal Leviathan to unprecedented size, expense and domination. In a mere four years, his legions of unelected bureaucrats issued a record 3,248 proposed and final rules, filling 107,262 Federal Register pages of tiny type. That’s 3.5 times the previous record, which not unsurprisingly was set under President Obama.
Team Biden was so determined to impose its will on average citizens that its minions were still writing final and proposed rules right up to Mr. Trump’s Inauguration Day. The last 38 weren’t even published until the day after he was sworn in!
If all those rules remained in force, they’d cost American families and businesses a whopping $1.8 trillion in cumulative costs. That’s equal to Russia’s entire annual gross national product! Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alone issued edicts that would have cost taxpayers $1.3 trillion.
Thankfully, a reelected and reenergized Donald Trump returned to Washington just in time to end the madness. Within hours of being inaugurated, he signed five Executive Orders that reversed countless Biden Era climate and energy EOs, memoranda, mandates and bans.
Trump 47’s very first order means the Leviathan no longer applies an “all-of-government approach” that compels every federal agency to make climate change, “green, renewable” energy and “climate justice” their “primary concerns.” He also shut down federal offices, websites and grant programs that promoted Climate Armageddon anxieties and greenbacks energy solutions to the non-crisis.
Another Day One Trump EO ends leasing and permitting for new offshore wind installations that would threaten air traffic, shipping, fishing boats. endangered whales and affordable electricity. Onshore wind projects will also be suspended and reviewed for their economic and ecological impacts.
This could force an energy policy rethink by states like California, New York and New Jersey, which had planned to rely on wind and solar backed up by enormous lithium battery systems that would provide less than an hour of statewide electricity and too often erupt in huge chemical fires.
Another order declared that the United States faces a National Energy Emergency. This means the President can expedite the approval and construction of pipelines and other “critical energy infrastructure,” and exploration for and development of oil, gas, coal, uranium, and critical metals and minerals that can be found right here in America.
No longer will the US have to rely on China, Russia, Venezuela and other adversarial nations for vital military, industrial and economic resources.
Yet another Trump order ends mandates, rules and subsidies that effectively require the rapid elimination of gasoline and diesel vehicles, and their replacement by electric models that few consumers want.
President Trump also pulled the USA out of the Paris climate agreement – a second time, after President Biden again made us subject to its oppressive terms.
China, India and other emerging economic powerhouses never had any intention of complying with the lopsided agreement and are building more coal and gas power plants every year. But America and other Western nations were required under the Paris Accord to slash their energy use and economic growth, and rely more and more on expensive, materials-intensive and weather-dependent wind and solar power.
President Trump also ordered a reexamination of EPA’s notorious 2009 Endangerment Finding, which claims human-exhaling, plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide somehow “endangers” our health and welfare.
The mere promise of these presidential decisions has reverberated worldwide. Citibank, Bank of America and virtually every other major US bank withdrew from the UN-sponsored Net Zero Banking Alliance that was formed to push the radical climate agenda. Foreign banks are beginning to follow.
All in all, it has been a remarkable start to Trump’s new term in office. No doubt those on the far Left consider him a Nietzsche-type “monster” and recoil at his early actions. But that is to be expected.
Nietzsche wasn’t necessarily right, and neither are they. However, even if their characterizations were true (which they aren’t), all I can say in response is “Hey, sometimes it takes a monster to beat a monster.”
This article originally appeared at NewsMax
Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others.
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