Trump’s Cabinet and Government Failures

During his second term, Donald Trump appointed unqualified extremists and loyalists to key government positions. Spineless Republican senators, fearing his retaliation, approved them without resistance.

As predicted, their incompetence is becoming clear. Trumps appointees are not prepared to run our government agencies and their compulsion to impress Trump is causing chaos.

This week, Trump ordered military strikes against the Iran-backed Houthi group in the country of Yemen. Shockingly, hours before the attack, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and other high ranking security officials including the Secretary of State and the Vice President shared key operational details—including targets and weapons—on an unsecured Signal chat.

Even worse, a journalist from The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in the group by mistake. He later called this security breach "shockingly reckless."  (Source https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-trump-officials-mistakenly-divulged-military-plans-journalist-2025-03-24/). None of the security and cabinet officials questioned his presence on the chat. 

Yikes.  How amateurish and sloppy. This mistake could have put U.S. pilots at risk if the Houthis had intercepted the information and prepared an ambush with their trigger fingers on anti-aircraft missiles. Our military pilots must feel betrayed. Our military allies are not impressed and question our military capabilities.

 As we have learned to expect from Trump.  When reporters asked Trump, he denied knowledge of the incident. We have a president who escapes responsibility by knowing “nothing”.

As we have learned to expect from Trumps people.  Hegseth lashed out at the journalist, calling him deceitful and denied that military information was shared in an unsecured chat. As expected, he blamed President Biden for something.

In another scandal, reports emerged that over 200 people in the U.S. were deported as alleged Venezuelan gang members—despite a federal judge’s order and without due process. The government refuses to disclose details, raising concerns about wrongful deportations. Are the deportees actually gang members or where they simply snatched off the street? What impact is this having on the country of Venezuela? Is this another example of Trump defying the courts? What is the Trump administration hiding about this incompetent fiasco?

In short, Trump’s administration is proving to be exactly what was expected: inexperienced, dishonest, incompetent, liars, and blindly loyal to him.

Americans Are Bracing for Impact Because of Donald Trump’s Erratic Trade Policy – a Trillion-Dollar Extra Tax on Working Families

• Trump has managed to tank the economy before he’s even hit the 100-day mark in office. 

• Many Americans are already dealing with the consequences. Prices are high, and only getting higher. Americans are losing their retirement funds. The economy is on recession watch — and it’s only getting worse. 

• Donald Trump’s new set of tax increases on the American people will wreak havoc on the economy and drive costs up for the average American. 

  • For Michigan’s farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses, these tariffs will drive up prices and threaten to put them out of business — all so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax break. 

• Trump knows the damage his trillion-dollar consumer tax will do to the economy and to working Americans’ wallets, including spikes in grocery costs, gas prices, electronics, clothes, and more.

  • Trump is giving working Michigan families a historic tax increase while giving billionaires another historic tax break — showing us exactly where his priorities lie. 

• Consumers, businesses, and economists have been sounding the alarm on the devastating costs of Trump’s price hikes, and Trump himself admitted his trillion-dollar extra tax on consumers will cause “pain” for working families and he “can’t guarantee” his reckless plans won’t jack up costs. 

• Workers and families in Michigan are going to be hit hardest by Trump’s chaotic economic agenda. From manufacturing jobs to family farms, this tax increase is going to cost Michiganders thousands of dollars every single year. 

  • Michigan farmers and their families are facing economic disaster as Trump’s extremist agenda throws their livelihoods into chaos. 

  • These chaotic on-again off-again tariffs are skyrocketing farmers’ costs, from seeds and soil to the cost of the fuel in their tractors — endangering proud traditions like Michigan cherry season and apple picking. 

Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid

Michigan has about 63 or 64 rural hospitals that may already be operating in the “red” and who will lose funding if Medicare and Medicaid are reduced in funding. Rural Michiganders are concerned that rural hospitals will merge, go bankrupt, or reduce important services. Look what has already happened at the hospital in Grayling.

House Republicans passed a budget reconciliation bill that would cut 4.5 trillion dollars from the budget. Their proposal would increase the national debt about 4 trillion dollars and maintain the tax cuts implemented by Trump in his first term. Elon Musk says if he is going to cut this much money from the budget he will have to cut or reduce spending in entitlement programs, you know what they are. The funding of Medicaid is complicated, if the federal government cuts funding it will force the state to make some difficult decisions about their portion of Medicaid benefits. Newspapers report that about 2.6 million Michiganders are enrolled in Medicaid, likely our grandmothers and other relatives.

Musk claims that many social security recipients don't deserve benefits. Both Trump and Musk say that many dead people are collecting social security. Presumably they have hacked our social security records to prove this.